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When High Performers Start to Fracture: Recognizing Burnout and Prioritizing Your People

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Season 6 | Episode 10:

When High Performers Start to Fracture: Recognizing Burnout and Prioritizing Your People

Deborah Hanus, CEO and Co-Founder of Sparrow

When top employees balance heavy workloads with personal stressors, the constant pressure can quietly lead to burnout and even sudden resignations. Spotting signs early and stepping in with meaningful support helps protect your best talent while keeping your teams strong and steady.

Join us on October 20th at 2 PM ET for the latest episode of HR at the Table®, "When High Performers Start to Fracture: Recognizing Burnout and Prioritizing Your People," featuring Deborah Hanus, CEO and Co-Founder of Sparrow. Drawing on her experience leading Sparrow's high-tech, high-touch approach to employee leave management, Deborah will share practical approaches for identifying overload and supporting key team members through demanding life transitions.

Explore Ways to:

  • Identify early warning signs of strain and burnout in high performers before productivity and retention drop.
  • Structure leave policies and workload support that protect high performers from burnout.
  • Embed retention-focused practices into your organizational policy to build long-term trust, loyalty, and workforce stability.

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Meet this episode's expert guest:

Deborah Hanus

CEO and Co-Founder of Sparrow

Deborah Hanus is the CEO and Cofounder of Sparrow, the first high-tech, high-touch leave management solution to help employers care for their people. Sparrow manages federal, state, and local leave compliance making leave stress-free for human resources, payroll, compliance, managers, and employees. Deborah earned engineering degrees from MIT, was a Fulbright Scholar, and started a Ph.D. in AI at Harvard. Under her leadership, Sparrow has quickly grown to impact hundreds of thousands of lives and has saved its customers more than $400M in payroll costs.

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