Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way

As organizations face increasing pressure to balance performance with humanity, leaders are discovering that compassion is not a weakness—it’s a competitive strength. Compassionate leadership builds trust, resilience, and effectiveness across every level of an organization.

Join Rasmus Hougaard, co-author of Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022), and gain research-backed insights and practical tools to lead with care and strength.

What to Expect

Keynote Insights: Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way

Rasmus Hougaard shares strategies and practical guidance on how leaders can balance compassion with wisdom and effectiveness, including:

• Lead with care and strength by proving that compassion and effectiveness are not mutually exclusive.
• Balance compassion and leadership to bring out the very best in employees.
• Make tough decisions wisely—and understand why difficult choices can sometimes be the most compassionate course of action.
• Apply practical tools at any level to lead with humanity, wisdom, and impact.

Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your leadership with a more human approach that inspires trust, performance, and resilience.