The second full week in September celebrates National Compassionate Leadership Week to create a more compassionate world.

#NationalCompassionateLeadershipWeek

Our lives are unpredictable because of constant disruption in our daily routines. As we shuffle our family life with our professional life, we often feel overwhelmed and uncertain. As adults, we look towards other adults as a source of inspiration and reassurance. Oftentimes, we turn to our colleagues for leadership and guidance. Management and other organization leaders everywhere are more than just employers, they are becoming a source of compassion for their employees.

Leading with Compassion

Companies today are faced with the decision to become more active in employee lives. In fact, employees, consumers, and stakeholders are demanding that companies take care of their people, their communities, and the world around them, too. Old expectations of working for the bottom line no longer exists as a company goal. In fact, successful companies today work towards a double bottom line, a balance between strengthening the business and the employees that work there.

Company culture today consists of a new kind of employee who require a new approach to leadership/ Studies show that people entering the workforce are too young, too diverse, too disengaged, too tired of not being heard and respected. Companies that include compassion in their leadership achieve success quickly because performance is always at a peak.

Can you deliver a strong, successful business using compassion?

Absolutely. The most successful companies can be compassionate and deliver strong results in business, education, politics and in our communities. Companies that produce compassionate leaders provide unspoken benefits of increased leadership and productivity, not to mention an increase in morale in the workplace.

How can companies show compassion for their employees?

There are many things a company can do for their employees to show more compassion. Opening communication is a perfect way to learn about company values, expectations, and goals. Most importantly, it’s a great opportunity to give and receive praise and acknowledgement. Forming important bonds within a company helps leaders identify whether an employee is having problems outside of work. In return, knowing those problems is an opportunity to show compassion and offer extra support.

Tips to become a Compassionate Leader

• Offer and attend training to encourage compassionate leadership skills.
• Check in with employees often to take time and listen to them.
• Schedule workshops for employees through human resources.
• Get to know employees and their families.
• Join the Compassionate Leader Movement.
• Attend the Compassionate Leadership Conference in 2024 during Compassionate Leadership Week.
  Take the necessary time to listen to the stories of others and embrace their sense of relevancy as well as any pain they may be experiencing.
• Nominate a leader on the TramutoPorter Foundation website who has demonstrated by example empathy in action for the Compassionate Leadership Award to be awarded each year during the Compassionate Leadership Week.

The TramutoPorter Foundation

For over 22 years, the TramutoPorter Foundation has been a leader in expanding compassionate leadership in the workplace. Our mission to create a more compassionate world has allowed us to form partnerships to help solve challenges in business, education, politics, and within families.

The TramutoPorter Foundation has been working on behalf of several compassionate causes. We have implemented a scholarship fund to support students who have lived through and risen above adversity. The foundation formed a partnership with the RFK Human Rights Organization to create a program to promote workplace dignity. In addition, we have been working together to gather life-saving supplies for refugees feeling Ukraine. The foundation also announced a new partnership with Boston University that includes an endowment for scholarships in its school of public health. The endowment will support more compassionate approaches to solving global health challenges. Most importantly, it will create programming that will deliver a compassionate leadership curriculum to be delivered digitally.

Our Values

Compassion
Connection
Collaboration
Creativity
Humanity

History

Donato Tramuto and National Day Calendar created National Compassionate Leadership Week to be celebrated the second full week of September each year. For 2024, the week will begin September 8th – 14th

The TramutoPorter Foundation was created in 2001 by Donato Tramuto and his longtime partner and Co-Founder Jeffrey Porter, after Donato lost two close friends and their son on 9/11 after visiting him in Maine. Donato was planning to join his friends on that day and a last-minute dental emergency prevented him from joining his friends and decided to Los Angeles the night before. Sadly, Donato’s friends perished in the plane that hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center that day.

Donato was devastated by the tragic event and the loss of his friends. Instead of letting grief and anger consume him, he decided to create the foundation in their memory. Today, the memory of
his friends and those who lost their lives that tragic day lives in Donato’s heart. He continues to dedicate his life to spreading compassion and understanding in the world to help solve problems, particularly in areas of health, education, and human rights.

Compassion Movement

Tramuto and Porter continue to spread its message of compassion through Compassionate Leadership Week. This week celebrates compassionate leaders by bringing attention to the proven benefits of compassionate leadership. It shows through their own example and many other leaders, that it’s possible to be compassionate while delivering strong results whether it be in business, education, politics or in our own families and communities.

In 2021, the TramutoPorter Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary by pledging to expand its compassionate work envisioning compassion movement. In April 2022, the foundation launched a new book, authored by Tramuto, called The Double Bottom Line: How Compassionate Leaders Captivate Hearts and Deliver Results. The book and Tramuto were featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Investor’s Business Daily, Katie Couric Media and many other media outlets.