Burnout & retention consulting · Fort Collins, Colorado
Keep your best people at their best.
For Northern Colorado companies where the best people are carrying too much. Burnout rarely announces itself, it usually looks like your most reliable leader getting a little quieter each quarter. We help you fix the system behind it, so you keep the strong leaders you already have.
The slow fade
It doesn't look like collapse. It looks like your most dependable people fading in place.
The recruiter calls first
Burned-out high performers rarely complain, they have options. One day they take the call, and replacing them costs one-half to 2 times their salary by Gallup's conservative estimate, before you count what walks out with them.
Long before they leave, they've left
The expensive stage isn't the resignation, it's the year before it, when your best person is still on payroll but has stopped bringing you their best. That year usually costs more than the resignation does.
Perks haven't fixed it
That's because perks don't address the causes. Wellness apps and pizza Fridays can't fix overloaded plates, unclear priorities, no time to recover, or managers who were never taught to see the signs.
Services
Start small, and only go as far as your system needs.
Who we work with: owners, CEOs, GMs and HR leads at companies of 20 to 300 people across Northern Colorado and the Front Range.
Start here · Burnout Diagnostics
Detect, Diagnose, Activate
One path with three places to stop. Detect tells you in 2 weeks whether you have a burnout problem, and where. Diagnose finds out why and builds the plan with your leadership team. Activate runs that plan with you for 90 days. Whatever you spend on one step counts toward the next.
Workshops & Talks
The Quiet Burnout Workshop and Talk
A full day with the people who design the load, or a talk for your whole team over lunch. Either way, your leaders leave with a shared language for burnout, and the workshop takes real work off real plates before the room leaves.
Leadership Program
The Sustainable Leader Program
12 weeks for the people leaders you can't afford to lose. They learn to run teams that don't burn out, starting with their own load, and finish by presenting their plan to senior leadership. Afterward, alumni keep going in a quarterly peer circle.
Also from Brightwork · AI Classes
Get time back at work and at home
Live, beginner-friendly classes for busy people who want AI to take real work off their plate. No company sponsor needed, and you can start with a free 45-minute webinar.
About
From running teams to fixing what burns them out.
Brightwork Leadership was founded by Faye Bonomo, who spent 18 years inside high-intensity technical industry, most of it at a Fortune 500 industrial technology corporation, as a product manager, marketing director, and builder of teams that didn't burn out.
The name is a promise. On a ship, the brightwork is the metal that stays bright because someone deliberately maintains it. People are no different, and hoping they stay bright is not a maintenance plan.
Faye Bonomo · Founder
- Built and led a 17-person team to 95%+ engagement, 3 years running. Engagement is the opposite end of the scale from burnout.
- 18 years in demanding technical industry: instrumentation, flow measurement, industrial products. Ran the teams, hit the numbers, kept the people.
- Led teams through acquisitions and organizational change without losing them.
- Workshop design and facilitation as a career-long craft, not a slide deck.
Next step
Start with a conversation.
30 minutes. Bring the names you're worried about losing, or just the sense that your best people are running on empty. We'll tell you honestly whether Detect, a deeper look, or nothing at all is the right next move.
