Sharon Steed is a keynote speaker and empathy consultant who has worked with Fortune 500 companies on five continents. She’s the LinkedIn Learning instructor of three empathy courses with over one million views.
Boost productivity, innovation, and morale with empathetic leadershipLeading with Empathy For Dummies offers practical, research-backed strategies for embedding empathy into everyday leadership, from navigating change to building psychologically safe workplaces. Recent research overwhelmingly shows that empathetic leadership retains employees and drives productivity.
Empathy isn’t a personality trait you either have or don’t; it’s a skill you build, lose, and rebuild depending on the day. This cheat sheet is your quick reference for the moments that matter most: when you don’t know what to do, when you’re about to make a mistake without realizing it, or when the words you choose either open a room up or shut it down.