From Burnout to Breakthrough: The Inner Work of Agile Leaders
Presented by Monika Muddamshetty
Founder, ElevateM
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
Founder, ElevateM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monikamuddamshetty/
https://elevatem.weebly.com
Monika Muddamshetty is a visionary leader and transformation strategist with nearly two decades at the intersection of people, process, and purpose. An engineer by education, she built her career in Agile, Project management, Program and PMO leadership, along with process reengineering and automation — leading global teams across IT, Telecom, Lottery and Gaming to deliver large scale transformations with sustained business impact.
As the founder of ElevateM, Monika provides high impact training, consulting, and speaking — equipping leaders and students to execute with clarity, communicate with impact, and elevate outcomes. She is the author of “Lead As Only You Can,” a practical guide to authentic leadership that invites readers to unlearn, un-become, and unlock the leader within — beyond roles and designations.
Her leadership experience includes serving as Director – Agile PMO at IGT, Board Member of PMI Pearl City Chapter, and member of the PMI South Asia Champion Advisory Committee. A longstanding global PMI volunteer, she continues to advance the project management profession across regions. She is also a PMI Authorized Training Instructor (PMP and ACP). Guided by the philosophy, “Drive the change you want to see around you,” Monika champions practical, people centered change that creates lasting impact.
Read Monika’s Book, Lead As Only You Can: Unwritten & Unarmoured, here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ7K9KSD
