Unlock The Compassion Advantage™ and elevate performance through care-driven leadership with Andrea Hollingsworth, Ph.D.
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What Dr. Hollingsworth delivered was very impactful for everyone… her material is so spot on, action oriented, and applies to everyone whether in work or personal environments. Highly recommend bringing her in!!
Lara Hedegaard
Wellbeing Program Manager Red Wing Shoe Company
Andrea Hollingsworth, Ph.D., brings a fresh and grounded perspective to leadership by showing how compassion directly fuels performance. With more than 15 years of experience, she helps organizations build stronger teams, improve engagement, and navigate change with confidence. Her keynotes combine academic depth with real-world relevance, giving leaders practical tools they can use right away. Through her signature framework, The Compassion Advantage™, she equips organizations to create cultures where people thrive and results follow.
Andrea Hollingsworth, Ph.D., is a globally recognized keynote speaker specializing in compassionate leadership, emotional intelligence, and human connection. With over 15 years of experience, she works with organizations that want to strengthen performance while building healthier, more engaged workplace cultures. Her approach is grounded in both science and application, making her a trusted voice for leaders navigating complexity and change.
Andrea’s work centers on a simple but powerful idea: when people feel valued and understood, they perform at a higher level. Through her keynotes, she demonstrates how compassion is not a soft skill, but a strategic advantage that drives measurable outcomes across teams and organizations.
At the core of Andrea’s work is her framework, The Compassion Advantage™. This approach provides leaders with clear, actionable strategies to foster trust, strengthen relationships, and create resilient teams. Rather than focusing on theory alone, Andrea translates research into tools that can be implemented immediately.
Her framework helps organizations:
By focusing on human connection, leaders are better equipped to align performance goals with employee well-being, creating sustainable success.
Andrea’s expertise is shaped by an impressive academic background and global teaching experience. She has taught at institutions such as Princeton, Boston University, and Loyola University Chicago, and delivered talks at internationally respected universities including Cambridge and Heidelberg.
Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, placing her among the most respected voices in her field. This strong academic foundation allows her to deliver insights that are both credible and highly relevant to modern organizations.
What sets Andrea apart is her ability to translate complex research into clear, relatable ideas that resonate with diverse audiences, from executives to frontline teams.
Andrea Hollingsworth is known for delivering keynotes that are engaging, practical, and results-driven. Her presentations go beyond inspiration, offering concrete steps leaders can take to improve team dynamics and performance immediately.
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Her storytelling style, combined with evidence-based insights, ensures that her message is both memorable and actionable.
Organizations choose to book Andrea Hollingsworth when they want more than motivation, they want lasting impact. Her keynotes are ideal for conferences, leadership summits, executive retreats, and company-wide events focused on growth and transformation.
Andrea works closely with clients to tailor her content to their specific challenges and goals, ensuring every presentation feels relevant and immediately useful. Whether addressing large audiences or intimate leadership groups, she creates an experience that inspires reflection, connection, and action.
Andrea Hollingsworth shows that compassion and performance go hand in hand. By helping leaders create environments built on trust, care, and accountability, she enables organizations to unlock higher levels of engagement, innovation, and long-term success.
Her message is clear: when leaders lead with compassion, people perform at their best and organizations move forward with strength and purpose.
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What Dr. Hollingsworth delivered was very impactful for everyone… her material is so spot on, action oriented, and applies to everyone whether in work or personal environments. Highly recommend bringing her in!!
Lara Hedegaard Wellbeing Program Manager Red Wing Shoe Company
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Wow!! One of the best speakers I’ve heard!
Kurtis Karn Associate, Vice President Talent Acquisition KLJ Engineering and Planning
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I hired Dr. Andrea to open our annual Las Vegas Employee Values Conference, and she was amazing. Her keynote was incredibly engaging and informative. And in terms of audience reception, it was a home run. I highly recommend Dr. Andrea to anyone looking for an unforgettable keynote speaker.
Robin McCartney Organizational Training and Development City of Las Vegas
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Andrea’s engaging keynote on compassionate agility sparked an awesome dialogue amongst our executive leaders about how to balance care and efficiency in times of change. Her session combined intellectual expertise with relatable stories and implementable takeaways, leaving our team strengthened, inspired, and surer than ever that there’s ‘no tradeoff between care and progress.
Paula Niemann, Head of Talent Global Portfolio Division Takeda Pharmaceuticals
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Truly impactful! Dr. Andrea’s insights were not only thought-provoking but also actionable, giving me confidence in taking my company to the next level.
Cory Cheyne, Owner Nurses at Home, Inc.
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Dr. Andrea doesn’t just bring knowledge to the table—she brings a unique blend of academic rigor, strategic foresight, and a natural ability to inspire those around her. For anyone seeking a professional who operates at the intersection of intellect, integrity, and influence, I cannot recommend Andrea highly enough. She’s truly exceptional.
Mick Hunt, CEO Premiere Strategy Box
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As DEIB Council Chair at Woodruff Sawyer, I hired Dr. Andrea to provide a virtual keynote on the power of compassionate human connection amid difference and uncertainty. And WOW, did she deliver! The employee feedback from her presentation was overwhelmingly glowing. We loved her stories, interactive elements, and practical takeaways for building understanding amid the complexities and uncertainties of the world we're navigating. Dr. Andrea didn't just inspire us to value compassion; she taught us how to do it. A truly transformative and unforgettable experience!
Kimberly Hede, Senior Account Manager Woodruff Sawyer
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In today's dynamic world of work, supportive cultures of care have become integral to success. Without the right balance of compassion and accountability, leaders risk losing their best people.
In this impactful keynote, Dr. Andrea shares a powerful framework for navigating challenge and change with the highest levels of emotional intelligence, so we can help those we lead do the same.
The result? More effective leaders, happier employees, and more cohesive, connected, and collaborative teams.
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Mistakes can feel like monumental setbacks. But what if our failures, flaws, and foibles held the key to unlocking our true potential?
In this empowering talk, Dr. Andrea explores the transformative power of radical self-compassion in the workplace and beyond. By reframing our worst fears and failures into opportunities to shine, she explores how we can find resilience and renewal in the face of life’s inevitable messes and mishaps.
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How can leaders maintain a high level of caring connection while dexterously guiding people through difficult, new, complex, unpopular, or otherwise stress-inducing circumstances?
In this keynote geared toward audiences facing uncertainty and change, Dr. Andrea shares stories, science, and practical tools for practicing compassionate agility – defined as “the ability to prioritize empathic connection and support, while deftly and boldly navigating challenge and change.”
Your audience will walk away enriched with practical wisdom, inspiring examples, and actionable strategies for doing and saying hard things in connected, genuine, and human ways.
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