Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work - Hardcover

by Amelia Dunlop (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

In Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work, celebrated strategist Amelia Dunlop delivers an insightful and practical exploration of what it means to feel loved and worthy at work. She tells the story of discovering her own sense of love and worth in her twenty-year career as a management consultant at the world's largest professional services firm. She also shares compelling quantitative research on what she calls the "Worthiness Gap," the gap between how important it is to feel worthy and how much we struggle to do so.

In this book, Amelia introduces three paths to find love and worth at work. First, she explores the path of the self, a deeply personal exploration where you learn to love yourself and recognize your own fundamental human worth, especially when you encounter obstacles that challenge that sense of worth.

Second, you'll learn to recognize and love "Another" at work, mirroring back their worth. You'll be challenged to become a better ally by consciously and intentionally giving your support, voice, and power to someone else.

Third, you'll discover what it means to love and recognize the worth of others you work with every day. You'll learn how to create a workplace that sees and values people who find themselves systematically marginalized, unseen, and unrepresented at work.

Elevating the Human Experience provides insights and observations that will help you show up as more human in the workplace. Perfect for those who struggle to feel loved and worthy at work, and for those who love or lead people who do, Elevating the Human Experience belongs on the bookshelves of everyone who cares about bringing their authentic identity to work.

Back Jacket

See yourself and others as worthy of love, particularly at work

1 out of 2 people struggle to feel worthy

"Elevating the Human Experience offers a roadmap for bringing our whole selves through the door at work to forge richer relationships and to create more affirming work environments."

--ENSHALLA ANDERSON Global Head of Brand Strategy, Google Cloud

"This book represents a heartfelt and deep paradigm shift. While most business leaders walk on eggshells trying to describe the humanity of their workforce, Amelia Dunlop, simply and satisfyingly, asks us to love."

--RENATO MAZZIERO Vice President, Experience and Innovation at Thrivent

"This is an outrageously intelligent and heartfelt book."

--THOMAS MOORE Bestselling Author of Care of the Soul

"The prospect of a workplace that incorporates love as a means of unlocking, even transforming the humans who comprise it, is a bold stroke. Connecting investment in the human experience at work with individual and organizational performance, Elevating the Human Experience is a refreshing and inspiring work."

--TIM NECASTRO President and CEO at Erie Insurance Group

"Elevating the Human Experience is personal; it's insightful; and it's exactly what is needed right now as many of us reckon with how to reconcile our humanity and our careers."

--DANE JENSEN CEO, Third Factor, Author of The Power of Pressure

Author Biography

AMELIA DUNLOP is the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, as well as U.S. Customer Strategy and Applied Design Leader. She helps organizations develop winning strategies that combine design, creativity, and strategy. She is a regular writer and speaker on the topic of elevating the human experience.