Women at Work: From Overload to Capacity

Mid-career often brings greater responsibility, informal leadership, emotional labour and competing demands across work and home. Expectations rarely reduce, even when capacity quietly does.

Women at Work: From Overload to Capacity is a discussion-led workshop exploring pressure, invisible load and burnout in professional roles.

Together, we will consider:

• Why pressure can intensify over time
• What “invisible load” looks like at work
• How functional burnout develops (still functioning, but stretched)
• How sustained cognitive and emotional demand affect capacity
• Practical ways to rethink pressure and workload

This is not a lecture and not therapy. It is a structured, interactive session with expert input, small-group discussion and a panel conversation.

Whether you are a leader, HR professional, founder or experienced member of staff, this workshop is designed to support clearer thinking about capacity at work before crisis point.

£20 per person
Includes tea, coffee and scones.
Places are limited to keep the session interactive.

Sarah and Carol have collaborated to design this workshop, bringing together their expertise in psychology and wellbeing to create a practical and thoughtful space for exploring capacity at work.

About the Speakers

Sarah Lacey

Sarah Lacey is a CBT therapist of 23 years, Level 4 Nutritionist, Menopause coach, and keynote speaker.

Her passion lies in education and early intervention to support individuals before they reach crisis point or burnout.

Founder of Nourish & Nurture, she has created a pioneering business that has transformed the health and wellbeing of thousands of individuals and employees across Northern Ireland. As a multi-award-winning wellbeing specialist, her coaching programmes have successfully bridged the gap between nutrition, mental health, and menopause support, providing clinician-led evidence-based solutions that create lasting change. Her targeted programmes, educational platforms, and corporate wellbeing initiatives have helped over 7,000 individuals improve their health, overcome self-sabotage, and thrive in their daily lives. Through strong long term partnerships with SMEs, she delivers workplace wellness initiatives that reduce stress, improve mental clarity, and foster healthier work environments where individuals can achieve peak performance and wellbeing."

Dr Carol Strahan

Dr Carol Strahan is an Educational Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience working across education and organisational settings. She specialises in staff wellbeing, burnout prevention and emotional load, supporting professionals and leadership teams to recognise sustained pressure before it develops into crisis.

Carol co-founded the Education Authority’s School Staff Wellbeing Project in Northern Ireland, which has trained over 200 schools to strengthen staff capacity and workplace culture. She regularly delivers evidence-informed training to organisations seeking to reduce burnout, improve supervision and build healthier, more realistic approaches to work.

Drawing on her background in occupational psychology and consultancy, Carol designs practical workshops that help individuals and teams rethink pressure, boundaries and capacity in professional roles.

Panel Guest - Jules Black

Jules Black is a leadership and strategy consultant who works with leaders, managers and teams to create clarity, build capability and help organisations move forward in a practical and sustainable way.

Through strategic planning, leadership development and mentoring, Jules supports organisations to turn good intentions into clear direction, stronger ways of working and better outcomes for both people and performance.

A central theme in her work is how organisations support people who step into leadership. Burnout can occur at any level, but it often appears when capable people are promoted into managing others without clear expectations, training or support. Leadership is a different role, not just a bigger job. When roles and workloads aren’t adjusted, individuals carry both operational delivery and responsibility for people, which often leads to pressure and overwhelm.

Jules works with leaders at all levels to create clearer roles, healthier expectations and practical people-management skills, helping organisations build sustainable performance without sacrificing wellbeing.

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