The Energy Edge: Build Sustainable Energy for High Performance Without Burnout

John Thorson is an energy management coach, author, and speaker who helps working professionals sustain high performance without burning out. After more than a decade in corporate operations and consulting left him exhausted and detached from the work—and the people—he cared about, he rebuilt his own life around the practices in this book. That recovery became the foundation of his work: over the following fifteen years, he refined those practices with clients and teams across industries.

He has advised leaders and teams at Fortune 500 companies, delivered workshops on sleep, focus, and recovery at leadership conferences and corporate offsites, and coached hundreds of executives and managers through burnout recovery and sustainable performance. His approach blends the science of performance with the practical realities of meetings, deadlines, and inboxes, which is why the strategies in *The Energy Edge* are built to survive a normal, imperfect working week.

John lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children, where he practices what he teaches—including a nearly unbreakable Sunday family breakfast and a bedtime he rarely negotiates, even on deadline.