Welcome to Compassionate Leader
We help cultivate leadership skills and work cultures for a better world.

About
Wendy Saunders is the founder of Compassionate Leader, LLC. Wendy has studied mindfulness and compassion intensively since 2012 and has actively integrated these concepts into leadership development and workplace training curriculum for a number of years with the largest non-profit organization in the United States (the YMCA), as well as with other companies and groups.
Fostering Positive Leadership
cultivating mindfulness
Leading with compassion
Enhancing Mental Well-Being
Bring Mindfulness & Compassion to Your Workplace or School
Mindfulness for self-care series
Mindfulness & inclusion series
Leading with compassion series
SEE Learning® training & support
Emory University’s CBCT® Course

Offerings
Compassionate leaders recognize that their full-time staff spend roughly a third of their lives at work. They realize that quality of life for their staff is in large part dependent upon the quality of their life experience during their working hours. Transform your workplace culture—and the quality of life for your staff and colleagues—through leadership development offerings like these:
Leadership Training
- Positive leadership fundamentals
- Developing Engaged, High-Performance Team
- Cultivating emotional intelligence
- Coaching & feedback for leaders
Compassion in Organizations
- Positive approaches to successful change management
- Compassionate reorganizations
- Coaching & feedback for leaders
- Reimagining your organization during COVID-19
Compassion
- Leading with compassion
- Advancing a compassionate work culture
- Finding Self-Compassion in the workplace
- Compassionate reorganizations
Critical Thinking and Thought Leadership
- Critical thinking and thought leadership for a better world
- Introduction to thought leadership journey
- Strengthening critical thinking
- Thought leadership & innovation
Why are organizations and schools investing in mindfulness & compassion?

Less Stress & Anxiety
Learn how to lessen stress and anxiety levels and increase ease, well-being, clarity, focus, and productivity.

Resilience
Become more resilient and work more effectively with challenging emotions, thoughts, and workplace dynamics.

Presence & Connection
Become more present for and with colleagues, staff, family members, and others.

Transform Workplace Culture
Cultivate a more compassionate culture to drive higher staff engagement, retention, and accountability.

Strengthen Leadership Skills
Further develop critical leadership skills, such as emotional intelligence, inclusion, and decision making.

It’s Evidence-Based
Thousands of research studies demonstrate the effectiveness of training in these two skills. Workplace studies available upon request
Reach Out To Us
We’d love to connect with you and learn about your vision for a more compassionate workplace and a better world.