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.
Are You Ready to Choose Empathy?
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
