Human Asset Depreciation™ Why high-performing organizations burn out their best people.
Burnout isn't a personal failure — it's a systems failure. At NABA 2026, Shria Tomlinson took the Discovery Stage for a TED-style talk on the slow erosion that happens when organizations treat people as resources to spend rather than assets to sustain — and how to reverse it before it's irreversible.
Most organizations treat their people as resources to spend. The best ones treat them as assets to sustain. The difference decides who keeps their strongest leaders — and who quietly loses them.
Human Asset Depreciation™ · A framework by Shria TomlinsonAfter the talk
How Elevated Movements helps organizations reverse it.
We help mission-driven organizations build leadership capacity that lasts — embedding sustainable leadership into team culture, daily habits, and operational design, so impact doesn't come at the cost of the people delivering it.
Leadership Development & Facilitation
Workshops, retreats, cohorts, and strengths-based team sessions that help leaders lead with clarity.
Human Sustainability & Culture Strategy
Advisory for organizations navigating burnout, retention pressure, leadership fatigue, and culture strain.
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Pilot-based systems support that returns capacity to leaders. Available by pilot.
Shria Tomlinson
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About the speaker
Shria Tomlinson is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, leadership strategist, and founder of Elevated Movements — a leadership development firm building human sustainability systems inside mission-driven organizations.
Burnout isn't a personal failure. It's a systems failure.
With over 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience, including C-Suite roles, Shria brings the practitioner's perspective and the strategist's eye in equal measure. Her approach integrates CliftonStrengths, the seven types of rest, and her proprietary I.N.T.E.N.T.I.O.N. framework as organizational infrastructure — not wellness add-ons.
Through facilitation, leadership development, strategic partnership, and intentional AI-supported systems, she helps organizations embed sustainable leadership into team culture, daily habits, and operational design.
Trusted across education, labor, youth development, philanthropy & community work
SEIU / CCPU
Boys & Girls Club of San Leandro
Civic News
Posse Foundation
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