Uvinie Lubecki
Leading Through Connection, USA
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Clin Exp Psychol
Statement of the Problem: A
recent survey on 1,000 leaders
across 800 organizations has
shown that while 91% of leaders
believe compassion is important
to their leadership, 80% do
not know how to lead with
compassion. Researchers have
shown that mindfulness and
compassion can be trained and
when applied to interactions,
they can improve wellbeing,
resilience, and interactions with
others. However, mindfulness
and compassion have thus far
largely been applied to personal
wellbeing and stress reduction.
Few tools have been developed
that translate and apply these
techniques to leadership.
Methodology & Theoretical
Orientation: Building on the
curriculum I developed at Dalai
Lama Fellows, which applies
universal values championed
by the Dalai Lama to leading
social change, weâ??ve created a
new secular training program
for seasoned leaders in the
corporate and non-profit
sectors. Thus far, leaders from
organizations such as Macyâ??s,
Eileen Fisher, Celgene, and
Pachamama Alliance amongst
others have participated in
these training. The training
is 2-day intensive workshops
followed by 5 weeks of practice
and a concluding 1.5-hour
webinar.
Conclusion & Significance:
Leaders demonstrated
improvements in selfawareness,
ability to regulate
emotions, ability to extend
caring and compassion to
others, improvements in
their ability to interact with
others, and the ability to
provide constructive feedback
with compassion. Additional
questions on how to apply
compassion to top-down
processes to influence culture
are being explored.
Uvinie Lubecki is the Founder and CEO of Leading Through Connection, which trains leaders and supports organizations to build a culture of connection and compassion. Previously, she was the managing director for Dalai Lama Fellows, where she developed the curriculum for bringing mindfulness and compassion into leading social change. Before Dalai Lama Fellows, she leads strategy for Relay Health at McKesson, incubated businesses for Aetna, and worked as a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting. At LTC, she draws from her leadership experiences to craft practical and realistic mindfulness and compassion tools and practices for leaders. She holds an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University. She’s originally from Sri Lanka and was raised in New York, Nigeria, and Jordan.
E-mail: uvinie@gmail.com
