Job burnout is recognized by the World Health Organization, but there is also caregiver burnout, emotional burnout, and parental burnout that leads to nervous exhaustion. While self-care helps you manage your stress, it does not solve the structural inequalities that create the conditions that cause burnout. We need to use behavior change science to create individual, organizational, and cultural change to prevent burnout. Dr. Jacqueline Kerr is a mom, behavior scientist, and burnout survivor.
She is in the Top 1% of Most Cited Scientists worldwide, and her work has informed the US Center for Disease Control Community Prevention Guide. Dr. Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018. She now hosts the Podcast “Overcoming Working Mom Burnout” where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches, focusing on mental illness. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of working mom burnout and gender bias with individual, organizational, and cultural change through behavior change science.