Past Presentations


CompassionLab Presentations 2014

Dutton, J. (2014). Building a Postive Business by Facilitating High Quality Connections. Speaker at Positive Business Conference, May 16, 2014.

Worline, M. C. (2014). Incorporating Ethics and Compassion into Business Life: A Conversation between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Academic and Business Leaders. Panel discussion, February 24, 2014, Santa Clara, CA.

CompassionLab Presentations 2013

Dutton, J. Compassion at Work. Presented to Positive Links, University of Michigan Center for Positive Organizations, Ann Arbor, MI.

Dutton, J. Compassion at Work: An Invited Workshop. Presented to International Positive Psychology Association.

Dutton, J. Compassion in Work Organizations. Presented at the International Working Group on Compassionate Organizations, Louisville, KY.

Dutton, J.K., Workman, K., & McClain, J. (2013). Readying for Compassionate Work. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings. Orlando, FL.

Worline, M. C. (2013). Compassion and Technology Conference. Speaker at the inaugural conference presented by the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) in collaboration with Facebook, 1440 Foundation, HopeLab, and The Dalai Lama Foundation. 

CompassionLab Presentations 2012

Dutton, J., & Workman, K. (2012). Readying for Compassion. Presented at the Positive Relationships Conference, Boston, MA.

Dutton, J., & Workman, K. (2012). The Wonder of Compassion. Presented at ICOS, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Lilius, J. M. (2012). Compassion in the Workplace: The Heart of Healthcare. Presented at the Health Leaders Institute, Toronto, ON.

Maitlis, S. (2012). Building Resilience in Organizations: A Relational Perspective. Keynote presentation at the Conference on Organizational Resilience, Herzliya, Israel.

CompassionLab Presentations 2011

Dutton, J., & Workman, K. (2011). Designing for Compassion. Presented at the May Meaning Meeting, Sundance, UT.

Lilius, J. M. (2011). Compassion in the Workplace: The Heart of Healthcare. Presented at the Health Leaders Institute, Toronto, ON.

Maitlis, S., & Lawrence, T. (2011). Care and Possibility. Narrative Practices of Resilient Teams. Presented at the May Meaning Meeting, Sundance, UT.

CompassionLab Presentations 2010

Dutton, J. (2010). Taking Care Seriously in Organizational Studies: Seeing the Possibilities. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Montreal, Canada.

Dutton, J., Spreitzer, G., Heaphy, E., & Stephens, J.P. (2010). When and How Employees Lend a Hand: Facilitators of Compassion Outside of Work. Presented at the Academy of Management Meetings, Montreal, Canada.

Kanov, J., & Lilius, J. (2010). Compassion Research Incubator: Emerging Perspectives on the Scholarship and Practice of Compassion. Presented at an All-Academy Theme symposium conducted at the meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada.

Lilius, J. M. (2010). Compassion in the Workplace: The Heart of Healthcare. Presented at the Health Leaders Institute, Toronto, ON.

Maitlis, S. (2010). Making Meaning After a Work-Related Trauma. Presented in a symposium on The why and how of finding meaning at work: Insights from multiple disciplines. The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Maitlis, S. (2010). Dilemmas of Compassion in Organizations. Presented in an All Academy Symposium on Making caring less daring: Overcoming the challenges of compassion. The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Maitlis, S., & Lawrence, T. (2010). Caregiving In Teams: Narrative Practices of Self-Healing Work Teams. Presented at the May Meaning Meeting, Duxbury, MA.

CompassionLab Presentations 2009

Kanov, J. (2009). Leading with Compassion. Presented at Western Washington University’s Viking Leadership Week, Bellingham, WA.

Lilius, J. M. (2009). Compassion in the Workplace: The Heart of Healthcare. Presented at the Health Leaders Institute, Toronto, ON.

Lilius, J. M., & Kanov, J. M. (2009). Compassion in Organizations and Compassionate Questions in Organizational Scholarship. Panel presentation at the National Academy of Management meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lilius, J. M., & Fisk, G. M. (2009). Do You Feel What I Feel? A Comparison of Self vs. Subordinate Rating of Supervisor Compassion. Paper presented at the National Academy of Management meeting, Chicago, IL.

Worline, M. C., Lilius, J. M., Dutton, J. E., Kanov, J. M., Maitlis, S., & Frost, P. J. (2009). A Practice-Based View of the Sustainable Expression of Compassion in Low-Wage Work. Paper presented at the National Academy of Management meeting, Chicago, IL.

Worline, M. C. (2009). The Sustainable Practice of Compassion in Human Communities. Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies, Barcelona, Spain.

Worline, M. C. (2009). A Practice-Based View of Emotion in Capabilities for Organizing. Presented at the Center for Organizational Research, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Worline, M. C. (2009). Making a Place for Emotions in the Workplace. Presented at the Emory University School of Medicine Administrative Professionals Retreat, Atlanta, GA.

Worline, M. C. (2009). Exploring Emotion in Capabilities for Organizing. Presented at the May Meaning Meeting, Topsail Island, NC.

CompassionLab Presentations 2008

Lilius, J. M. (2008). Compassion in the Workplace: How Organizations Can Respond to Employee Grief, and Why It Matters. Presented at the Municipal Health and Safety Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON.

Lilius, J. M. (2008). Compassion in the Workplace: The Heart of Healthcare. Presented at the Quality Worklife Quality Healthcare Summit, Ottawa, ON.

Worline, M. C. (2008). Enlivening Work: Managing Tensions to Cultivate Vitality in an Organizational Unit. Presented in a symposium on Sideways Organizing: A new stance for questions about practices and routines, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA.

Worline, M. C. (2008). Does Compassion Organizing Cultivate Resilience? Presented in a symposium on Resilience in organizations, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Worline, M. C. (2008). At the Intersection: How Organizational Practices Related to Compassion Cultivate Resilience. Presented at the Positive Organizational Scholarship Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.

CompassionLab Presentations 2007

Worline, M., Lilius, J., Dutton, J., Kanov, J., Maitlis, S., & Frost, P. (2007). Organizing Resilience by Cultivating Resources. Presentation at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

CompassionLab Presentations 2005

Dutton, J. (2005). Peter’s Pleas to Emotion Researchers: “Open our Eyes”. Invited talk given at the Peter Frost Commemorative Festival: A Celebration of Emotion at Work. Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Honolulu, HA.

Maitlis, S. (2005). Sensemaking As Healing. Presented in a Symposium on Healing, Forgiving, and Resolving Conflicts in the 21st Century at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HA.

CompassionLab Presentations 2003

Dutton, J. (2003). Damage Control: Dealing with Corrosive Connections at Work. Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

Dutton, J. E., Lilius, J. M., & Kanov, J. M. (2003, September). The Transformative Potential of Compassion at Work. Presentation at the Business as an Agent of World Benefit Inaugural Conference: New Designs in Transformative Cooperation. The Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cincinnati, OH.

Kanov, J. M. (2003). Pain, Suffering, and Compassion at Work. ICOS Dissertation Poster Session, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Lilius, J., Worline, M., Dutton, J., Kanov, J., Frost, P., & Maitlis, S. (2003). What Good is Compassion at Work? Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

CompassionLab Presentations 2002

Kanov, J. M. (2002). The Organizational Virtue of Compassion. In K. S. Cameron (Chair), Organizational Virtues: Implications for Performance, August 2002 – Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Academy of Management, Denver Colorado.

Lilius, J. M., Kanov, J. M., Worline, M. C., Dutton, J. E., Frost, P. J., & Maitlis, S. (2002). Compassion in the Workplace: Making a Difference for Individuals and Organizations. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychologist Society, New Orleans, LA.

Worline, M. C. (2002). Playing the Work, Working the Play: Forms of Collaborative Practice to Support High-Quality Qualitative Research. Presented a professional development workshop on qualitative research, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Worline, M., Dutton, J. E., Frost, P. J., Kanov, J., Lilius, J., & Maitlis, S. (2002). Organizing Dynamics of Resilience. Presented at the Academy of Management National Meetings, Denver Colorado, August 2002.

CompassionLab Presentations 2001

Dutton, J. E., Worline, M. C., & Frost, P. J. (2001). On Combustion, Corrosion, Courage, and Care: Key Challenges of Relational Practice in Organizations. Presented at the Western Academy of Management Conference.

Frost, P. J. (2001). Pain, Compassion and the Bottom Line: The Impact of Emotions in the Workplace. Talk presented to UBC Alumni in Toronto and Vancouver (2000) and to Service Human Resource Managers at Fundãçao Dom Cabral, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2001).