This Isn't Working

This Isn’t Working (2025) uncovers how patriarchal workplace structures create impossible double standards for women leaders, causing chronic stress and burnout that no amount of individual resilience can overcome. It offers a playbook for recognizing these systemic patterns, developing protective strategies, building collective power, and ultimately reshaping organizations to value human sustainability alongside business success. 

• Reformed “lean-iners” who followed all the advice but hit invisible walls anyway
• Exhausted optimists who still believe in change but need sustainable ways to create it
• Anyone who genuinely wants to understand and address workplace inequality

Meghan French Dunbar is an entrepreneur, business journalist, and women’s leadership expert who cofounded and served as CEO of Conscious Company Media, a media company dedicated to purpose-driven businesses. She created the World-Changing Women’s Summit, hosts the Better Than This podcast, and writes for outlets including Forbes and Inc.