The job stopped fitting. You’re still good at it. That’s the hard part.

It accumulated. One reasonable yes at a time, until the week filled with work you never actually agreed to.

The Impact Brief is for capable people in higher education and the health professions who became the one everything depends on and want their time and direction back.

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Written by Dr. Shaun Lynch

Clinician, professor and writer on why capable faculty lose control of their work.

How My Writing Helps You

I write for capable people who slowly lost control of what they chose. The role grew, the calendar filled, and somewhere in there the work stopped matching the person doing it.

These essays help you think more clearly about:

The work you took on because you were reliable, and whether it’s still yours to keep.

The decision you’ve quietly settled three times and keep leaving open.

The difference between work you’re building and work you’re only maintaining.

Whether the role still fits the person you’ve become, or just the one you were when you took it.

I write about these because I’ve lived inside most of them. My hope is to make them a little easier for you to see, and to act on, than they were for me.