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Amy Bradley

Author •
TEDx Speaker

Professor, writer and speaker

About

Gender: Female

Languages: English

Travels from: United Kingdom

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Amy Bradley is a researcher, writer, consultant and keynote speaker on the topics of compassionate leadership and engagement at work.

Biography

Amy Bradley’s Background

Amy’s research has been published in academic and practitioner publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes Magazine and management Today and in the press, including BBC online and The Guardian.

In 2020, Amy made it onto the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar of global Management thinkers. Her latest book, The Human Moment, was longlisted for CMI’s Management Book. In it, Amy argues that organisations must find ways of becoming more compassionate in an age where our work is increasingly de-humanised. Her second book, Running on Empty is an inquiry into the causes, symptoms, effects and potential antidotes to burnout, which has become particularly prevalent in the working population in the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Amy enjoys open water swimming and trail running. In her spare time, she volunteers as a Community First Responder (CFR) for the UK NHS Ambulance Service. CFRs are volunteers who are trained to respond to emergency medical situation in their local community.

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The Human Moment: The Positive Power of Compassion in the Workplace

We live in a world in crisis. Societies are becoming fractured, opinions polarised and people are increasingly isolated. In an attempt to seek out human connection, many people spend more time at work than they do with family members, yet few of us have someone at work who we trust enough to share our vulnerabilities and talk to about the things that worry us. To be human is to suffer, yet our struggles can remain hidden from work. This book argues that compassion is a core human value, which is too often overlooked in business. In these challenging and unprecedented times, workplaces have a crucial role to play in fostering kindness, care and understanding for one another as human kind. Based on a decade of research and packed with examples and case studies, this book argues that compassion is THE hidden key to business performance in the 21st Century.

Running on Empty: Navigating the dangers of burnout at work

Three out of five workers across the world say they feel burned out. A 2020 study claims that the figure is in fact three in four. Over the past 24 months, our relationship with work has changed beyond recognition. On one side, employees are now looking for more choice, flexibility and freedom than ever before and statistics show that if they don’t get what they want, they are prepared to vote with their feet. On the other, employers across all industries and job roles are currently facing mass resignations, with 3.6 million US workers resigning in May 2021 alone. With such a background, organizations are now being forced to take burnout among their workforce more seriously. This book offers a story-based exploration of a growing risk and some real and deep practices that seek to improve the human experience of the present-day workforce and make organizations more viable for the future. The authors look at the current burnout situation from a lens of discovering and seeking to heal some of the root causes of workplace despair. The book gives the reader a sense of when burnout is happening or imminent and suggests human and radical inroads for prevention and healing.