Built on evidence, designed for the real world.
Burnout prevention for teams.
Most workplace wellbeing program treat burnout as a stress problem.
It's a system design problem.
TANK helps your organisation prevent burnout at its source — before it costs you your best people, your reputation, or both.
Teams we've worked with
The risk of burnout is higher than ever — and harder to ignore
Legal Liability
Australian work health and safety law now requires organisations to actively manage psychosocial hazards. "We didn't know" is no longer a viable defence. Senior leaders can be held personally accountable.
Compliance Pressure
Safe Work Australia has identified construction, healthcare, social assistance, and public administration as priority industries for psychosocial risk management. The compliance bar is rising across all sectors.
Talent Drain
Burnout is pushing high performers out of the organisations that need them most. Replacing them costs between six and twenty-four months of their salary — and in healthcare, education, and professional services, the talent pool is already shallow.
Productivity Hit
Chronic stress measurably reduces output and decision quality. But the bigger cost is invisible: the erosion of the judgment, creativity, and care that make your best people valuable in the first place.
Burnout is a system design problem, not a personal failing.
When people burn out, the standard response is to help them manage stress better. That framing locates the problem — and the solution — in the individual. That's why it will never really solve the problem.
The Fuel-Gauge-Terrain framework is TANK's evidence-based model for burnout prevention. Fuel is the balance between stress and recovery. Gauge is your people's ability to read their own signals accurately. Terrain is the work environment — the conditions that make sustainable performance easier or harder.
Prevention that works has to address all three. Individual skills matter. So does the system those individuals are operating in.
Different organisations are at different stages. We offer three entry points, each one designed to create real, measurable change.
Burnout workshop for teams
Best for: organisations that want to understand their risk and equip their people fast. A half-day workshop that gives your team a shared language for burnout, a practical understanding of how stress and recovery actually work, and concrete tools to start applying immediately.
Leading out of Burnout
Best for: managers and team leaders who want to build lasting prevention into how they lead. A six-week leadership development program that builds the practical skills to spot burnout risk early, design recovery into the working week, and create the conditions for sustainable high performance.
Fuel-Gauge-Terrain framework
Best for: HR/WHS leaders, L&D teams, or executives who want to understand the evidence base before committing. TANK's core methodology — an integrated model drawing on stress physiology, recovery research, interoception science, and systems thinking.
Hear from leaders who've worked with us
Eleni Assargiotis
Program Manager, UNSW Founders
"Thank you for the TANK workshop at the 10x Bootcamp last week. We got a lot of great feedback about it, with people saying it was the highlight, and they were glad it was included. We also really enjoyed it as a team."
Catherine Vaara
CEO, Lifeline Mid Coast
“I would recommend TANK in a heartbeat. The framework has made a significant change to how we support each other.”
Brianna Cattenach
National Workers Compensation Strategy Manager, Allianz
“TANK helped our teams talk about burnout without the stigma, and gave us a shared way to manage energy, not just workload.”
Dr Caroline Howe
Founder, HoweSafe
"The TANK program for Fire and Rescue stood out for the way it engaged our audience in practical ways they can take control of their own stress and recovery to prevent burnout, even in the context of a highly demanding and emotionally intense workplace."
Meet the team
Between us, we have close to half a century of experience building systems that work — and the lived experience of leading ourselves and our teams out of burnout. We start from a robust, integrated evidence base, and work with your organisation to build prevention into how you actually operate.
Co-Founder and CEO
Dr Helen Lawson Williams
Helen has 20+ years of experience in consulting and corporate leadership across Bain, Partners in Performance, and Telstra. She holds a PhD in Psychology (Macquarie) and is a certified coach (PCCP, ICCP).
She has designed and led complex, large-scale organisational programs — and built her own system for avoiding burnout after experiencing it firsthand.
Co-Founder and CPTO
Dr Navin Keswani
Navin has worked across multiple start-ups and scale-ups including Reading Eggs, Ambiata, Cogent, and Cartesian Software. He holds a PhD in Mathematics (Maryland) and has over 20 years of experience in data engineering, web development, privacy, and security.
He brings the systems thinking and technical rigour that make TANK's approach different.
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The Burnout Risk Audit is a free tool that helps you identify where your team's burnout risk is highest, and which levers are most likely to move it. If you're not sure whether the problem is load, recovery, or the system itself, this is the fastest way to find out. It will help you understand:
- Whether your leaders have the skills to spot chronic stress early
- Where meeting culture, workload distribution, or always-on norms are steadily draining your team
- Which psychosocial hazards your organisation may be underestimating
The Burnout Risk Audit is a free tool that helps you identify where your team's burnout risk is highest — and which lever is most likely to move it.
Talk to us
If you'd like to discuss running a workshop, the Leading out of Burnout program, or something more tailored for your organisation, contact us here.