Elevating the Human Experience

Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work

Amelia Dunlop

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781119791348
• eBook ISBN: 9781119791355
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Wall Street Journal bestseller Have you ever struggled to feel worthy at work? Do you know or lead people who do?

When Amelia Dunlop first heard the phrase "elevating the human experience" in a leadership team meeting with her boss, she thought, "He is crazy if he thinks we will ever say those words out loud to each other much less to a potential client."

We've been conditioned to separate our personal and professional selves, but work is fundamental to our human experience. Love and worth have a place in work because our humanity and authentic identities make our work better. The acknowledgement of our intrinsic worth as human beings and the nurturing of our own or another's growth through love ultimately contribute to higher performance and organizational growth. Now as the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital, a leading Experience Consultancy, Amelia Dunlop knows we must embrace elevating the human experience for the advancement and success of ourselves and our organizations.

This book integrates the findings of a quantitative study to better understand feelings of love and worth in the workplace and introduces three paths that allow individuals to create the professional experience they desire for themselves, their teams, and their clients.

• The first path explores the path of the self, an inward path where we learn to love ourselves when we show up for work, and examines the obstacles that hinder us.
• The second path centers around learning to love and recognize the worth of another in our lives, adding to the worth we feel and providing a source of meaning to our lives.
• The third path considers the community of work and learning to love and recognize the worth of those we meet every day at work, especially for those who may be systematically marginalized, unseen, or unrepresented.

Drawing on her own personal journey to find love and worth at work in her twenty-year career as a management consultant, Amelia also weaves together insights from philosophers, theologians, and sociologists with the stories of people from diverse backgrounds gathered during her research.

Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work is for anyone who has felt the struggle to feel worthy at work, as well as for those who have no idea what it may feel like to struggle every day just to feel loved and worthy, but love people and lead people who do. It's a practical approach to elevating the human experience that will lead to important conversations about values and purpose, and ultimately, meaningful change.

Appendix A

Love and Worth Quantitative Research

Methodology

Research Motivation

• The goal of the quantitative survey was to better understand feelings of love and worth both in general and specifically in the workplace. We wanted to understand whether the importance of love and worth and experiences with feeling love and worth differed across demographics and other experiences.

Survey Details

• The survey was conducted with 6,000 people in the US online between October 28, 2020, and November 2, 2020.
• The survey included a total of 12 primary questions with 63 sub-questions (see full list below), and it took respondents approximately 15 minutes to complete.
• The sample was representative of the US population and random, except for quotas for company size (aiming for a roughly even spread between large for-profit organizations, medium...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• Introduction
• Foundation
• The First Path: Self
• The Second Path: Another
• The Third Path: Community of Work
• Resources
• Conclusion
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• End User License Agreement