Why?
The World Health Organization has declared burnout a workplace phenomenon. With mega mergers, mass layoffs and the fear of AI coming for our jobs, the world needs creativity and human ingenuity more than ever.
But, we can’t be creative when we’re burned out. We can’t be in creative flow when we’re afraid. Growth and innovation suffer.
Who?
Meet Jean Batthany, former Chief Creative Officer at Walmart, Head of Global Creative at Disney, founder of the Art of the Pause.
After 30 years in the business of creativity, agency and brand side, Jean is the pioneer of a new operating system for how we create, lead and work. Regenerative Creativity. To rest without guilt. To create conditions for creative flow. To build psychologically safe cultures brave and bold enough for big ideas, failing forward, innovation and evolution.
Jean has spoken at TEDx, NASA JPL, Cannes and ThinkLA. Her message moves beyond burnout and toxic productivity, toward something more radical and more human. Creativity that restores rather than depletes: people, culture, the planet.
Regenerative Creativity
Cultivating conditions of curiosity
Where ideas flow with abundance
Versus being extracted
Through fear and scarcity
Inspired by nature
Seasons for fields to lie fallow
Seasons of exponential growth
The future of work
Where rest is a right not a reward
Well-being is a metric of success
Burnout is not a byproduct of productivity