How Can Business Education Develop Compassionate Leaders?

02/17/22 • 51 min

We want to help the generations of tomorrow become leaders who care, not managers who manage.

Sophia Town is an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the leading people and organizations area at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.

Sophia’s classes are guided by the question: How can we use business education to develop compassionate leaders and build a flourishing world?

On this podcast, Sophia and Barry-Wehmiller's Brian Wellinghoff have a conversation about how we can infuse Truly Human Leadership in business education to better train the leaders of tomorrow.

We want to help the generations of tomorrow become leaders who care, not managers who manage.

Sophia Town is an assistant professor of organizational behavior in the leading people and organizations area at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.

Sophia’s classes are guided by the question: How can we use business education to develop compassionate leaders and build a flourishing world?

On this podcast, Sophia and Barry-Wehmiller's Brian Wellinghoff have a conversation about how we can infuse Truly Human Leadership in business education to better train the leaders of tomorrow.

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