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Kirstie Drummond Papworth
Transform workplace culture with Kirstie Drummond Papworth, speaker and compassionate leadership expert. Kirstie works with diverse sectors to drive behavioural change and leadership development, delivering evidence-based insights as a TEDx speaker and author of "Compassionate Leadership" (de Gruyter, 2023).
Kirstie Drummond Papworth is a highly accomplished professional in psychology and behavioural change. With a solid academic background, holding two Master's degrees in Psychology (with a specialization in business) and Behavioural Change, Kirstie is well-equipped to understand and address the complexities of human behaviour.
Throughout her career, Kirstie has gained valuable experience in various leadership roles. She has held commercial positions in an FTSE50 organization, served as the Commercial Director for an independent wine importer, and successfully managed her consultancy, Tangerine Thistle, specialising in behavioural change.
Her expertise has been sought after by diverse sectors, including higher education, retail, software, engineering, healthcare, and the armed forces, where she has delivered leadership development interventions.
Kirstie's passion for sharing knowledge and making a difference extends beyond her professional engagements. She actively contributes to the field through webinars and workshops for esteemed organizations such as the British Psychological Society and the National Health Service.
Her expertise in compassionate leadership has led her to deliver keynote speeches for professional development groups, including LeanIn, NHS Trusts, Suicide Prevention conferences, and even BBC Radio. As a TEDx speaker, Kirstie has shared her insights on compassion, her specialist subject. Her experience in this area is further demonstrated by the publication of her first book, Compassionate Leadership: for Individual and Organisational Change (de Gruyter, 2023).
Currently, Kirstie serves as the Executive Director of Experiential Learning at London Business School, where she continues to impact future leaders' development significantly. Her dedication to promoting compassionate leadership and driving individual and organizational change is evident in her work.
Topics, sessions and talks
This talk highlights why empathy, despite its recent popularity, is not a sustainable approach to leadership. Instead, compassion offers more physiological, psychological and organisational benefits. We will explore why there is no such thing as compassion fatigue, and offer ways in which you can immediately start to develop your compassionate leadership practice.
Leaders and those aspiring to lead often complain about a lack of time to invest in their own development. Tackling this issue, this talk provides a distillation of proven approaches in a fun, experiential way, ensuring delegates leave with practical tools and a renewed approach to self-development.
Self-esteem in moderation can be a useful buffer against stress, and makes us feel good. But there are dangers associated with too much self-esteem and it can prove elusive when we most need it. This talk will help you to understand self-esteem more fully, spot the danger signs of hubris, and gives a more useful, enduring approach to how we feel about ourselves.
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Kirstie Drummond Papworth structures her sessions around evidence-based frameworks drawn from psychology and behavioural science, translating academic research into experiential exercises that participants can apply immediately.
Kirstie Drummond Papworth's sessions cover compassionate versus empathic leadership, self-development for leaders, and the psychology of self-esteem. She is the author of Compassionate Leadership: for Individual and Organisational Change (de Gruyter, 2023) and serves as Executive Director of Experiential Learning at London Business School.
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