Too Busy to Be Burned Out!: The Risk Professional’s Journey to Balance and Well-Being

Event Schedule by Time Zone: 
Pacific: 10 AM to 11 AM | Mountain: 11 AM to 12 PM | Central: 12 PM to 1 PM | Eastern: 1 PM to 2 PM

Risk professionals pride themselves on resilience, problem-solving, and constant availability. Unfortunately, they often manage these crises and support others without recognizing their own emotional strain and self-imposed expectations of perfection. This creates an all-too familiar paradox: high achieving leaders feel “too busy to be burned out,” even as their capacity steadily declines. In this session Gregg Timmons shares a candid account of reaching professional burnout and rediscovering what it means to lead - and live - with clarity, balance, and purpose.

Participants will explore the pressures that make risk leaders vulnerable—perfectionism, overcommitment, and blurred boundaries—and learn practical, evidence-based strategies for restoring balance and resilience. Through guided reflection, whether seasoned or new to the profession, attendees will reconnect with what matters most and begin shaping a more fulfilling and sustainable work-life balance.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and analyze professional demands and self-imposed expectations that contribute to burnout among healthcare professionals.
2. Compare and evaluate evidence-based strategies for reducing burnout and enhancing resilience, including self-awareness, self-care, coaching, and mindfulness.
3. Construct a personalized action plan that integrates motivational drivers, self-assessment reflection, and resilience-building practices to support long-term professional well-being.

Speaker:

Gregg Timmons, RN, MA, JD, CPHRM, FASHRM, is a nurse-attorney with more than four decades of experience across healthcare delivery, risk management, claims, and patient safety. With over 40 years as a nurse and 30 years as a healthcare attorney and risk professional, Gregg’s career spans system risk operations, captive insurance leadership, national healthcare consulting, and frontline clinical practice. He has held senior roles in organizations such as Hawai‘i Pacific Health, Straub Benioff Medical Center, AIG’s Lexington Healthcare Division, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. An ASHRM Fellow and longstanding contributor to the field, Gregg has served as Past President of the California Society for Healthcare Risk Management (CSHRM) and is the founding president of the Hawai‘i Association for Healthcare Risk Management (HAHRM). In these roles, he helped strengthen regional education, build leadership pipelines, and expand professional development for risk and patient safety professionals. After decades spent supporting organizations through crises and transformation, Gregg now works in private consulting. Gregg brings both deep professional expertise and meaningful lived experience to his work—pairing technical knowledge with a genuine commitment to resilience, authenticity, and sustainable leadership in the risk management profession.

Member: $39.00
Non-Member: $99.00