Mental Health & Burnout
Understanding how stress, burnout, and emotional strain affect sustained engagement.
Youth-led · Mental Health · PolicySustaining People
Sustaining People
to Sustain Systems
Global Minds Initiative for Mental Health & Policy connects youth mental health, civic engagement, and policy-informed dialogue to build more human-centered systems.
About
About Global Minds
Global Minds Initiative for Mental Health & Policy is a youth-led initiative exploring how mental well-being shapes participation in communities, service organizations, leadership spaces, and civic life. The initiative bridges research-informed dialogue, lived experience, and policy-oriented thinking to better understand how people can remain meaningfully engaged without becoming burned out or disconnected.
Core Focus Areas
Where our work lives
Civic Engagement & Service
Exploring what helps people continue showing up in community, leadership, and service spaces.
Policy & Systems Design
Translating lived experience and dialogue into more supportive, human-centered frameworks.
Current Pilot
Sustaining People to Sustain Systems
A virtual multigenerational dialogue on burnout, connection, and sustained engagement.
Date
Thursday, June 18
Time
5:00–6:30 PM CST
Format
Virtual / Zoom
Audience
Youth, students, working adults, older adults, mental health advocates, service leaders, and community members.
Pilot Structure
How the dialogue unfolds
Step 01
Welcome + Purpose
Step 02
Pre-Reflection Survey
Step 03
Speaker Remarks
Step 04
Guided Multigenerational Discussion
Step 05
Group Reflection + Themes
Step 06
Post-Reflection + Closing
FEATURED
Meet the Speakers
A thoughtful circle of voices bringing perspectives on mental health, service leadership, burnout prevention, and human-centered systems.
Speaker
Zachary Weaver
Zachary Weaver is the president of the Rotaract Club of Newport Beach-Global Service and the director of its Democracy in a Box program. He convenes Rotarians for Civic Participation gatherings and works to strengthen civic engagement through Rotary's Four-Way Test and conversations that help people feel heard. He centers youth leadership as vital to our future peace and sustainability.
Speaker
Sheryl Whitaker
Sheryl Raphael Whitaker is a renowned best-selling author, speaker, and certified executive coach who helps high-achieving leaders stop performing leadership and start living it — with clarity, alignment, and joy. As an ICF-certified executive coach and Founder & CEO of EdenAnthony Elite Talent Solutions LLC, she brings over 35 years of Fortune 500 leadership experience to every engagement.
Speaker
Kristen Crockett
With more than 20 years of experience in leadership and organizational development, Kristen Crockett is a leadership strategist, executive coach, and speaker who helps leaders and organizations see themselves and others from the inside out. She transforms how people and teams lead, connect, and create more impact in life, work, and beyond. She will share a personal story about burnout and the lessons it taught her about creating a legacy without sacrificing well-being.
Founder
Shreya Kumar
Meet the Founder
Shreya Kumar
Shreya Kumar is a youth mental health advocate, TEDx speaker, and founder of Global Minds Initiative for Mental Health & Policy. Her work examines mental health not only as an individual issue, but as a foundation for sustained service, civic participation, and systems change. Drawing from her speaking work at TEDx, RotaryXperience at EarthX, and IYC13, Shreya is building Global Minds as a platform for intergenerational dialogue, youth voice, and policy-informed approaches to more human-centered communities.
TEDx SpeakerYouth Mental Health AdvocateCivic Engagement / Policy AdvocateFounder, Global Minds Initiative
Speaking & Advocacy
Selected talks & appearances
TEDx Talk
It's Okay to Not Be Okay
RotaryXperience at EarthX
Sustaining People to Sustain Systems
IYC13
Women, Youth & Feminist Diplomacy
Get Involved
Join the Initiative
Whether you're interested in membership, pilot dialogues, speaking, partnering, or volunteering — we'd love to hear from you.
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