Stanford Social Innovation Review Webinar: How to be the “Chief Kindness Officer” in Volatile Times: Compassionate Leadership in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
Join Stanford Social Innovation Review for an online webinar where Leah Weiss, a researcher and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, will explore the ways that compassionate leadership can be implemented at all levels of an organization. Weiss will address such questions as:
How are compassion, burnout, and resilience interlinked?
How does compassion reduce the risks of burnout in your teams and your organization?
Why is it important to build resilience in these times?
How can we each be a leader in bringing compassion to the workplace?
Are compassion and your organization’s mission fundamentally incompatible, or can they support each other?
To discuss real-world case studies, Weiss will be joined by Raena Saddler, VP of People and Managing Director at the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation and Ben Baldwin, Youth and Volunteer Programs Manager, National Park Service.
Registration Fee: $69.
Moderator
Eric Nee, Editor-in-Chief, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Eric Nee is the editor-in-chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review, published by the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University, and co-host of the Social Innovation Conversations podcast channel. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the publishing industry, most of it covering the high-tech industry. Before joining Stanford, Nee was a senior writer for Fortune magazine in the Palo Alto, Calif., bureau. He also helped Time Inc. launch eCompany Now (where he was executive editor), which later merged with Business 2.0. Before joining Fortune, Nee launched Forbes magazine’s Silicon Valley bureau, where he was bureau manager. He also served as editor-in-chief of Upside magazine for close to five years.
Speakers
Leah Weiss, PhD, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Researcher, Consultant, & Author
Leah Weiss, Ph.D. is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author. She teaches Compassionate Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she created the perennially-waitlisted course “Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion.” She is a principal teacher and a founding faculty member of Stanford’s “Compassion Cultivation Program,” conceived by the Dalai Lama. She is also the co-founder of Skylyte. Her first book, How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind focuses on developing compassionate and soft skill-based leadership while also offering research-backed actionable steps towards finding purpose at work. It has currently been translated into 7 different languages. Her latest book, Bhavana: Thai Secrets of Everyday Resilience, came out in the U.K. at the end of May.
Raena Saddler, VP of People and Managing Director at the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation
Raena Saddler is the VP of People and Managing Director at the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, the non-profit that runs Lean In & Option B. For the past 5 years, she has helped Lean In launch initiatives that raise awareness on issues critical to advancing women at work, and developed programs to help companies build equal and inclusive workplaces. Prior to joining the foundation, she was the Head of Product at Topix, an online media technology company. Raena holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School studying religion, ethics, and politics. She lives in East Palo Alto with her husband, with whom she is raising three daughters to have a strong sense of social justice and a passion for driving social change on issues impacting women of color.
Ben Baldwin, Youth and Volunteer Programs Manager, National Park Service
Ben Baldwin is currently the Youth and Volunteer Programs Manager for the National Park Service Regions 6, 7, and 8. He serves 8 states and over 90 park units to support 25,000 volunteers and over 4000 youth per year. His job is never the same each day, it includes supporting park staff, providing policy interpretation, assisting with reporting, advocating for park issues, highlighting successful programs and projects, maintaining relationships and managing fund sources. Ben enjoys his opportunity to steward public lands and create an inclusive workplace to support the next generation.
