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Joe Burton

Retired Founder and CEO of Whil and former President of Headspace

Joe is an entrepreneur in the digital wellness space, retired Founder and CEO of Whil and former President of Headspace, and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. He’s an alumnus of Harvard Business School and a regular contributor to Forbes, Business Insider and The Huffington Post. He’s worked in over 50 countries and travels the world speaking on topics including disruption, culture, resiliency and mindfulness.

Resources by Joe Burton

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How to Help Employees Build Resilience in an Ever-Changing World

In today’s workplace, resilience is a skill employees cannot do without. Even after the pandemic ends, the world will remain

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10 Ways to Improve Your Pandemic Christmas, Charlie Brown

In the 1965 holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful

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Curb the Growing Loneliness Epidemic

Loneliness is an ordinary human experience. We all go through it. Even extraordinary people including Albert Einstein, Lady Gaga, Mother

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Sleep Better During the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is another reminder that good sleep is the foundation of good health. According to the National Heart,

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Tips to Reduce Stress & Anxiety During The COVID-19 Pandemic

If you’re feeling stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, know this first: you’re not alone. With many employees working

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How Great Leaders Can Help Reduce Workplace Stress

Stress—It can be a familiar feeling for many on a day-to-day basis, especially in the workplace. In fact, 40% of

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Here’s Why You Should Encourage Your Employees to Get More Sleep

In most offices, a common response to the greeting, “How are you?” is, “Tired, you?” In fact, it’s such a

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The Real Cost of Workplace Fatigue and How to Fight It With Modern Sleep Training

Have you considered the full effects of workplace fatigue at your organization? What risks are you facing when your employees

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The Key to Curbing Employee Insomnia

When you ask your team members “How are you?” a common response is “Tired, you?”. This response is running rampant

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3 Definitive Ways Mindfulness Encourages Your Sales Team

Sales is one of the most stressful fields to work in. According to a PayScale survey, 73% of people working

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The Key to Closing: A Calm, Resilient, and Focused Sales Team

Sales is often listed among the most stressful fields. Your sales team, especially your sales managers, are tasked with driving

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6 Ways Emotional Intelligence Improves Team Productivity

EQ doesn’t have to be complicated. High-performing teams are built day-by-day through compassion, genuine listening, and respect. Our last article

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The Must-Have Emotional Intelligence Skills for a High-Performing Team

You can’t touch it or hear it, but you know it when you see it. Emotional Intelligence is that soft

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Employee Appreciation Day, Mindfulness and Creating a Culture of Wellbeing

Employers all over the United States celebrate #EmployeeAppreciationDay on March 1 this year. The one day of the year we

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5 Ways You Can Encourage Resilience in Your Employees

Although gratifying, work can be a stressful place. Employees go through a lot on a day-to-day basis keeping up with

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Here’s What Your Workplace Is Missing With Less Resilient Employees

What is stress resilience in the workplace? Stress resilience can be defined as an employee’s ability to bounce back from

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How the Workplace Environment Can Increase Resilience and Impair It Simultaneously

We talk a lot about resilience in the office, how stress is a big cause for employee burnout and what

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Empower Your Employees With a Resilient Mindset

If management asks around the office, most employees are likely to tell you they love their job. It’s up to

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5 Tips to Help Employees Reduce Stress at Work and Build Resilience

Workplace stress is responsible for over $190 billion dollars in annual U.S. healthcare costs, but it’s costly in more ways

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How to Boost Employee Attendance at Work with Mindfulness

Is your organization experiencing an increase in employee absenteeism? You’re not alone. Poor attendance is an indicator of overall employee

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Mindfulness Is Trendy, Just Like Stress

I was at SXSW a few weeks back and attended a barbecue event for Harvard Business School alumni. I’m a

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EQ Is the New IQ, Only Better

Every leader, organization, and family works in a constant state of change. When it comes to helping individuals and company

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Why Professionals Are Sharing More and Trusting Less

The rise of the sharing economy has us opening up and trusting folks in ways that would’ve been hard to

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What Mindfulness Benefits Can I Expect as a Leader?

I travel the world training leaders on mindfulness and emotional intelligence skills. As more organizations move to flatter org charts

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Why You Work Affects How Well You Work

A lot of research has been done confirming that intrinsic motivators (self-worth, personal growth, passion, satisfaction, fun, purpose and meaning,

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Be Like Inigo Montoya

According to the American Osteopathic Association, 72% of Americans feel lonely on a regular basis. In fact, ⅓ report feeling

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How Does an SBNRR Practice Work?

Here’s a foundational mindfulness practice to use whenever you’ve been triggered. This will help you to tame the emotional brain

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What’s Your Best Possible Future?

Most of us tend to predict futures that are consistent with our past. We manifest what we expect to happen.

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Want To Sleep Better? Clean Up Your Sleep Environment

According to the National Sleep Foundation, one-third of people suffer from insomnia. More is being written that poor sleep is

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How Stress Can Destroy Your Company Culture

We can all feel overwhelmed at times when a little too much of everything stresses us out. The pace of

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Multi-tasking Is a Myth!

Stressed out professionals tend to multi-task. It gives us the feeling we’re getting more done. We wear it as a

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Time to Change Your Mindset. Stress Is Good!

In 2017, I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Alia Crum, a professor and researcher at Stanford University’s Mind

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How Does Mindfulness Work?

Get ready to Power Down, Power Up and Power Forward! Let’s break it down. In a nutshell, mindfulness training helps

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What is Mindfulness, Anyway?

Mindfulness this and meditation that; it seems everyone is raving about the benefits of practicing mindfulness in their work and

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All Your Main Mindfulness Questions Answered

Here’s a short introduction to help you get a quick start to your own mindfulness practice.

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The 4 Generation Battle Royale in the Workplace

For the first time ever, we have four generations working together. That’s right, more companies have Millennials working with Gen

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This Is What Happens When You Let Your Kids Plan Your Birthday

I’m about to have my 49th birthday. Which I always spend with my wife and our two young sons. Jackson

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3 Easy Ways to Make Movie Night an Exercise in Mindful Parenting

My wife Sarah and I have two little boys, aged nine and seven. Jackson and Will have given our lives

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Why Am I so Damn Good at Insomnia

Ah, insomnia—my old friend. How is it that I’ve come to know you so well?

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What Is Your True Company Culture?

I recently had the privilege of training 25 companies on mindfulness practices. Part of our session was on corporate culture.

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4 Areas Where Technology Is Helping Human Resources Make a Difference

It’s a great time to be a human resources executive. Over the past five years, technology has entered the previously

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Offset the High Cost of Outsourcing Your Brain to Apps

Want to outsource your thinking and lose more of your cognitive functions? There’s an app for that! Tons. In the

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What’s the Right Age to Try Mindfulness?

Here at RethinkCare, we work with companies all around the world. One of the questions we get most often is,

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Mindfulness for Dealing With Office Villains: The Joker

Do You Have an Office Joker in Your Life? Have they gone out of their way to create arch enemies,

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If Journaling Is for Teenage Girls, Buy Me Some Hair Clips

A few years ago, a friend recommended that I try journaling when I was working in the ad agency world

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Mindfulness Leaves Room for the Jerks in Your Life to Be so Much More

How many people have you written off in your life because you thought they were jerks? Think about it. How

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Why Tough Guys Like Digital Mindfulness Training

I have the good fortune of traveling the world to speak about the health and performance benefits of mindfulness training.

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How Much of Your (Stressed Out) Life Is Coincidental?

When I turned 40, life started catching up to me both physically and mentally. Stress took its toll. Global travel

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The Mindfulness Debate: What Does “Performance” Mean to You?

There’s a heated debate happening in the world of mindfulness. This is being driven by one of the many consumer

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We’re Trusting Each Other More and Less Every Day

From all that’s happened in and after the 2016 Presidential Election, it occurs to me that societal norms are changing

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Survival Tips for Your Love-Hate Relationship with the Holidays

Everyone’s always thrilled for the holidays. But what no one ever brings up is the “joy” of holiday travel. Holiday

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How Being Elvis Reminded Me to be Happy

We just had our office Halloween party. Everyone came dressed to play. It was a wonderful injection of fun energy

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Stressed Out? Try Habit Replacement Therapy

People talk a lot about stress these days. Have you noticed? It’s become a badge of honor. It’s like the

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Need to Boost Wellness Engagement? Treat Your Employees Like Consumers

The increase in employee stress, burnout and skyrocketing health care costs has more companies laser-focused on “wellness” solutions for their

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5 Recovery Tips for Corporate Athletes

Always On, On Demand, 24/7 — these slogans often feel like the default for the modern work experience. We go

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Let’s Make America Chill Again

A year ago, it felt like we were living in the best country in the world. People seemed to be

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Why “No Problem” Is a Big Problem

Here’s a challenge for the day. Every time you or someone else says “Thank you,” make a mental note of

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Mindfulness is About as Religious as Red Wine

The business world is rapidly embracing mindfulness as a “productivity” and “performance” tool, with the thinking that calmer, more focused

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I Don’t Need Mindfulness. But the Guy Next to Me Sure as Hell Does.

I had the pleasure of speaking at Mainstream, a conference hosted by Eventful Group, in Denver a few weeks ago.

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If You’re Unhappy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

I recently had dinner with a global C-level advertising executive friend. Let’s call her Diva, because no one’s real name