Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It
There’s a name for what you’ve been carrying. And it isn’t Burnout.
In this first of five episodes, host, Charlene Norman draws a distinction most leaders have never heard between moral injustice (the event that hits you) and moral injury (what it leaves behind). Drawing on three decades inside extractive industries, her own 2008 recession story, and research that emerged from the aftermath of the Vietnam War, she maps five ways moral injustice shows up in business and makes the case that naming what’s actually happening is the first step toward something better.
Three things you’ll take away:
– The difference between moral injustice and moral injury and why that distinction changes everything about how you understand your own exhaustion
– Five specific ways ethical rupture shows up for business and institutional leaders, with real examples from the inside
– Why the question isn’t whether you’re broken. Its whether you have the right words yet
Next week: clinical psychologist Dr. Debra Borys joins the conversation on what moving forward actually requires.
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