Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth
Whether you’re navigating workplace stress, building stronger team connections, or learning to lead through difficult conversations, these courses give you practical, science-backed tools you can use immediately.
Created by Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth—coach, therapist, former professor, and author of The Compassion Advantage—each self-paced course combines engaging video lessons with downloadable worksheets to help you build lasting skills in compassionate leadership.
Learn to quiet your inner critic and build unshakeable resilience. Discover the three pillars of self-compassion and how to apply them when facing mistakes, stress, and life’s inevitable challenges.
What’s included: 14 self-paced video modules + downloadable worksheets Topics covered:
Introducing self-compassion • Understanding your inner critic • Mindfulness • Common humanity • Self-kindness • Benefits of self-compassion • Your self-compassion toolkit • Finding stillness • Self-compassion after mistakes • Ruthless self-care
Develop the presence and clarity that great leaders embody. Learn mindfulness practices that help you make better decisions, deepen your connection with others, and build resilience in the face of stress and uncertainty.
What’s included: 14 self-paced video modules + downloadable worksheets
Topics covered: Introducing mindfulness • Breath awareness • Deepening presence • Reducing digital distraction • Mindful tech • Better decision-making • Thinking fast and slow • Building gresilience • Pausing practices • Tackling busyness • Letting go • Calm acceptance with courageous action
Master the delicate balance of connecting deeply with others while protecting yourself from burnout. Learn both internal and external boundary-setting skills that allow you to lead with empathy without sacrificing your own wellbeing.
What’s included: 14 self-paced video modules + downloadable worksheets
Topics covered: Introducing boundaried empathy • Human connection and emotion regulation • The business case for empathy • Staying grounded • Banishing fear • The humility of curiosity • Empathic listening • Leading through uncertainty • Courageous vulnerability • Empathic conversations in healthcare • Setting external and internal boundaries • What to do when you’re out of empathy
Tackle the toughest parts of leadership—conflict, critical feedback, difficult decisions, and organizational change—with both courage and compassion. Learn how to say hard things without losing the human connection.
What’s included: 15 self-paced video modules + downloadable worksheets
Topics covered: When leaders do hard things • Clarifying expectations • Navigating conflict • Compassionate disagreement • Soliciting and providing critical feedback • Trust as the foundation • Corrective guidance • Compassionate decision-making • Navigating change and uncertainty • Compassionate innovation • Leading through collective trauma • Rooting into your values
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Get all 4 courses and master the complete framework for compassionate leadership—from building personal resilience to leading others through challenge and change.
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“Andrea was tremendously impactful to me… [she] allowed me to improve myself in ways I couldn’t imagine.” —Ben
“Andrea’s tools and exercises allowed me to return to being a professional I could be proud of again.” —Amy
“Andrea’s courses and practical exercises emphasize the wisdom of the body and the power of gentle self-compassion.” —Karen
Andrea created The Compassion Advantage™ framework because she lived what you’re living.
She climbed to the top of academia—tenure-track professor and program co-chair at a prestigious research university by age 35—through sheer force of will and an absolutely brutal inner critic. She pushed through exhaustion. She said yes to everything. She held herself to impossible standards.
And then she burned out.
Walking away from her dream job was the wake-up call that changed everything. She realized that the strategies that got her there—the relentless self-criticism, the perfectionism, the inability to rest, and the disconnection between mind, body, and spirit—were the same ones destroying her. And she knew she wasn’t alone.
Now, as an organizational consultant, coach, keynote speaker, and author of The Compassion Advantage, Andrea helps leaders break the cycle she knows intimately. Her work is grounded in neuroscience, informed by trauma research, and enlightened by spiritual and wisdom traditions. And it’s delivered with the kind of warmth, authenticity, depth, and straight-talk that only comes from someone who’s walked through the fire. She doesn’t do preachy platitudes or generic fixes. She does real relationships, deep listening, honest dialogue, and practical tools, backed by science—all delivered with warmth and transformation that actually lasts.
Take the Assessment
A quick diagnostic that reveals whether you’re caught in the maladaptive perfectionism trap—and what it’s costing you.
Watch
A 25-minute clip of Andrea speaking on stage about why self-compassion is the antidote to burnout (not what you think it is).
Download
A practical guide for recognizing the signs of burnout and taking your first steps toward sustainable leadership.