Belinda Parmar
Belinda Parmar OBE is the founder and CEO of The Empathy Business, an award-winning consultancy transforming how organisations lead, communicate, and collaborate. A global authority on empathy in business, Belinda helps leaders turn emotional intelligence into measurable impact, strengthening teams, improving communication, and creating cultures where people thrive.
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Belinda uses the science of empathy to change the way we lead at work. Leader of the year according to the HR Awards 2022, she is the creator of the Global Empathy Index published in the Harvard Business Review, which is the first index to measure empathy and inclusion at scale.
As a diversity campaigner and CEO of The Empathy Business, Belinda works alongside leaders of large organisations to transform companies using the power of empathy in a post-COVID world. Belinda changes cultures to bring more empowerment to people’s lives with a focus on belonging and diversity.
Belinda is an expert in behavioural science and nudge theory and works with large companies to implement hundreds of ‘empathy nudges’ that organically build an empathy revolution and give people simple, practical ways they can bring more empathy to work. Her book Little Miss Geek inspires young girls in schools to become tech pioneers, and this prevalence in the tech world has led to her being shortlisted for the 2022 Women in IT awards.
Belinda specialises in resilience, language and conflict resolution. Belinda was Empathy-In-Residence at Barclays, Lloyds,and Centrica, and set up an Empathy Hub in Europe’s largest bank. Belinda was chosen in 2019 to speak at Davos as she is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum. Belinda was awarded an OBE in 2015 by the Queen for her services to women in technology and was voted one of the top 20 Global Public Figures in Diversity in 2020.
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