From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Inner Work of Agile Leaders
Presented by Monika Muddamshetty
Trainer, Consultant & Author of Lead As Only You Can: Unwritten & Unarmoured
In Agile environments, leaders are expected to drive transformation, empower teams, and sustain momentum—often without ever being asked, “How are you doing?” This talk flips the script. Burnout is the silent epidemic in leadership. Behind every high-performing team, there’s often a leader stretched thin, constantly holding space, making decisions, and quietly absorbing pressure.
In this session, Monika Muddamshetty, author of Lead Like Only You Can: Unwritten and Unarmored, offers a raw, honest look at what it takes to stay human while leading others. Drawing from her own journey of navigating exhaustion, doubt, and breakthrough moments, she shares practical tools and personal insights to help Agile leaders lead not with frameworks, metrics and velocity, but from within. It’s a call to do the inner work that sustains outer impact.
Key Takeaways:
- Recognize burnout before it breaks them
- Reclaim clarity, purpose, and boundaries
- Lead not from depletion, but from alignment
About Monika Muddamshetty
Leader | Speaker | Instructor | Author
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monikamuddamshetty/
Monika Muddamshetty is a visionary leader and transformation strategist with nearly two decades of experience at the intersection of people, process, and purpose. With a background in engineering and expertise in Agile, project management, and process re-engineering, she has led global teams across the IT, Telecom, and Lottery sectors, driving large-scale transformations and delivering meaningful business outcomes.
Monika has held executive leadership roles, including Director – Agile PMO, and has served on the Board of PMI Pearl City Chapter and the PMI South Asia Champion Advisory Committee. As a long-time global PMI volunteer, she continues to contribute to the advancement of the profession.
She is a PMI-authorised training instructor and holds a wide range of certifications, including PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMO-CP®, SAFe® SPC, Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC), Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and more.
Monika has delivered talks and sessions at various global platforms such as PMI, IIL, Simplilearn, Nokia, Nagarro, and Ramco. Her articles have been featured in international publications.
Through her book Lead As Only You Can, she encourages people to unlearn, unbecome, and unlock the leader within – beyond roles and designations.
She strongly believes in the saying – “Drive the Change you want to see around you!”
Read Monika’s Book, Lead As Only You Can: Unwritten & Unarmoured, here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ7K9KSD
