Stanford University’s Dr. Leah Weiss knows a thing or two about how to find your purpose at work - in fact, she just wrote a book about it (“How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind”). Not only is finding your purpose an effective strategy for loving the work that you do, it’s also the best way to increase your productivity, produce excellent results, and spend the 90,000 hours of your life that you do spend working knowing that your work is important. Dr. Weiss will provide useful and effective tips that you can use today to make your work-life better today.
- Learn useful tips to make your work-life better today
- Discover why finding your purpose is an effective strategy for loving the work that you do
- Hear practical advice on finding greater satisfaction and success at work
- Learn how reflection helps us learn and grow
Bio: 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.
Her first book, “How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind” (HarperWave) focuses on developing compassionate and soft skill-based leadership while also offering research-backed actionable steps towards finding purpose at work. Find out more at https://leahweissphd.com/
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