Transforming Workplace Culture Through Empathy
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
1:00pm to 2:30pm
via Zoom
This event is part of MANP's Realizing Healthy Nonprofits initiative.
Empathy is at the root of connection, communication, collaboration, and engagement - all things that we aim to embody in our nonprofit communities. As staff and volunteers, we seek to understand those we serve through our mission-driven work and continually strive to meet their needs with our programs and services. Are we bringing that same intention to understanding our internal teams? Our partnerships?
Speaker Sharon Steed shines a light on the role of vulnerability and empathy in creating inclusive teams and powerful collaborations. By sharing her own story as a life-long stutterer, Sharon illustrates how cultivating these traits through empathy actions that teams can incorporate into their own practices and help them be better communicators, more focused collaborators, more thoughtful leaders, and creators of environments ripe for inclusion.
How we all work has been changing dramatically and rapidly. Take a pause and join us for an exploration of how an empathy mindset can transform our workplaces and our work to center people, relationships, openness, and innovation.
Through her talk, Sharon will help us:
About Sharon Steed Sharon Steed is an international keynote speaker, author and founder of Communilogue, a corporate empathy and communications consultancy. She is a subject matter expert on empathy at work, helping teams revolutionize the way they communicate, collaborate and approach diversity and inclusion by engaging empathy.
Sharon has spoken at companies and conferences in 17 countries spanning five continents, with a focus on improving team communication and collaboration through engaging empathy and vulnerability as a professional asset. She has given a TEDx talk on empowering insecurities. A lifelong stutterer, Sharon uses her speech impediment to both teach what empathy is and to inspire audiences to engage in empathy actions daily. An author and course instructor for O'Reilly Media, Inc., her eBook Empathy at Work is available in the O’Reilly library. Sharon’s LinkedIn Learning course "Communicating With Empathy" has over 400,000 views. A Midwestern native, she currently lives in Pittsburgh.
Pricing We are offering pay-what-you-can options:
Cost should not be a barrier to attend. For a scholarship, please email us at Learn@NonprofitMaine.org.
Sponsors
Special thanks to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, MEMIC, Northeast Delta Dental, and Wipfli for their support of this special event.
