On your next trip, don’t forget to pack your empathy.The practice of empathy — and yes, it’s a practice — is about open-ness, creating an opening in one’s self to another. Empathy requires suspending your judgment of other…

Empathy is an important concept that many leaders do not fully understand the significance of. In this episode, Jesse discusses why empathy is important in learning to lead and engage people, and he explains key skills to hone your sense of empath…

In 2009, I taught the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training Program at Google. My group of Googlers included engineers as well as people from various other technical and non-technical positions. Diverse in temperament and ethnicity, these folks shar…

Following up on  June 7 and June 29  posts on empathy in museums, six museum colleagues from a variety of areas in the field are proposing a session called “The Empathetic Museum”  for the  May 2014 American Al…