07/05/2026
The most expensive line item on your P&L is invisible.
It does not appear in your balance sheet.
It does not get flagged in your board review.
But it is bleeding your organisation quietly — every single quarter.
It is the mental health of your leadership and your workforce.
I have sat across boardrooms in healthcare, fintech, and enterprise businesses. And the pattern is consistent across industries, across geographies:
High performers are burning out faster than organisations can replace them.
The numbers are no longer anecdotal. Burnout-related attrition, decision fatigue at the C-suite level, and chronic stress-driven underperformance are now measurable, documented, and directly linked to revenue loss.
The World Economic Forum estimates the global cost of poor mental health at work will reach $16 trillion by 2030.
This is not a wellness issue.
This is a business continuity issue.
As someone who operates at the intersection of healthcare, entrepreneurship, and financial technology — I have seen firsthand what happens when we treat human capital the same way we treat infrastructure: push it hard, ignore maintenance, wait for the breakdown.
The leaders who will win the next decade are the ones building organisations where performance and wellbeing are not competing priorities — they are the same priority.
That mindset shift is one of many conversations I am bringing to IMPACT — my upcoming podcast launching this May.
For the executives, founders, and leaders in my network: what is the one thing your organisation is still getting wrong on this?
— Dr. (h.c.) Abhijeet Singh Sachdev
Entrepreneur · Healthcare Expert · Fintech Leader
