Developing Heart-Centered Leaders

Creating Emotionally Resiliant Cultures

“Once leaders confront [burnout] at an organizational level... they can reduce burnout and raise productivity.”

-Harvard Business Review

Meet Glum Rivers

Kellen Glum and Ryan Rivers have over 20 years combined experience working in behavior science and are dedicated to developing heart centered leaders who transform healthcare by creating emotionally resilient cultures.

Our unique training has been subjected to rigorous evaluation through various randomized control trials showing that it elicits significant and long-term improvements in employees’ psychological health.

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The Glum Rivers Podcast

Welcome to Glum Rivers Podcast where we explore various leadership principles through the lens of behavior science. You will learn ways to stop struggling, avoiding or controlling unwanted emotions and become more open, aware, and engaged as a leader to improve staff satisfaction, retention, and productivity. We achieve this by empowering you, as a heart-centered leader, with evidence based techniques, to create emotionally resilient cultures.

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Leading from Outside The Box

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Explore the familiar concepts of Leadership and Self-Deception through the lens of Behavioral science to discover practical, evidenced based techniques to get and stay “out of the box.”

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What we are doing for burnout is not working

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Large multi-national studies have shown similar training to improve many work related factors.

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"Ryan provided a service that I did not know I needed. It was very brief and quite simple, but extremely effective. I recommend Ryan’s services without any reservation."

-Matt Lovelace, Physician Assistant

“I highly recommend Ryan's services. His outlook on burnout in the healthcare setting is a much-needed vision for our healthcare providers.”

-Kelly Andersen, Director of Nursing

"On 2 separate occasions I faced acute stress and did not feel competent to continue working. Ryan really helped me come back to a place of emotional control and safety. Ryan really is irreplaceable."

-Trevor Mauzy, Physical Therapist

Reference Links:

Pingo, J.C., Dixon, M.R. & Paliliunas, D. An Examination of the Intervention-Enhancing Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy–Based Training on Direct Service Professionals’ Performance in the Workplace. Behav Analysis Practice 15, 192–202 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-018-00275-9

Gaupp, R., Walter, M., Bader, K., Benoy, C., & Lang, U. E. (2020). A two-day acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) workshop increases presence and work functioning in healthcare workers. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 861.

O'Brien, William H., et al. "Group-based acceptance and commitment therapy for nurses and nurse aides working in long-term care residential settings." The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 25.7 (2019): 753-761.