CBD 2015: Compassion in Management & Leadership

All great leaders create suffering. The very best anticipate that fact and respond with compassion. Today, broad-based survey research reveals that our relationship with a direct manager is probably the primary influence on the quality of our workplace experience, yet many managers still overlook the centrality of compassion to their role. Join Monica Worline, compassion at work researcher, in a lively discussion of the new science of compassion and its implications for managerial practice, leadership excellence, and the new world of sustainable competitive advantage that is created through engagement, commitment, and innovation capability fueled by compassion.

Instructor: Monica Worline, PhD, is an organizational psychologist dedicated to research and teaching that brings forward courageous thinking, compassionate leadership, and creating environments that bring people alive in their work. Monica is currently a research scientist at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education in the Stanford School of Medicine as well as an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.