When I was 35, a ruptured brain aneurysm nearly killed me. My husband and I had just moved to a new city, bought our first ...

NEW YORK (October 14, 2025)—Empathy at Work: Building Better Businesses Through People-First Leadership by Christopher Kaufman is now available on Amazon and at major booksellers. The book is ...

Empathy has become a baseline expectation of modern leadership, but practiced without judgment it can backfire, leaving ...

We all know the person: the leader who says “yes” to every request, the colleague who’d rather take a work-from-home day than deal with office drama, the manager who spends so much time trying to make ...

The working world is undergoing a wide and constant shift. Technology advancements, the proliferation of remote work and changes in external conditions have altered so many elements of company ...

When Jane Fonda recently spoke out against the dismissal of empathy as "weak" or "woke," something clicked. We've all heard it—the eye-rolling at emotional intelligence, the scoffing at connection as ...

Jill Geisler is the Bill Plante Chair in Leadership and Media Integrity, Loyola University Chicago. Views are her own. I’ve studied and taught leadership, management, and ethics for many years. The ...

5 Ways to Increase Empathy at Work and in Life Source: Ariya J/Shutterstock Leading and living with empathy has never been more important in our world than right now. Empathy is the ability to ...

CEOs are under pressure—I get it. Economic instability, lingering tariffs, AI reshaping the rules, a shifting talent market—the list is long. Every day, we make tough calls to navigate these headwinds ...

Christopher Kaufman releases “Empathy at Work: Building Better Businesses Through People-First Leadership” with Forbes Books. “Empathy at Work: Building Better Businesses Through People-First ...