This course is part of The September Fest 2026
Course Details
Performing at Your Best, Not Your Limit is a practical CPD webinar for accountants, tax advisers and finance professionals who want to improve productivity without sacrificing wellbeing.
In demanding professional environments, it is easy to confuse long hours, constant availability and pressure with high performance. Over time, this can reduce focus, weaken boundaries, increase stress and leave professionals operating at their limit rather than at their best.
This session will help participants rethink productivity in a more sustainable way. Through practical tools and reflection exercises, participants will explore how to prioritise high-impact work, manage distractions, protect mental energy and recognise early signs of over-load.
The focus is not on doing more. It is on working with greater clarity, focus and sustainability.
During this webinar, participants will explore:
• The difference between healthy productivity and unsustainable overperformance.
• Common productivity traps for accountants, including multitasking, perfectionism, procrastination, poor boundaries and constant availability.
• A simple framework for prioritising high-impact work.
• Practical focus tools to reduce distractions and support deeper work.
• The early warning signs of stress, overload and burnout.
• How to create a practical action plan for performing sustainably over the following working week.
By the end of the webinar, participants will:
• Understand the difference between sustainable productivity and pushing themselves towards burnout.
• Recognise the habits and working patterns that reduce focus, energy and effectiveness.
• Gain practical tools to prioritise high-impact tasks and manage distractions.
• Identify early warning signs of stress, overload and burnout.
• Leave with a simple personal action plan to perform with more clarity, focus and balance.
Course Level: Foundation
CPD Course Speaker
Edel Walsh Coaching and Consulting
Edel Walsh
Edel Walsh is the owner of Edel Walsh Coaching and Consulting.
She specialises in mental health and well-being coaching and workplace well-being coaching.
Edel is also a student mentor and coach supporting professional accountancy students through their exams. Edel supports her student clients get their exams as quickly as possible while maintaining balance and prioritizing their well-being.
Her corporate career started in KPMG where qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. From there, Edel moved into professional education where she held senior lecturer and examinership roles within the professional accountancy bodies.
She specialises in mental health and well-being coaching and workplace well-being coaching.
Edel is also a student mentor and coach supporting professional accountancy students through their exams. Edel supports her student clients get their exams as quickly as possible while maintaining balance and prioritizing their well-being.
Her corporate career started in KPMG where qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. From there, Edel moved into professional education where she held senior lecturer and examinership roles within the professional accountancy bodies.