The Overload Cure

Lowder Melissa is an energy management consultant, speaker, and former operations executive who spent fifteen years leading high-pressure teams in the professional services industry — and who learned about energy management the hard way, when a severe bout of burnout pushed her to the edge of her own career. What began as a personal recovery project became her professional mission: helping overloaded professionals achieve high performance without sacrificing their health, their relationships, or their capacity for joy.

She combines training in organizational behavior with certification as a professional coach, and her work draws on sleep science, performance psychology, and her own experience rebuilding a sustainable career. Melissa has advised executives and rising leaders at global firms, startups, and nonprofit organizations, and her writing on productivity, boundaries, and burnout prevention has appeared in leading business publications including Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. She speaks regularly at conferences and corporate offsites on sustainable performance, with a particular focus on the leaders most at risk: the reliable ones, the high achievers, the people everyone counts on.

She is a long-distance runner and an enthusiastic home cook, and she lives with her family in Austin, Texas. *The Overload Cure* is her first book.