Dr. Annie McKee
Bestselling Author, Emotional Intelligence Expert and Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
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Bestselling author, academic, and speaker Annie McKee, PhD is a sought-after advisor to leaders of Fortune 500 companies, governments, and NGOs around the globe. She has co-authored groundbreaking Harvard Business Review books on the power of emotional intelligence to change how we lead and engage with one another in our work, including Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, Resonant Leadership with Boyatzis, and Becoming a Resonant Leader with Boyatzis and Frances Johnston. Dr. McKee is also the author of Management: A Focus on Leaders. Named one of the Top 100 leaders by BusinessWeek, she has been called the “high priestess of executive coaching.”
A Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, McKee teaches and leads the PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program and the Penn MedEd Master’s program, as well as teaching at the Wharton School’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education.
Based on her popular Harvard Business Review article, “Being Happy at Work Matters,” Dr. McKee’s 2017 book, How to Be Happy at Work: The Power of Purpose, Hope, and Friendship, draws from extensive research and decades of experience to deliver a hands-on guide with practical exercises and instructions for how to be happy at work—no matter what job you have. McKee’s vivid and moving real-life stories show how to use purpose, hope, and friendship to create and sustain happiness and ensure a healthy, positive climate for teams and throughout organizations.
Books by Dr. Annie McKee
Videos featuring Dr. Annie McKee
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What are some thing I can do that will truly make a difference?
Dr. Annie McKeeMost of us want to make a difference and some of us actually want to change the world. If we do want to make a difference and change the world then we have got to take ourselves seriously.
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What is a good way to start developing your emotional intelligence?
Dr. Annie McKeeIt is great to be able to take up the topic of emotional intelligence with peers, colleagues and new friends. It helps to be able to talk about these ideas. It's even great to read a book about emotional intelligence.
Articles by Dr. Annie McKee
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How to be Happy at Work: The Power of Hope
Dr. Annie McKeeLife really is too short to be unhappy at work Yet far too many of us aren’t even close to being content—much less delighted—with our work or our workplaces. Instead, we are stressed and exhausted. We can’t remember what we used to love about our jobs.
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Life is Too Short to be Unhappy at Work
Dr. Annie McKeeLife really is too short to be unhappy at work. Yet far too many of us aren’t even close to being content—much less delighted—with our work or our workplaces. Instead, we are stressed and exhausted. We can’t remember what we used to love about our jobs.
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