Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth
Keynote Speaker
Compassionate Agility: Leading with Care and Efficiency in Times of Change
Thursday, March 20, 2025
In today's rapidly changing global, political, and tech landscape, effective leadership requires the ability to navigate complex challenges and uncertainties. In such times, resilience and success require deepening our human connections and expanding our adaptive capacities. In this inspiring keynote full of stories and practical takeaways, you’ll learn the four essential elements for practicing compassionate agility – defined as “the ability to prioritize empathic connection and support, while deftly and boldly navigating challenge and change.” You’ll walk away enriched with practical wisdom, inspiring examples, and actionable strategies for not just weathering the tides of change, but winning in the midst of them.
Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth is one of today's leading global experts on compassionate leadership and radical self-compassion. Since 2008, she has been studying, speaking, and writing about the science and spirituality of human emotions and relationships. Her articles have been published more than a dozen times in peer-reviewed journals, and she has taught at prestigious institutions like Princeton, Boston University, and Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. Andrea has delivered talks to audiences at some of the top-ranked universities in the world—including Cambridge University in England and Heidelberg University in Germany. Her new book—The Compassion Advantage: How Top Leaders Build More Humanizing Workplaces— was published in August 2024.
Dr. Andrea spends most of her time doing two things: (1) Inspiring leaders and teams to use The Compassion Advantage™ to build supercharged organizations through cultures of care—especially in times of challenge and change; and (2) Inspiring audiences to use Radical Self-Compassion™ to find resilience and renewal in the face of life's inevitable messes and mishaps. She lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota, with her family.
Be sure to join us in San Diego, to be a part of Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth's keynote address kicking off the 19th Annual Pre-Award Research Administration Conference, Thursday, March 20, 2025.