Monica Worline
Monica Worline is the author of Awakening Compassion at Work and founder and CEO of EnlivenWork, a social innovation organization dedicated to creating communities, ideas, and practices that bring humanity alive at work. Monica is an organizational psychologist whose work is dedicated to cultivating courageous thinking, compassionate leadership, and an environment that brings people's best work to life.
Monica is an award-winning teacher and interdisciplinary scholar who currently serves as an affiliate faculty at the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as a collaborating research scientist at Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. She has served on the faculties of Goizueta Business School at Emory University, the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California Irvine, and the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology. Her writing has been featured in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, the Chicago Tribune, and BizEd Magazine and her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science. Monica completed her doctoral work in organizational psychology at the University of Michigan, with a research emphasis on the expression of courage and compassion in the contemporary workplace. She earned her B.A. with distinction and honors at Stanford University.