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Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work
Wall Street Journal bestseller
Have you ever struggled to feel worthy at work? Do you know or lead people who do?
When Amelia Dunlop first heard the phrase "elevating the human experience" in a leadership team meeting with her boss, she thought, "He is crazy if he thinks we will ever say those words out loud to each other much less to a potential client."
We've been conditioned to separate our personal and professional selves, but work is fundamental to our human experience. Love and worth have a place in work because our humanity and authentic identities make our work better. The acknowledgement of our intrinsic worth as human beings and the nurturing of our own or another's growth through love ultimately contribute to higher performance and organizational growth. Now as the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, a leading Experience Consultancy, Amelia Dunlop knows we must embrace elevating the human experience for the advancement and success of ourselves and our organizations.
This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study to better understand feelings of love and worth in the workplace and introduces three paths that allow individuals to create the professional experience they desire for themselves, their teams, and their clients.
The first path explores the path of the self, an inward path where we learn to love ourselves when we show up for work, and examines the obstacles that hinder us. The second path centers around learning to love and recognize the worth of another in our lives, adding to the worth we feel and providing a source of meaning to our lives. The third path considers the community of work and learning to love and recognize the worth of those we meet every day at work, especially for those who may be systematically marginalized, unseen, or unrepresented. Drawing on her own personal journey to find love and worth at work in her twenty-year career as a management consultant, Amelia also weaves together insights from philosophers, theologians, and sociologists with the stories of people from diverse backgrounds gathered during her research.
Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work is for anyone who has felt the struggle to feel worthy at work, as well as for those who have no idea what it may feel like to struggle every day just to feel loved and worthy, but love people and lead people who do. It's a practical approach to elevating the human experience that will lead to important conversations about values and purpose, and ultimately, meaningful change.
Have you ever struggled to feel worthy at work? Do you know or lead people who do?
When Amelia Dunlop first heard the phrase "elevating the human experience" in a leadership team meeting with her boss, she thought, "He is crazy if he thinks we will ever say those words out loud to each other much less to a potential client."
We've been conditioned to separate our personal and professional selves, but work is fundamental to our human experience. Love and worth have a place in work because our humanity and authentic identities make our work better. The acknowledgement of our intrinsic worth as human beings and the nurturing of our own or another's growth through love ultimately contribute to higher performance and organizational growth. Now as the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, a leading Experience Consultancy, Amelia Dunlop knows we must embrace elevating the human experience for the advancement and success of ourselves and our organizations.
This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study to better understand feelings of love and worth in the workplace and introduces three paths that allow individuals to create the professional experience they desire for themselves, their teams, and their clients.
The first path explores the path of the self, an inward path where we learn to love ourselves when we show up for work, and examines the obstacles that hinder us. The second path centers around learning to love and recognize the worth of another in our lives, adding to the worth we feel and providing a source of meaning to our lives. The third path considers the community of work and learning to love and recognize the worth of those we meet every day at work, especially for those who may be systematically marginalized, unseen, or unrepresented. Drawing on her own personal journey to find love and worth at work in her twenty-year career as a management consultant, Amelia also weaves together insights from philosophers, theologians, and sociologists with the stories of people from diverse backgrounds gathered during her research.
Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work is for anyone who has felt the struggle to feel worthy at work, as well as for those who have no idea what it may feel like to struggle every day just to feel loved and worthy, but love people and lead people who do. It's a practical approach to elevating the human experience that will lead to important conversations about values and purpose, and ultimately, meaningful change.
Readers Top Reviews
Veronica DunlopJe
This is a wonderfully relevant book for the here and now. The author takes the concept of love and worth to an unexpected place; the workplace. Dunlop shows a path forward for those of us seeking more from each day.
E.A.R.
This book is engaging and beautifully written. Dunlop shares her personal journey as a woman and as a Mom in a businessman's world, including the challenges she faced, both self inflicted and external, and the paths that lead to self love and work love. The author's vulnerability and genuine desire to extend love in the context of work is inspiring -- this book may just change the way you see yourself and enable you to pay it forward.
Dunlop endears the reader with her own vulnerability, through personal stories of struggles and triumphs. I felt Dunlop sharing her strength with me while reading this book - both on a personal and professional level. In addition to sending a powerful message, this book is highly relevant right now. As many of us are re-defining the role of work in our lives - the topic of love and worth at work must be addressed, out loud.
Jeff Lippincott
The book was just OK. So it should have gotten a 3-star rating from me. But since the author seems to think her human experience has been less than it should have been, I figure I'll throw her a little charity and rate the book with 4 stars. I have very little sympathy for a woman who graduates salutatorian in a high school class of 400 students, gets into Harvard, graduates, and then gets two masters degrees from highly competitive schools (Boston College and Cambridge University). But there are other reasons I have little sympathy for the author. First, she complains about the world being White male dominant. And secondly, complains about most of the world's cultures being unfair. She doesn't like existing standards and existing norms. She wants them to change so things can be fair. What is fair? The answer depends on who you ask. And if you ask the author, who is the main breadwinner in her household and leaves the raising of the three kids to her house-husband to do, then you know you are going to have a warped definition of fair. Couple that with her chosen profession (management consultant with blue chip firms) which is known to be very cutthroat in its way of hiring, promoting, and firing. The lifestyle of a high-end management consultant does not leave much room for raising kids. You've got to produce quality services and find quality clients to pay “earn” your compensation package, and retain your job. Very demanding! So what is the book about? It discusses why there is a need for people to elevate the “human experience” for themselves and those around them AT WORK. Wouldn't it be nice to be a woman competing in a man's world and be treated like a man? Of course. But is that realistic? Of course not. If a man were to take “maternity leave” in the author's line of work I'm pretty sure he'd get fired. But the author took 3 maternity leaves during her career and she's still employed. AND she still complains. Wouldn't it be nice if an employee could design and create his or her workplace environment so they could be happy with their work, where they work, and with whom they work? That in a nutshell is what this book is about. Totally unrealistic! Since when do workers get to design and create their work environment unless they are self-employed? And the author is certainly not an entrepreneur who is self-employed. The author suggests there are at least three reasons the elevation of the human experience is necessary: 1. Should mitigate suffering and struggling of you and your co-workers 2. May lead to more productivity 3. May result in more worker creativity I'll let you read the book to see if the author convinces you that elevation is “necessary.” It might be nice, but that doesn't mean that it is necessary. And it certainly is unrealistic! 4 stars!
Mike33
If the Beatle's song "All you need is love" was made into a book, this would be it. Amelia's book is unlike any business book I've read. It is about the importance of love to elevate others and yourself. It is provocative and refreshingly authentic. Highly recommended!
