On Purpose, hosted by Jon Staenberg, MA '85, MBA '88

6:00 Check-in (15 min)
6:15 Video-guided activity on values and purpose (75 min)
7:30 Conversation (30 min)
8:00 Event ends

Featured faculty

Leah Weiss, ’00, is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur, and author. She teaches compassionate leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she created the perennially-waitlisted course “Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion.” She is a principal teacher and a founding faculty member of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. She co-founded Skylyte, a company which uses neuroscience and behavior change to empower leaders and prevent burnout. Her book, How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind focuses on developing compassionate and soft skill-based leadership; it has been translated into 7 different languages. Her latest book is Bhavana: The Thai secrets of everyday resilience.

SAA could not do this without our amazing local alumni volunteers, who have organized many of these programs throughout the world!

Validated parking is available at the Whole Foods lot.