Laurel Donnellan

Laurel is the Founder and CEO of Compassionate Leaders Circle where she leads initiatives in career transformations, leadership mastery and coaching with compassion. She has created programs designed for positive impact with individuals and organizations including Cornell University, Toyota, Disney, Viacom, and New York City Board of Education. She has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University’s College of Business and an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. In addition to her formal education, Laurel has immersed herself in learning the ancient Native American Vision Quest tradition and is a certified yoga instructor through the Omega Institute.

Laurel’s approach to change integrates compassion, curriculum, coaching and contemplative practices. She has designed customized curriculum for top-tier business schools, internal corporate universities, high schools, an ashram, and a prison. She has published several books including Born To Do: The Practical Guide To Loving Your Work, has been featured on NPR, and had the opportunity to work with executives in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Her passions include conscious leadership, education equality, properly brewed tea. She currently writes about compassionate leadership for Forbes.com and cohosts a podcast called The Buddhist and The Pagan. You can learn more about her and her work at compassionateleaderscircle.com.