004: An Impactful 60+ Life & Career Reset with Founders Laura Berland & Evan Harrel

60+ Best Life

Evan Harrel and Laura Berland are the co-founders of the Center for Compassionate Leadership, whose mission is to advance compassionate methods of leadership by integrating the best practices of modern leadership, evidence-based science, and contemplative wisdom. As the Center's Chief Operating Officer, Evan leads the Center’s thought leadership efforts, the integration of scientific and business research into the work of the Center, and the development and delivery of the Center’s leadership training programs. Through the Center’s collaboration with the Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics at the Task Force for Global Health, Evan has worked extensively with leaders in the public health field from all over the world. Evan has also taught compassion to many other nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Prior to working in the non-profit sector, Evan was an investment manager for over twenty years, where he managed a thirty-billion-dollar equity mutual fund. He was awarded a Master of Business Administration degree, with distinction, from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Princeton University.
Laura is the Center’s Executive Director. Laura developed the Center’s research-proven Compassionate Leadership Model, which has been the foundation for engaging thousands of leaders from over 60 countries to embrace the practice of compassion from the inside out. For over 40 years, Laura has been a weaver of transformative organizations and experiences, as a serial tech entrepreneur, Fortune 500 executive, meditation educator, yoga therapist, master facilitator, non-profit board member, executive advisor, and digital media creator. Laura is an alumna of Cornell University and New York University.
Evan and Laura are here to share their professional and personal journeys and how they got to where they are today. Their story includes transitional moments, especially while they were in their 50s, which many of us can relate to. We talk about the courage to step out of structure and all the ways our 60s were and weren’t what we had thought they would be. Evan and Laura share their wisdom around building resilience and what helped them through their transitional phases. We also discuss building contemplative practices like yoga and meditation, how Evan and Laura made their career shifts, and what it’s like for them to work together at the Center for Compassionate Leadership.
What’s Inside:

• Stories from Evan and Laura’s transformational journeys.
• How to build resilience through transitions.
• How Evan and Laura made powerful career shifts.
• The power of inner connection and contemplative practices.

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