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VIRTUAL: Overcoming Burnout to Lead with Resilience

A Friends Speaker Series Virtual Author Talk with Jane Chen

2026-08-05 12:00:00 2026-08-05 13:00:00 America/New_York VIRTUAL: Overcoming Burnout to Lead with Resilience Experiencing burnout? Learn how to leverage emotional intelligence and self-compassion to stay grounded and lead through uncertainty in this discussion with bestselling author Jane Chen. Reading Public Library -

Wednesday, August 05
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Experiencing burnout? Learn how to leverage emotional intelligence and self-compassion to stay grounded and lead through uncertainty in this discussion with bestselling author Jane Chen.

Join internationally acclaimed inventor, former CEO, and national bestselling author Jane Chen as she shares her journey from saving over a million babies to overcoming profound burnout. Moving past generic self-help, Jane introduces the Whole-Body Yes—a somatic framework designed to help you leverage the science of emotions to make high-stakes decisions with absolute clarity. Learn to cultivate the emotional intelligence and self-compassion required to stay grounded, beat burnout, and lead through uncertainty with sustainable strength.

Register now to attend and ask the author questions!

 

About the Author:

Jane Chen is an inventor, national bestselling author, and leadership coach who helps leaders and teams build the emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and resilience needed to navigate rapid uncertainty and change. She is the co-founder and former CEO of Embrace Global, an acclaimed social enterprise whose groundbreaking portable incubator has helped impact over one million premature babies across 25 countries. Her work has been featured extensively in The New York Times, Forbes, CNN, Fast Company, and Time Magazine.

This program is brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of the Reading Public Library. Thank you, Friends!


Check out more upcoming virtual author talks and enjoy recordings from past events by exploring our Friends Speaker Series page.

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