Thursday, September 24, 2020
10:00-11:30 a.m. ET
Free, registration required to obtain login information: http://myumi.ch/BoNzQ
Virtual panel discussion

The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

About the Panel:
As the global pandemic drags on and people around the world struggle to find a “new normal,” so many of us find illness, disease, and loss piling on top of natural disasters, financial ruin, and the long-term suffering wrought by systemic racism and injustice. While we feel called to rise to the moment, it’s no wonder that many of us begin to feel hopeless or helpless to do so. This event is designed to renew our capacity to imagine and enact compassion in the face of the widespread suffering we find all around us.

Join us for an exploration of a science-based view of compassion that meets this moment. We bring together a number of experts who study compassion in organizations with practitioners who are leading for compassion now. Each of our panelists will feed our imagination with stories and fuel our capacity for action with small, actionable strategies that you can use right now. Focused on building our capacity for action, this unique panel structure will leave you with a replenished toolkit full of small moves that will help you find ways to rise to the challenges of leading, learning, and teaching with compassion now.

Curators:
Jane Dutton
Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Emerita Professor of Business Administration and Psychology
University of Michigan
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/people/jane-dutton/

Monica Worline
Lecturer at the Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/people/monica-worline/

Presenters:
Al'ai (LA) Alvarez, MD
Stanford University
https://profiles.stanford.edu/alvarezzzy

Amy Bunch
University of Michigan
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/rising-to-the-moment-presenter-bios/

Tiffany D. Johnson
Georgia Institute of Technology
https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/johnson/index.html

Jason Kanov
Western Washington University
https://cbe.wwu.edu/people/kanovj

Reut Livne-Tarandach
Manhattan College
https://manhattan.edu/campus-directory/rlivnetarandach01

Chris Murchison
Positive Organization Design and Culture Consultant
https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/people/chris-marcell-murchison/

Anne Birgitta Pessi
University of Helsinki
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/anne-birgitta-pessi

Ace Simpson
Brunel University London
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/ace-simpson

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2020-21 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Session Sponsor:
Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management

Promotional Partners:
• Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford
University (CCARE)
• Compassion 2.0
• Mindful Futures Network
• Positive Relationships at Work (PRW) Microcommunity