Meet Our Burnout Coaches
Meet Cara
Cara Knox is the founder and CEO of My Career Coach. She is an expert in communication, known for empowering professionals, leaders, and teams to achieve high performance while maintaining greater physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual energy. In addition to being certified in DISC and other assessments, Cara is a speaker worldwide on the Art of Listening, Communication Styles, Leadership Ethics, and Burnout Prevention.
Soon to be a certified burnout coach, Cara works with a variety of individual clients and workplaces to help them thrive. Her education journey began with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts from Stephens College, followed by a Master of Science in Communications from Boston University. After nearly 30 years of working in corporate communications for public and private companies, Cara founded My Career Coach to help people achieve greater possibilities in their lives. She is an active member of her community and an educator.
Top skills: Burnout Prevention • Communications • Leadership Coaching and Development
Meet Jeanne
Jeanne Gladden is a pioneer in leadership coaching. Jeanne has helped bring out the best in high-performing leaders throughout the years. Jeanne challenges leaders to transform breakdowns into breakthroughs while growing through change and challenge. Jeanne co-founded and led a leadership coaching practice along with her husband and partner, Hank Epstein. In addition to increasing leadership capacity, Jeanne found ways to help high-performing leaders cope with and prevent burnout for themselves and for their teams.
As a burnout prevention specialist, Jeanne offers common-sense wisdom to leaders at all levels. Her no-nonsense, practical approach gets right to the heart of the matter. Jeanne earned a bachelor’s degree in Management from Maryville University in St. Louis, MO, and continued her postgraduate work in marketing. She designed and facilitated hundreds of engaging, energizing workshops across the United States. Jeanne’s clients consistently increase their capacity to lead themselves and engage others. She believes in and brings out the inherent brilliance in those she coaches and mentors.
Top skills: Executive Leadership Coaching and Development • Group Coaching • Burnout Prevention
Meet Hank
As a young chemical engineer, Hank Epstein learned the value of coaching and mentoring when troubleshooting technical challenges in chemical plants throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Hank was recognized for many plant turnarounds, but he credited the individuals closest to the process for their expertise and willingness to experiment. As Hank honed his coaching expertise with front-line leaders and executives, he observed firsthand the high cost of burnout. Hank theorized that we are more susceptible to burnout when dealing with operational or organizational change that we do not understand or have a say in.
Hank went on to coach and develop leadership capacity within diverse business environments through his own private coaching practice.
Hank earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He is certified to teach Situational Leadership and Managerial Analytics, and certified to administer behavioral assessments in DISC, Motivators, Emotional Intelligence, and the Hartman Value Profile. Hank currently coaches and collaborates with executives and leaders to effectively lead change within their organizations. Thoughtful, intentional leadership of change not only yields better business outcomes but also reduces the risk of resistance and burnout among those impacted.
Top skills: Executive Leadership Coaching • Development • Coaching Change Initiatives