Elevating the Human Experience

Elevating the Human Experience

by Amelia Dunlop
Released October 2021
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119791348

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Book description

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.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
    1. Why Elevating the Human Experience Is Necessary
    2. Love and Worth Research
    3. How to Elevate the Human Experience
  7. Foundation
    1. Chapter 1: Work
      1. A Personal History of Work
      2. The Beginnings of Work
      3. The Five Distortions of Work
      4. The Rise of Wellness, DEI, and Purpose at Work
    2. Chapter 2: Love
      1. Love Defined
      2. The Curious Thing about Love
    3. Chapter 3: Worth
      1. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Worth
      2. Worth at Work
      3. The Worthiness Gap
      4. Worth and Success
      5. Worth and Self-Care
    4. Chapter 4: Suffering
      1. The Human Experience
  8. The First Path: Self
    1. Chapter 5: Self-Love and Self-Worth
      1. History of Self-Love
      2. Discovering Self-Love
      3. The Surprising Thing about Self-Love
    2. Chapter 6: Cultivating Self-Love and Self-Worth
      1. Accepting Yourself in Your Being
      2. Speaking to Yourself with Kindness
      3. Loving Yourself with Your Actions
    3. Chapter 7: Obstacles to Self-Love and Self-Worth
      1. Obstacles to Self-Love Arising from the Self
      2. Obstacles Arising from the Other
      3. Obstacles Arising from the Community, System, and Culture
  9. The Second Path: Another
    1. Chapter 8: Love and Worth for Another
      1. The Meaning of Life
      2. Mirrored Worth
      3. Different Types of Allies
    2. Chapter 9: Cultivating Love and Worth for Another
      1. Pay Attention to Love
      2. We Accept and Love Another's Whole Self as Worthy
      3. We Speak to Each Other with Love
      4. We Choose to Love with Our Actions
    3. Chapter 10: Obstacles to Loving Another and Recognizing Their Worth
      1. Obstacles to Connection from the Self
      2. Obstacles to Connection from Another
      3. Obstacles to Connection from Communities, Systems, and Cultures
  10. The Third Path: Community of Work
    1. Chapter 11: Love and Worth at Work
      1. The Love Speech
      2. The Work of Elevating the Human Experience
    2. Chapter 12: Cultivating Love and Worth for Othersat Work
      1. We Accept All Others as Being Worthy
      2. We Speak to Others with Words of Kindness
      3. We Love All Others with Our Actions
    3. Chapter 13: Obstacles to Loving Others and Recognizing Their Worth at Work
      1. Obstacles to Loving Others at Work Arising from Within the Self
      2. Obstacles to Loving Others at Work Arising from Another Person
      3. Obstacles to Loving Others at Work Arising from the System
  11. Resources
    1. Chapter 14: Tools to Elevate the Human Experience: Values, Emotions, and Trust
      1. Values
      2. Emotions
      3. Trust
    2. Chapter 15: Capabilities to Elevate the Human Experience: Empathy, Courage, Integrity, and Grace
      1. Empathy
      2. Courage
      3. Integrity
      4. Grace
  12. Conclusion
  13. Appendix A
    1. Love and Worth Quantitative Research
    2. Summary Results for All Questions
  14. Appendix B
    1. Reading Guide and Reflection Questions
    2. Foundations
    3. The First Path: Self
    4. The Second Path: Another
    5. The Third Path: Community of Work
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. About the Author
  17. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Elevating the Human Experience
  • Author(s): Amelia Dunlop
  • Release date: October 2021
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119791348