Why Acts of Kindness Should Not be an Act | | TEDxUniversityofDelaware

Intentional, purposeful kindness is a learnable practice and because the positive effects of kindness are experienced whether you are giving, receiving or observing kindness, by practicing kindness we all benefit. In her TEDx talk, Andrea Everard encourages the practice of intentional kindness to improve leadership effectiveness.

Andrea Everard is a Professor of Management Information Systems, the Director of the MS Business Analytics and Information Management and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Lerner College of Business. She strives to leave things better than she finds them and strongly believes that kindness should be the guiding principle of leadership. Andrea Everard is a Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware and also serves as the Director of the Business Analytics and Information Management graduate program and as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Lerner College of Business. She primarily teaches IT Leadership and Strategic Management Information Systems and conducts research in Human-Computer Interaction and Cross-Cultural and Gender Issues in Information Systems. Born in Kenya to a British father and an Austrian mother, she was raised in Montreal, Canada and moved to the US in 1999. She considers herself a citizen of the world and enjoys meeting and getting to know people from different nations. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx