Empathy at work matters, but expressing it in the wrong way can leave people feeling unseen or even burned out. Effective leaders practice “wise empathy”: responding with emotional intelligence that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Jane Fonda recently spoke out against the dismissal of empathy as "weak" or "woke," something clicked. We've all heard it—the ...

Empathy is the foundation for connecting with others, and connecting with others is an essential part of entrepreneurship. As John Lennon once said, “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before looking at the way empathy has recently been under attack, it helps to understand what it is and what it isn’t. Professor Gad Saad calls empathy a “noble emotion,” but it’s not an emotion. A ...

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 ...