Apply Empathy in 2023 with our NEW Speaker: Michael Ventura
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Our roster continues to grow this year with our resident expert on empathic leadership: Michael Ventura.
For over two decades, Michael Ventura has worked as a leader, facilitator, and educator with a mission to demystify empathy. Founder of award-winning strategy and design firm Sub Rosa, Michael has built his career working with iconic brands and institutions such as General Electric, Google, Nike, Warby Parker, and also The United Nations and the Obama Administration, and offers entrepreneurs and executives a radical new way forward.
Michael's strategies have helped guide top leaders and their teams toward feeling, thinking, and acting with greater curiosity, and a willingness to better understand one’s inner and outer worlds. His practice draws from philosophical and ancestral wisdom while also incorporating thought-provoking psychological and personal development techniques that offer real, adoptable skills and behaviors. Michael will help you elevate your leadership skills, improve your management skills, and build an authentic brand that connects with customers.
“ The most neglected fact in business is we’re all human. Michael Ventura makes a powerful argument that empathy is the secret sauce of 21st century business. The more digital we get, the more empathy we need.”
His first book, Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership, shares “how to unlock our ability to design solutions, spark innovation, and solve tough challenges with empathy at the center” (Arianna Huffington). Concepts and tools from this book have been embraced by influential, respected organizations from the ACLU, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and Nike. His work focuses on helping leaders and their teams to practice empathy as a means to deepen connections and catalyze change. Applied Empathy presents real strategies on how to make lasting connections and evolve your business internally (your employees, culture, and product/services) as well as externally (your brand, consumers, and value). If you want to connect to the people you work with, you have to understand them first. Michael can help.
IN THE MEDIA
Entrepreneur and author Michael Ventura has dedicated his career to exploring how empathy can make us better leaders, collaborators, and contributors to society. In his 99U talk, Michael explains that the practice of empathy “isn’t about being nice” — it’s about deep understanding, and learning to apply that understanding to incredibly effective ends.
The work of strategy and design firm Sub Rosa is rooted in the practice of applied empathy. In this workshop, Founder & CEO Michael Ventura helps us explore the different aspects of empathy, identify our empathic archetypes, and ask ourselves probing questions to unlock greater creative thinking.
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