Anita Nowak (she/her)

Anita Nowak, PhD, is an empathy expert, award-winning educator, certified coach, speaker, podcaster, and founder of Purposeful Empathy by Design, a boutique advisory firm that helps purpose-driven organizations create cultures of empathy and social impact. Passionate about mentoring the next generation of changemakers, she teaches Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Happiness Means Business at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management. She is also the author of Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change.