On Purpose, hosted by Suzanne McCombs, '83

3:00 Check-in (15 min)
3:15 Video-guided activity on values and purpose (75 min)
4:30 Conversation (30 min)
5:00 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!