Our Leadership
and Founding Fellows

Ari Cowan: Director-General — International Center for Compassionate Organizations - Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Tony Belak, JD: Associate Director-General — International Center for Compassionate Organizations - Louisville, Kentucky, USA

IN MEMORIUM: Maurice Irfan Coles — Chief Executive Officer, The CoED Foundation; Past Senior Fellow ( Education), the Darwin International Institute for the Study of Compassion - Birmingham, UK

James R. Doty, MD — Director and Founder, the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE); Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University - Stanford, California USA

Jane Dutton, PhD — Robert L. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Vicky J. Edmonds — Poet, Emotional Intelligence Educator - Seattle, Washington, USA

Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBE — Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust; Professor of Clinical Psychology, the University of Derby; Founder of The Compassionate Mind Foundation - Derby, UK

Mesut Idriz, PhD —Professor, Department of History and Islamic Civilization/Director of SIFHAMS, University of Sharjah - Sharjah, UAE

Jason Kanov, PhD — Professor, College of Business and Economics, Western Washington University - Bellingham, Washington, USA

Farhad Karamally — Director, Funverks - Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Isabelle Leboeuf, PhD — Psychologist, psychotherapist - Seclin, France

Tori Murden McClure, MDiv JD MFA — President, Spalding University - Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Helen McConnell, PhD — Senior Development and Communications Professional - Washington, DC, USA

Lidewij Niezink, PhD — Independent scholar, psychologist, educator - Bergerac, France

Vinciane Rycroft — Director and Co-Founder, Mind with Heart; Coordinator and Co-Founder, Empathy and Compassion in Society - London, UK

Elli Tholouli —Psychologist, psychotherapist, researching and promoting compassion focused approaches in mental health, education, and the community - Athens, Greece

Monica Worline, PhD — CEO, EnlivenWork; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan; Research Scientist, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University - Stanford, California, USA

David C. Yamada, JD — Professor of Law and Director, New Workplace Institute; Co-Director Employment Law, Suffolk University - Boston, Massachusetts, USA