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Are you OK? Coping with executive stress, avoiding burnout

Nonprofit and association CEOs face a multitude of new stressors. Some that come to mind for Antonio Cortes are massive reductions in federal and private funding; competing workplace expectations from Baby Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z; regulatory changes; and having to reframe DEI initiatives after an organization has heavily invested in them.Cortes is the director of people and organizational strategy for the Washington-based benefits agency OneDigital, and he told CEO Update that recognizing stress is the first step in combating it.Stress can reveal itself visually (a leader who looks fatigued, has bags under their eyes or is not their usual well-groomed self) and behaviorally (showing… Read More