The Left of Burnout podcast is produced by John Allison, a British Army veteran with 24 years of service.  Upon retirement he became health and wellbeing manager for two large London-based advertising agencies.  Five years later, in 2017, he started holistic wellbeing service Motion to Mind™ and developed the 4M Framework™ for health and happiness.  More recently he launched a groundbreaking modular program, Stress Injury Prevention Training™ (SIPT™) to provide employers with a new program to support employees in work and in life. 

The term Left of Burnout is a take on the phrase Left of Bang, which was used to describe a preventative approach to tackling the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) war in Iraq. Rather than focusing on the smoking hole in the ground the aim was to look far Left of Bang and deny funding, resources to prevent bombs from being fabricated and emplaced in the first instance. John Allison specialised in bomb disposal with the Royal Engineers and Weapons Intelligence with the Intelligence Corps.

Left of Burnout is a phrase coined by John Allison and is a take on the term Left of Boom or Left of Bang which was used to describe a preventative approach to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat in Iraq when John served as Intelligence Officer - Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) Baghdad.

Stress related ill-health can be visualised as being on a continuum, from being well on the far left, to being mildly irritated, to dealing with anxiety, depression, traumatic stress injury, burnout and psychosis at the far right hand end of the continuum. Helping people to empower themselves to keep far, far left of burnout and stay well, is the aim of the show.