The Impact of Empathy and Stoicism at Work w/ Shermin Kruse

Toxic Leadership: Tales of Transformation

This episode explores the connection between empathy and stoicism and further, how it can help employees at work!

Guest Bio

Shermin Kruse is a global transactions expert, lawyer, speaker, professor, TEDx producer, writer, and idea curator. She currently teaches global transactions, tactical empathy, complex negotiation, and leadership at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She is also a TED and TEDx talk producer (having produced more than 60 different TEDx talks and various TEDx music videos), a TEDx speaker, and a negotiation and leadership consultant specializing in weaponizing empathy and stoicism. She is an advisor to corporate directors through the NACD of Chicago, and the author of the textbook published by Northwestern University Library, “Global Transactions and Regulation: Political, Legal, and Cultural Frameworks” which examines current and relevant business, legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that arise when commercial transactions across national borders. Prior to her textbook, Ms. Kruse wrote the critically acclaimed, best-selling novel “Butterfly Stitching,” inspired by the true experiences of herself and the women in her family before and after the Iranian revolution. In addition to her teaching corporate and negotiations experience, Ms. Kruse was a partner at the law firm of Barack Ferrazzano where she represented international and Fortune 500 companies for 17 years. Her nearly two decade long legal practice provided her with in depth knowledge of corporate business management, high stakes negotiations, and complex cross-border transactions.

Ms. Kruse is a frequent speaker on issues relating to tactical empathy, complex negotiation, stoicism, idea curation, change-agency, leadership, and professional development. She was recently named as the annual Woman Extraordinaire by the International Women Associates, featured by WomanScape Magazine for her global humanitarian work, and named one of the nation’s top 100 “Women to Watch” by BizWomen Magazine, one of Chicago’s most influential women by Chicago Business Journal, and one of Chicago’s Women of Inspiration by Today’s Chicago Magazine. Dedicated to her local and global community, Ms. Kruse is the founder of multiple national and global non-profits and NGOs.

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