Dr Jacqueline Kerr, PhD

Dr Jacqueline Kerr PhD is a behavior scientist and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide and received over $56 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to research health behavior change solutions for individuals and communities. Her work is featured in the CDC's Community Guide and she is a member of the AARP Livable Communities advisory board in California. She has over 200 scientific publications and edited The ABC of Behavior Change. Dr Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of burnout, to prevent burnout through comprehensive strategic planning for employee well-being aligned with DEIB, and to create sustainable and impactful organizational change informed by her two decades as a behavior change and implementation scientist and practitioner. Her TEDx talk (How to stop burnout before it starts) explains how burnout is a multi-level problem and provides actionable solutions that we can all use to change the social norms around burnout based on behavior change science. Dr Kerr also supports companies and advocates to use evidence based behavior change strategies to improve their impact. Behavior change is not mission impossible but it helps to think like the mission impossible team. Dr Kerr has also performed stand up and improv comedy.

Sub-specialties:
Overcoming working mom burnout
Burnout and DEIB
Using public health frameworks to solve business problems
Improving policies and programs through implementation science
Preventing burnout in employees
Behavior change science for social impact
Behavior change science for return on investment