Ep 25. Monica Worline: Awakening Compassion at Work

Monica Worline is the founder and CEO of EnlivenWork, an organization that teaches businesses how to use compassionate leadership to enliven, or humanize and energize, the work they do. She is also a research scientist at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Executive Director of CompassionLab -- the world’s leading research collaboratory focused on compassion in the workplace -- a lecturer at the Ross School of Business, and co-author of Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations. Monica spoke with Stew about the impact compassion can have on improving both employees’ lives and business performance. Monica describes four steps for awakening compassion in the workplace, or in any situation. Any employee at any level who follows these steps can have a powerful effect on their organization’s culture. Stew and Monica talk about how leaders set the tone in most organizations for compassion; even the smallest adjustments can go a long way. In the second half of the conversation, two wonderful callers joined the conversation with poignant and instructive examples of the value of awakening compassion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the Work and Life Podcast with Stew Friedman -- bestselling author, celebrated professor at The Wharton School, and founder of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. Stew is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on cultivating leadership from the point of view of the whole person. On this podcast, Stew talks with a variety of experts -- leading researchers, progressive executives, policy advocates, inspiring educators, and more -- about how to cultivate harmony between work and the rest of your life; that is, your family, your community, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). Conversations in all Work and Life Podcast episodes are taken from broadcasts of Stew's Work and Life Radio Show, which airs weekly on SiriusXM 132, Business Radio Powered by Wharton. Tune in on Mondays at noon Eastern Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.