Boundaries Without Burnout: How to Protect Your Energy and Still Be Taken Seriously
Join us for the October edition of WiTWA’s Ignite Breakfast Series: a welcoming, community-driven space where women (and allies of all genders) come together to build genuine connections, exchange ideas, and learn from leaders who are shaping the future of technology, business and leadership.
For our final breakfast event of 2026, we’re exploring something that can make a powerful difference to both your career and your wellbeing: boundaries.
If you’re serious about leading well (and living well!), boundaries aren’t optional; they’re essential. Yet in a world that rewards being “always on” and “always available”, setting them can feel uncomfortable, and even risky.
But clear boundaries aren’t career-limiting. They’re career-defining, and when done effectively, they can accelerate your leadership potential.
✨ Featured Spark Session
Boundaries Without Burnout: How to Protect Your Energy and Still Be Taken Seriously
with Claire Seeber
- How do you protect your time and energy without feeling like you’re letting people down?
- How do you say no — or not right now — while still being seen as committed, capable and ambitious?
- And how do you stop other people’s priorities from automatically becoming your own?
In this practical Spark Session, Claire Seeber will explore how setting clear, effective boundaries can become a strategic leadership skill rather than something that holds your career back.
You’ll explore:
➡️ Why boundaries aren’t selfish; they’re a strategic leadership skill
➡️ How to say yes on your terms (not everyone else’s timelines)
➡️ Ways to protect your energy AND elevate your impact
➡️ Scripts, strategies and mindsets to help you set (and hold!) powerful boundaries
You’ll walk away with real scripts, practical tools and the confidence to start drawing career-defining boundaries that work for you and your leadership.
🌟 Meet the Speaker
Claire Seeber is many things: a career coach, leadership expert, author, speaker, and proud sausage dog mum. She’s also one of Australia’s most in-demand voices, helping women lead in work and life, without selling their souls in the process.
Claire has supported thousands of professionals worldwide in navigating the tricky intersection of ambition, leadership and identity. With her sharp wit, big heart and practical approach, she helps people take bold, meaningful steps forward, especially when they’re stuck at a career or leadership crossroads.
Claire brings over 17 years of experience across business, HR and communications, and has worked with some of the world’s most well-known organisations, including NBC Universal, Mineral Resources, CEOs for Gender Equity, Superdry, Colgate-Palmolive and Chevron.
☕ What to Expect
Come along for a relaxed morning of learning, conversation and meaningful networking with the WiTWA community.
You’ll have the opportunity to hear directly from Claire, reflect on the boundaries you currently have in your work and leadership, and connect with other professionals from Western Australia’s technology, innovation and business community.
This is a practical session designed to give you strategies you can actually use — whether you’re navigating a demanding role, stepping into leadership, managing competing priorities or simply looking for a more sustainable way to succeed.
🎁 What’s Included
🥐 Breakfast networking with the WiTWA community
✨ A practical leadership and career development session with Claire Seeber
🛠️ Real scripts and practical tools for setting and holding boundaries
💡 Strategies to protect your energy while elevating your impact
🤝 Quality networking with professionals from across Western Australia’s technology, innovation and business community
💡 Why Attend?
Being available for everything and everyone isn’t the same as being an effective leader.
Strong boundaries can help you protect your energy, communicate your priorities and create space for the work and opportunities that matter most.
Whether you’re building your career, already leading a team, juggling competing demands or finding it difficult to switch off, this session will give you practical strategies for creating boundaries that support both your wellbeing and your professional impact.
