The Currency of Empathy®
An Antidote to Our Empathy Deficit
A Manifesto for Changing the Systems We Lean Into
Jacqueline Acho, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacqueline Acho earned a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from MIT, and worked in strategy, leadership, and cultural transformation for more than 25 years as a partner of McKinsey & Company and as an entrepreneur. She wrote, consulted, and spoke about the power of empathy and her first book, “Currency of Empathy: The Secret to Thriving in Business & Life,” paints a vision of a better way to live and work. Upon her diagnosis of ovarian cancer in February 2020, she wrote about her experience with extraordinary insight, grace and beauty. “Cancer Culture: Fixing the Landscape by Infusing Empathy,” is the result of those writings. Jackie passed away at home in hospice care on December 22, 2022.
Media & Speaking
TEDx Cleveland State University
What It’s Really Going to Take to Get More Women in Leadership…and Why Men Should Care (April 2016)
WKYC 3: Jacqueline Acho- Author of ‘Currency of Empathy’ Breaks Down the Ways Emotional & Physical Toxicity Can Affect Your Health & Well-Being