by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Apr 28, 2022 | #CurrencyOfEmpathy, Cancer, Caring
Susan and Jackie in Balat neighborhood of Istanbul I’m lucky. Oh, yeah, not so fortunate to have cancer, but… I have friends who are willing to travel around the world – literally – to be with me. This week, Susan Colby, a longtime, dear friend whom I first met...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Mar 20, 2022 | Cancer, Caring, Currency of Empathy, Empathy, Empathy for Self, Empathy with Our Bodies, Fun, Healing, Healing from Cancer
Sharon and Jackie enjoying Istanbul, March 2022 While living in Istanbul, I’m learning Turkish. It’s not an easy language to pick up, but it’s a fun, rhythmic, and poetic language to practice. It’s also succinct. A few words say a lot. People appreciate that I try and...
by Jackie Acho | Mar 26, 2019 | #EmpathyDeficitDisorder, Caring, Parenting
I love this picture! That’s what it looks like to bring home and work together. A professor holding a baby so a dad/student can take notes at Morehouse College. If you’re a working/studying parent, you know the feeling when your childcare plan falls through. And it’s...
by Jackie Acho | Sep 3, 2015 | Caring, Conscious Capitalism, Leading with a Conscience
Leadership with a conscience: are we there yet? With 70 million people disengaged at work, it seems our heart and soul are someplace else. What about our conscience – that inner voice which guides our sense of right and wrong and our behavior? For too many of us,...