Aug. 1, 2024

Overcoming Isolation at Work with Nethra Samarawickrema

Being a compassionate and empathetic person can sometimes feel lonely when you're on a software team. In this episode, Andrea and Ray chat with Nethra Semarawickrema and get practical advice on how people can overcome feeling isolated at work.

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Overcoming Isolation at Work with Nethra Samarawickrema
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Nethra Samarawickrema is a career and executive coach who helps people align their work with their values. She supports her clients in making career transitions and writing their own scripts to actualize lives that express who they are. Her work is grounded in empathy and she coaches entrepreneurs, engineers, academics, writers, artists, and startup co-founders to listen to their needs and actualize their full potential. She also works with organizations, combining insights from Anthropology, Design Thinking, and Nonviolent Communication to train teams in transforming their communication to enhance their collaboration. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University and has taught at the Stanford d.School.

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Empathy in Tech’s mission is to accelerate the responsible adoption of empathy in the tech industry to help humanity solve our most pressing and complex problems. We do this by focusing on three key areas:

  • Technical Empathy - Close the empathy skills gap in the tech industry by leading a scientific revolution that embraces new research.
  • Ethical Empathy - Ensure empathy is used for social good through ethical, equitable, and responsible choices.
  • Actionable Empathy - Build a thriving community that makes effective empathy training accessible, affordable, and widely available.

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Nethra Samarawickrema

Anthropologist and Career Coach

Nethra Samarawickrema, PhD, is a career and executive coach who helps people and align their work with their values. She supports her clients in making career transitions and writing their own scripts to actualize lives that express who they are. Her work is grounded in empathy and she coaches entrepreneurs, engineers, academics, writers, artists, and startup co-founders to listen for their needs and actualize their full potential. She also works with organizations, combining insights from Anthropology, Design Thinking, and Nonviolent Communication to train teams in transforming their communication to enhance their collaboration. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University and has taught at the Stanford d.School.