29 - HCI Rewind - Assessing a Teams’ Mental Health Needs to Provide Support and Avoid Burnout, with Leah Weiss, Ph.D

The Wellness Advantage

In this episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Leah Weiss, Ph.D. about assessing a teams’ mental health needs to provide support and avoid burnout.

Leah Weiss, Ph.D., MSW (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahweissphd) is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, author and co-founder of Skylyte. Dr. Weiss is best known for her teaching at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and groundbreaking work with Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program (conceived by the Dalai Lama). Dr. Weiss has taught and spoken at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Smith, TED and 75 companies from Goldman Sachs to Intuit. She co-founded Skylyte in 2019 with partner Ines Gramegna to provide corporate leadership and build resilience using AI technology and other data-driven solutions. With Skylyte she has counseled such clients as Stanford Health, Mayo Clinic, Genentech, Google, European Commission, and NASA. Skylyte has attracted over $1 million in pre-seed funding and is venture-backed. An expert in workplace anxiety, burnout, resilience, and the role of leadership in addressing mental health, Dr. Weiss holds a PhD from Boston College, and bachelor's degree from Stanford University. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and has three young children.