April 2026 Comm Convo: Beyond Self-Care to Structural Change

🗓️ Tuesday, April 28th
 12-1 p.m. ET / 9-10 a.m. PT / 4-5 p.m. GMT
 Zoom

​Burnout among biopharma communicators is real, widespread, and worsening—but the solution isn’t more self-care listicles. We’re strategic leaders managing high-stakes work in an ‘always on’ profession where half our peers have considered leaving their jobs this year due to exhaustion (MuckRack 2024 Work-Life Balance report). The challenge is that individual resilience strategies can’t fix organizational problems: unclear processes that create unnecessary work, workload expectations that outpace available resources, and cultures where we’re asked to be perpetually available without systems to protect our teams’ capacity. This Comm Convo opens a practical discussion about the policies, leadership practices, and structural changes we can advocate for and implement to address burnout at its roots, because as leaders with teams, protecting our people’s wellbeing is part of the job.

Why attend

  • ​Address communications-specific burnout drivers that differ from other functions such as the constant availability expectations, public-facing pressure, and crisis mentality that our profession uniquely faces
  • Build the case for organizational changes that reduce burnout by identifying which policies and structural shifts actually work, from realistic staffing models to protected time-off systems that leadership actively models
  • Learn to recognize and address team burnout early by identifying warning signs among direct reports and implementing intervention strategies before high performers burn out or walk out
  • Share strategies for influencing up when you’re not the final decision-maker on staffing, resources, or policies but can still shape how your organization approaches sustainable work practices

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Meet our speakers

Moderator
Arran Attridge

Arran Attridge

Principal

Attridge Communications

Nikki Little

Nikki Little

Chief Marketing Officer

Franco

Barbara Palmer

Barbara Palmer

Perspectives Coach

Broad Perspective Consulting