Thursday, 5 March 2026
Practice Management & Business Skills
Building a Resilient Practice: Managing Burnout and Staff Wellbeing
Personal injury work is high stakes, emotionally loaded, and unrelenting. It is no surprise that burnout, compassion fatigue, and staff turnover are becoming business risks in their own right. In this session, Prina Shah will explore how to build a genuinely resilient legal practice: one that protects both your people and your performance.
Drawing on real workplace examples, Prina will unpack:
- how the nature of personal injury work can quietly erode wellbeing over time
- the importance of detachment: without guilt
- practical ways to enable self care (in a non woo woo way) for yourself and your people
- practical strategies leaders can use to understand the current state of their teams, prevent overload, support staff, and create a culture where everyone thrives
You will leave with simple, actionable tools you can use immediately to strengthen resilience, improve staff engagement, and sustain high-quality client outcomes.
Presented by Prina Shah, Global Workplace Transformation Consultant
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Dr Rob Guthrie, Retired Assessor Criminal Injuries Compensation and Adjunct Professor at School of Business Law, Curtin University
Presenters
Dr Rob Guthrie, Retired Assessor Criminal Injuries Compensation and Adjunct Professor at School of Business Law, Curtin University
Rob Guthrie was admitted to practice in 1982 and worked in private practice for about 10 years and continued to practice whilst an academic at Curtin University for 20 years. He practiced, researched and lectured in employment issues and in particular workers compensation matters. He was appointed an Assessor of Criminal Injuries Compensation in 2010 and retired from that position in 2023. Rob is currently on the Board of Circle Green CLC. He is also a trades assistant in his son's carpentry and landscape business, a job for which he has no qualifications.
Prina Shah, Global Workplace Transformation Consultant
Prina Shah is a global coach, consultant, trainer, and speaker who helps leaders and teams make work meaningful and sustainable. With more than two decades of experience across many industries and environments, she partners with organisations to shift culture, reduce burnout, and improve performance without burning people out in the process. Prina is the author of Make Work Meaningful: How To Create a Culture That Leaves a Legacy and host of the Ways to Change the Workplace podcast. Known for her practical, straight-talking style, she works with CEOs, partners, and senior leaders to build cultures where people, wellbeing, and results all matter.
