- CEO of The Empathy Business, helping the world’s biggest businesses transform their cultures through more empathy
- Fortune ’55 most influential women’ on Twitter
- Pioneer behind the world’s first empathy index published in the Harvard Business Review
- Author of two books: The Empathy Era and Little Miss Geek, Women in Business
Belinda Parmar OBE works with leaders to transform organisations from within using the power of empathy. We spend on average 50 years of our lives at work yet 1 in 10 people are unhappy in their jobs. Belinda changes cultures to bring more meaning and empowerment to people’s lives. Belinda is leading an empathy revolution at work and has helped changed some of the world’s biggest banks and energy companies in Europe.
Belinda is an expert in nudge theory and works with companies to make hundreds of ‘empathy nudges’ in a company that come the grassroots of an organisation. Belinda’s focus is empathy in language, empathy in leadership and empathy in conflict. Belinda works with her team including a hostage negotiator to deliver empathy in conflict training and how to have honest productive conversations.
Belinda has received an OBE in 2015 for services to women in technology, been voted by Forbes as one of the most innovative women on Twitter and been chosen to be a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum. Her new campaign, The Truth About Tech, fights against Tech Addiction and has taken her to Davos in 2019 and had coverage on the front page of the Guardian.
Belinda is currently Empathy-In-Residence at Centrica, one of the world’s biggest utility companies.
Belinda Parmar Speaking-Topics
Belinda Parmar is making waves with her words as a keynote speaker, from highlighting why empathy matters in business in both money and motivational terms, to the contradiction of new technologies and explores what the workforce of tomorrow will look like and the skills we all need in the empathy revolution.
- Diversity
- Cultural Transformation
- The Power of Empathy in Business
- Emotional Intelligence and Technology
Example Speaking Engagements
-Women’s Empowerment roundtable, Microsoft, Davos
-Empathy in the tech industry, Salesforce, Feb
-The Power of Empathy, Technoport conference, Norway, March
-The Future of Work, Private Event, Berlin, March
-Women and Tech, HR Tech World, London, March
-The Future of Work, EY & The Pool, April
-The Commercials of Empathy, Private Event, London, May
-The Power of Empathy in the 4th Industrial Revolution, Microsoft, Athens, May
-The emotion of experience, Adobe Summit EMEA, June
-Can you really measure empathy? Private Event, London, Sept
-Technology is fueling the empathy deficit, TEDx Bergen, October
Books
Little Miss Geek: Bridging The Gap Between Girls and Technology (2nd Edition 2016 with a foreword from Jimmy Wales/Founder of Wikipedia and Martha Lane Fox/ Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho CBE)
The Empathy Era: Women, Business and The New Pathway to Profit