Empathy, Seeing Their Way with Michael Ventura
How can we learn to see the world through someone else’s eyes to create a deeper understanding and guide better decision making?
About this Conversation
Understanding what is really going on, both in ourselves and in others, is key to finding valuable perspectives that can be practically applied to solve problems, in work and life.
Michael Ventura is an accomplished entrepreneur, practitioner, and author, who recognised a disconnect between business and well-being. His book, Applied Empathy explores the intersectionality of these two worlds through the practice of empathy for the self, and for others.
“With Applied Empathy, Michael Ventura shows us how to unlock our ability to design solutions, spark innovation, and solve tough challenges with empathy at the center.”
Michael Ventura
Michael Ventura is the founder of Sub Rosa, an award-winning strategy and design firm that has worked with Fortune 100 companies, governments, and progressive start-ups.
Through his work with influential organizations and institutions including Adobe, Google, TED, Goldman Sachs, The UN, and the Obama Administration, Ventura realised how empathy has practical relationships with business, productivity, and profit.
As Ventura explains it, empathy is a learnable skill that helps us form new and better ways of thinking, being, and doing that can be applied to business, leadership, and life.
““Meaningful change happens when people come together with open arms, minds and hearts. Honed through his experience working with a range of companies, Michael Ventura provides great insights and tools for how you too can make meaningful change happen”.
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Applied Empathy
The New Language of Leadership
Why tune in?
Empathy isn’t about having sympathy or being nice, it's about having understanding and being able to see things from other points of view.
As a speaker, including as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and West Point, Ventura describes how the right kind of empathy not only fulfills a deep human need: to understand and be understood, but gives examples of how applying empathy has been successful in finding practical solutions to a range of diverse problems.
Ventura also leads a thriving indigenous well-being medicine practice, grounded in the traditions of the Nahua people, and has served as a board member and advisor to a variety of organizations including Behance, The Burning Man Project, The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and Tribal Link Foundation.
