Stanford Business Professor, Leadership Consultant, and Author
Dr. Leah Weiss: Biography at a Glance
- Leah Weiss, Ph.D., MSW, is a teacher, researcher, and meditation expert who teaches a perennially waitlisted course on compassionate leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Dr. Weiss is an expert in workplace anxiety, burnout, resilience, and the role of leadership in addressing mental health and is a women's rights advocate who strives to bring actionable methods for difficult work situations to women at all levels.
- In her book, How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind, she presents practical exercises to approach, relate to, and perform work differently to build resilience and "reclaim your sanity."
- She co-created Grand Rounds, a podcast gathering world-renowned thought leaders to explore purpose and resilience.
- Dr. Weiss speaks about mindfulness as a practice of self-awareness, cultivating belonging and psychological safety, and emotional intelligence - at work and at home.
Biography
Leah Weiss, Ph.D., MSW, is a teacher, researcher, and meditation expert at Stanford University specializing in mindfulness and compassion. She teaches a perennially waitlisted course at Stanford, Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion, and is the Principal Teacher and Trainer for Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training program, founded by the Dalai Lama. She is an expert in workplace anxiety, burnout, resilience, and the role of leadership in addressing mental health. She is also a women's rights advocate who strives to bring actionable methods for difficult work situations to women at all levels.
In her approach, Dr. Weiss speaks about mindfulness as a practice of self-awareness, cultivating belonging and psychological safety, and emotional intelligence - at work and at home. In her first book, How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind, Dr. Weiss presents practical exercises to approach, relate to, and perform work differently to build resilience and "reclaim your sanity."
Combining her work at Stanford and her own research on leadership development, purpose, and compassion, Dr. Weiss has presented to several prominent organizations, including Harvard, Princeton, Smith, and 75 companies across all sectors, including Genentech, Goldman Sachs, NASA, Google, Kaiser Permanente, Young President's Organization, BP, and Intuit. Additionally, her work guides the mental health and well-being strategies of over 85 companies. It has been covered by news outlets, including BBC, the New York Times, TED, the Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review.
Dr. Weiss joined forces with her sister, Jennifer Weiss, M.D., to create the Grand Rounds podcast – a podcast gathering world-renowned thought leaders in the COVID era to explore purpose and resilience amid the pandemic.
Dr. Weiss co-founded Skylyte, a company specializing in using the latest neuroscience and behavior change to empower high-performing leaders and managers to prevent burnout for themselves and their teams.
In her latest book, The Little Book of Bhavana: The Thai secrets of everyday resilience, Dr. Weiss shares the story of how a young soccer team used meditation to survive while trapped in a cave in Thailand and explores how meditation within the framework of Bhavana – mental and spiritual development – works.
Topics
Workplace Burnout: How To Climb Out Of Burnout & What We Can Do To Find Balance In Our Lives
Described by the WHO as “resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” burnout is characterized by “feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion, increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy.” While already a prevalent issue, the COVID-19 pandemic has added fuel to the growing flame – while organizations are proudly touting more productivity, employees are working more hours, taking less time off, and taking on more responsibility (in and out of the workplace). Though the term “burnout” was coined in the 1970s, more recent researchers describe the causes of burnout as collective, and impossible for an individual to fix without a systems perspective. Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.
In this engagement, Dr. Leah Weiss, who created a perennially waitlisted course called “Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion” at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, digs into the root causes of workplace burnout, how organizations and its leaders can better support their people, and how to build resilience in uncertain times – the moments that can rattle the foundations of every organization. With a focus on compassion, Dr. Weiss encourages her audiences to remember we are all human beings and how we can create better workplaces that are emotionally intelligent and mindful.
Reclaim Your Sanity: Lessons On Resilience, Compassion, Self-Care
Despite what is often taught, self-criticism is detrimental to productivity. Self-criticism causes you to procrastinate and hide from your mistakes rather than correct them. It also harms your relationships with colleagues rather than improving them. Contrary to what we have been brought up to believe, self-hate – manifested as an inability to tolerate failure – impedes success and hinders you from the motivation to do better. Conversely, self-compassion fosters reduced procrastination and a greater ability to accept and learn from failure and critical feedback.
In this event, Dr. Leah Weiss, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind, invites audiences to relearn the path to productivity and success. With her experience training thousands of executives, team leaders, students, veterans, and Silicon Valley’s best and brightest in mindfulness and years of personal and academic mindfulness research, Dr. Weiss is an expert on the connection of mindfulness, self-compassion, and resilience. After this session, audiences will walk away empowered and able to apply strategies and practices at individual or organizational levels to navigate challenges in healthy and positive ways that foster growth and success.
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