To keep empathy from becoming a buzzword, this expert says, HR needs to help their orgs embed the concept in leadership and ...

Although it can sometimes be misused, empathy is a generally valuable approach to take with other people—including at work. Often, when people are upset or frustrated, they first want to be heard and ...

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 ...

For the past few months, we’ve looked at how my angel of a dog taught me to become more… patient, kind, accepting and authentic. In our final part of this series, we discuss what Raffi taught me about ...

Amidst swift socio-political change, workplaces are increasingly seen as spaces where people seek care, concern, and connection from others. But workplace empathy appears to be in short supply. At the ...

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 ...

When people become hyper focused on their own needs and responsibilities, it’s tough to see what others are dealing with and the simple act of empathy can get lost. This is especially true in the ...

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 ...