If we want to collaborate across boundaries we need to develop a passion for “the other” who is necessarily different from ourselves. We need to reframe caring as a “hard” organizational capability that is the basis for effective cooperation across roles, silos, and stakeholder boundaries. How can leaders create a culture of caring for other perspectives — inside and outside their team? Is it possible to institutionalize empathy for the logic of other functional verticals, for the world of your customers, your suppliers, your partners in your ecosystem?

Hosted by CFFO Chairman Roland Deiser, a mix of prominent thought and practice leaders explore these questions in an unscripted dialogue. They are:

• Kristine Kawamura | Professor of Management and Academic Director Societal and Global Impact, Drucker School of Management (the “A”)
• Michael Augello | Chief Executive Officer, Airbus UpNext (the “B”)
• Suzie Lewis | Managing Director, Transform for Value and CFFO Executive Fellow (the “C”)
• Maria Ross | Author of The Empathy Dilemma (the “C”)

This event is connected to the issue #46 of Developing Leaders Quarterly (DLQ) : Who Cares? The Power of Compassionate Leadership. Two participants of this Round Table have contributed as authors to this issue. Read their contributions here:

• Suzie Lewis: From Compete and Compare to Collaborate and Care
• Maria Ross:  The Five Pillars of Effective Empathetic Leadership