A Human Workplace
More Love. Less fear. It’s time!
At A Human Workplace, we are committed to Loving Leadership.
It’s time to end fear-based and dehumanizing leadership and workplace practices and replace them with respect and belonging, challenge and compassion.
Rehumanizing the workplace with love as a core value and practice creates better business results AND benefits team members, families, and communities.
Ready to experience the power of putting love at the center of your work every day? Let us show you how!
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7 Steps to Lead with Love - Even If Your Organization Isn’t Ready Yet!
Renée says this: “Every time I keynote or consult, people ask me, ‘How can I convince my leaders to embrace love so I can lead with Love too?’ I’ve written this article to share the seven things I did as a Loving Leader in fear-focused organizations, confirmed in my research and coaching too. Get this today for mindset and action shifts that will help!”
The Talk+Workshop Combo Your Leaders Need! Book Simon Phillips and Renee Smith for 2025.
"It’s Time To Lead With Love: Discover How Genuine Care and Empathy Can Transform Your Team and Boost Your Business”
Powerful keynote talk + interactive workshop combination by Renée Smith and Simon Phillips
If you're looking for a fresh, motivating, game-changing centerpiece for your next Conference, look no further!
Renée Smith and Simon Phillips combine their deep experience and insights on Loving Leadership and Change in a dynamic keynote and workshop program your audience will be talking about for months and years!
Renée and Simon show your audience how to embrace the leading-edge power of love to transform leaders, uplift teams, and create successful workplaces where people feel truly connected, supported, and inspired to achieve their best.
Economic and political uncertainty can leave leaders feeling like much in work and life is beyond control. But Renée and Simon point participants to what can be controlled: how we lead our teams and work together. This keynote and complementary workshop are designed for leaders who want to make a real difference in their organizations by focusing on what truly matters—their people.
Based on solid research and real-world experiences with executive leaders across the globe, Simon and Renée show leaders how to build deeper connections, create a positive workplace culture, and address the root causes of employee turnover and disengagement.
By leading with genuine care and empathy, they will not only know how to improve team morale and loyalty but also productivity and business outcomes for success.
By the end, participants will have the insights, tools, and confidence to lead with love—retaining their best people, reducing turnover, and creating a workplace where everyone thrives!
Listen to Simon and Renée talk about Loving Leadership and Change!
“It’s time to put Love at the center of work!”
~ Renée Smith
"Love-driven leadership ignites true change!"
- Simon Phillips
Get this kind of feedback at your leadership event or conference too!
“Wonderful session! I have already shared this information with several people.”
“This session is so important to issues we are experiencing now.”
“This was relevant and one of my favorite sessions.”
“Amazing speaker and content very pertinent to humanizing the work environment!”
“Incredible session.” “Excellent presenter.”
“95% evaluated his performance as excellent!”
“I enjoyed Renee's dynamic presentation!”
“Amazing talk I loved it!”
“She had wonderful energy that just engages people!”
"Simon is energetic and always ready to put all of his knowledge and resources in to get the job done."
Loving Leaders: We can measure your impact!
42-70% MORE
Essential Human Skills
Our participants report a 42-70% increase in qualities such as gratitude, kindness, care, awareness of self and of others, listening, managing biases, connecting behaviors, inclusion, trust, and resilient self-care.
34-56% INCREASE
in Positive Team Behaviors
Our participants report a 34-56% increase in positive team behaviors such as recognition, cross-team connection, sharing ideas, listening, vulnerability, feedback, productive disagreements, forgiveness, and fun.
33-66% IMPROVED
Customer Focus
Our participants report a 33-60% improvement in customer-centric behaviors like increased awareness of customers as humans, seeking to understand customers’ needs, engagement, and commitment to meeting needs.
The evidence is in.
Loving Leaders foster engaged, psychologically safe teams who are happier, more loyal, and perform better!
They benefit from greater employee productivity.
They achieve greater customer satisfaction levels.
They experience less employee turnover.
They have lower absenteeism.
They receive more unsolicited employment applications.
They identify problems and share new ideas.
They are more innovative and improvement-focused.
Their companies have a greater incidence of share-price increase.
Find links to research articles here demonstrating the positive outcomes achieved by Loving Leaders who create more human workplaces.
Three easy steps to Lead with More Love.
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to lead with more love and humanity.
Are you committed to being a Loving Leader? Do you want to deepen your Loving Leadership practices? This email from Renée comes to your inbox three times a week to uplift, challenge, and point the way to putting Love at the center of your work.
Listen to AHW founder, social scientist, author, and speaker, Renée Smith’s podcast, To Work: With Love. Also, check out her guest appearances on other podcasts where she makes the business case for love.
Are you a Loving Leader? Are you in an organization that isn’t committed to Love yet? In this article, Renée shares the seven things responsible for transforming her leadership journey and those she coaches too, even without any organizational support!
Ready to let Love transform your workplace?
Each year, we work with select leaders and organizations to find a more loving, human path through their unique challenges. They aren’t satisfied with business-as-usual practices that harm people and neither are we. Why would we be when we can take the loving, human path?
We helped school district leaders and teachers’ union leaders build strong, respectful relationships while honoring their unique roles in the bargaining process, which all parties agreed was a universally terrible experience. They completed negotiations early and positively, avoided striking, did not harm each other as people, and set themselves up for positive collaboration and problem-solving in the years ahead. Did we mention we did this with two different school districts?
We were chosen to work with a major municipal IT department because we were gentle, and then helped them transform the way they face their workload challenges, dynamic authorizing environment, and history of painful change to create a culture where everyone can thrive.
We brought more love to social service agencies teaching them to cultivate a culture of collaborative well-being and addressing trauma and grief as a practical expression of Love in their workplaces.
Our founder, Renee Smith, keynoted the leadership conference for a British law firm, aligning with senior leader values and priorities to bring an affirming message of love and care they are still talking about nearly two years later.
We supported elected city officials with more loving ways of solving problems and addressing stress to work together effectively for constituents after elections are over in this highly charged political environment.
If you are ready to create a Loving, Human Workplace, characterized by loyalty, health, and innovative results, then let’s talk!
What our clients and their team members say…
“Invitation to Thrive has allowed people to have more faith and courage in dealing with tough issues.” - from leader of city IT organization
“There's now more readiness and willingness to engage in this type of work. People don't always think of an IT organization as engaging in human-centered, culture work and we have proven that to be untrue in Seattle." — Workforce Development Lead for municipal IT Department
“This is by far one of my favorite meetings.” - from a social services employee
“This was a very effective all-staff meeting. Looking forward to more like this in the future.” - California social services team member
“Thank you for having that session, it was awesome! It's really nice to know that our department cares about our well being especially during this time.”
“GREAT MORALE BOOSTER!” - comment after staff event at human services organization
“I vividly remember you attending our leadership conference in 2023. Your keynote turned out to be one of the most memorable (and continues to be talked about even with the passage of time!) Culture is such an important thing and your keynote was such a powerful reminder of the impact we can all make on a daily basis. Thank you!” - James O’Loughlin, People Director at Moore Barlow
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