A burnout coach for the business owner who looks fine and is running on empty.
You are still hitting your numbers. You are also wired, tired, and short at home. You are not lazy. You are just cooked. This is burnout coaching across Southeast Queensland that fixes the source, how you work, recover, decide, and switch off, before you hit the wall.
You look fine. Inside, the tank is empty.
From the outside you look fine. But you are running on willpower now, not fuel. You are not lazy. You are cooked.
You tell yourself you are fine, because the numbers are still fine. So you push through, the way you always have. You answer emails at 9pm, because that is the only quiet hour you get. You are wired and tired at the same time. Busy is not the same as fine.
You crash on the couch and still cannot sleep. You snap at the people you love over nothing. You are at the dinner table but your head is still at work. The kids clock it before you do.
So you book the holiday. She'll be right. You come back rested for about four days, then the same week swallows you again. The break was never the problem. You are running yourself down.
Burnout coach, therapist, or just take a break?
A therapist helps you understand and process how you feel, and that work has real value. A holiday gives you a few days off. The tank only holds so much, and you cannot refill it in four days off. Neither one changes the week you walk back into.
A burnout coach changes the daily operating reality. We do not just talk about the stress. We rebuild how you work, recover, decide, and shut down, so the load stops piling up faster than you can clear it.
This is not therapy and it is not just rest. It is behavioural change at the source. Fix the system and the symptoms ease, because the thing producing them is gone.
Evidence, not opinion.
Yannick has not been through burnout himself. He spent his PhD studying it: why capable people run themselves into the ground, and what actually reverses it. The way out is a method, not a war story.
Dr Yannick van Hierden holds a PhD in behavioural science and developed curriculum for the Griffith MBA, ranked the world's number one "Better World" MBA six years running.
He has worked 1:1 with 70+ business owners, logged around 6,000 hours of meditation, and spent more than a decade and over $250,000 studying how people perform under pressure without breaking. Switched On, the 12 week program, is the result, and it is built on evidence, not opinion.
What changed for people like you.
What comes back when the tank refills, in their own words.
Graeme runs a construction business and knew what to do but could not get himself to do it. In the first month alone he got back hours every day.
"I'm back in the gym consistently, eating better, and honestly just feeling like myself again."
Matty leads a team of 16 and is a dad of six. He was on his phone up to 16 hours a day. Now it's under 3, and he protects 90 minutes of deep work every day. That thinking time showed him a $200,000 project with an outside partner was the wrong path, so they didn't go ahead.
"I come home every single day from work. I open the door and I am now present with my kids."
Other ways we help business owners.
The stuff you're actually wondering.
What is burnout coaching?
Burnout coaching changes how you work, recover, decide, and switch off, so the load stops piling up faster than you clear it. Impacter uses behavioural science to fix the source, not just talk about the stress. Switched On, the 12 week program, rebuilds your week around recovery, a decision filter, a clean shutdown, and energy that holds under pressure.
How is a burnout coach different from a therapist?
A therapist helps you understand and process how you feel, which has real value. A burnout coach changes the daily operating reality, how you work, recover, and shut down. This is not therapy. It is behavioural change applied to your real week, so the thing producing the burnout actually gets fixed.
What are the signs I am burning out?
Wired and tired at the same time, answering emails at 9pm, snapping at the people you love, and your brain cannot switch off, not at dinner, not on the weekend. You still look fine on the outside. You are not lazy, you are cooked, and a holiday rests you for a few days but never fixes it.
Does fixing burnout mean working less?
Not necessarily. It means working in a way you can sustain. We protect recovery, install a decision filter, and put a clean end on the day, so you stop bleeding energy on the wrong things. Most people get hours back a week and feel sharper, without the business slipping.
What does burnout coaching cost and how does it run?
Engagements start at AUD $2,500 plus GST for a 30 day sprint and $7,500 plus GST for Switched On, the 12 week program, run one to one with WHOOP or OURA tracking. According to a PwC and ICF global study, the average return on this kind of coaching is around seven times the investment.
Find out where your energy is leaking.
Take the free 3 minute Energy & Focus Scorecard. It shows you where your energy is going, how hard you are running on empty, and the first thing to fix. If you want to work together after that, you can apply.
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