If you have been searching for information about executive or leadership burnout, you may have noticed that much of what is written describes someone who can no longer function. That picture does not match the experience of most senior leaders I work with. In a qualitative study of twenty Fortune 1,000 chief executives, leaders described continuing to perform and maintaining a composed presence while experiencing significant depletion (Shapiro, 2023). This is one of the main reasons the signs get missed, both by the leaders themselves and by the people around them.