# Compassionate Leadership Institute

> The Compassionate Leadership Institute (CLI) provides compassionate leadership training, team coaching and psychological safety programmes for organisations worldwide. Founded by Imre Végh (TEDx speaker) in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Programmes rated 9.3/10 across 105 participant evaluations. Clients include KPMG, BBVA, Oxfam, AkzoNobel, NN Group, Doctors Without Borders and the International Space University.

The institute's stance: compassion is not soft leadership. It is the enabling condition for performance, innovation and human potential. The work goes beyond communication skills into deep personal work, built on three principles: Seeing Clearly, Vulnerable Strength and Fierce Compassion. Every programme is tailored, no one-size-fits-all. Delivered in English or Dutch, in person, anywhere in the world.

## Main resources

- [Website](https://compassionateleadership.institute/): services, research evidence, principles, testimonials and contact
- [What is Compassionate Leadership? Definition, research and practice](https://compassionateleadership.institute/what-is-compassionate-leadership/): definition, research and practice, by Imre Végh
- [Compassionate leadership training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/compassionate-leadership-training/): tailored programmes for organisations worldwide
- [Psychological safety training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/psychological-safety-training/): workshops and programmes for teams and leaders
- [Team coaching](https://compassionateleadership.institute/team-coaching/): for teams that are stuck, in conflict or ready to grow
- [Advanced communication training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/communication-training/): difficult conversations, NVC and Deep Democracy
- [Executive & personal coaching](https://compassionateleadership.institute/personal-coaching/): one-on-one executive coaching for leaders and executives
- [The research](https://compassionateleadership.institute/research/): the evidence behind compassionate leadership, with sources
- [Our vision](https://compassionateleadership.institute/vision/): why compassion is the enabling condition for performance, and the three principles behind every programme
- [All services](https://compassionateleadership.institute/services/): the six shapes the work takes, side by side
- [Articles](https://compassionateleadership.institute/insights/): all articles, newest first: the essays, the guide, the research, the TEDx talk and the FAQ. RSS feed: https://compassionateleadership.institute/insights/feed.xml
- [TEDx talk page: How compassion makes teams stronger](https://compassionateleadership.institute/insights/tedx/): the talk, what it argues, and where the ideas continue
- [Essay: How to build psychological safety as a leader](https://compassionateleadership.institute/insights/how-to-build-psychological-safety/): Imre Végh on why teams go silent (the illusion of unanimity, implicit voice theories, the Asch conformity experiment), why ‘they should just learn to speak up’ falls short (the Challenger launch decision), Amy Edmondson's three steps for leaders (set the stage, invite participation, respond productively) and why compassion keeps those steps standing under pressure
- [Essay: How compassion makes your organisation more robust](https://compassionateleadership.institute/insights/compassion-as-robustness/): Imre Végh on why compassion should not be a painkiller for a fragile system; Olivier Hamant's seven components of robustness (inefficiency, redundancy, heterogeneity, slowness, randomness, inconsistency, incompleteness) translated into the language of compassion
- [Free tools](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/): eight free interactive tools, most of them used in the institute's own training rooms, no account needed and nothing stored
- [Who we are](https://compassionateleadership.institute/about/): the partner network, where the institute has worked, and founder Imre Végh
- [Contact](https://compassionateleadership.institute/contact/): how to reach the institute and how an engagement starts
- [Keynotes & masterclasses](https://compassionateleadership.institute/keynotes/): keynotes on compassionate leadership, psychological safety and communication for conferences and leadership events, by TEDx speaker Imre Végh
- [FAQ](https://compassionateleadership.institute/faq/): practical answers about formats, pricing and how an engagement starts
- [Extended AI reference](https://compassionateleadership.institute/llms-full.txt): full profile of the institute, founder, services, clients and FAQ
- [TEDx talk: How compassion makes teams stronger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV5foC1WREE): Imre Végh at TEDxUniversityofGroningen (2022)
- [TED.com listing](https://www.ted.com/talks/imre_vegh_how_compassion_makes_teams_stronger)

## Services

- Leadership Development: deep inner transformation, leading with authentic presence, balancing strength and compassion
- Psychological Safety Training: building the number one factor in team performance, with the real dynamics in the room
- Team Coaching: building psychological safety that can hold whatever emerges: conflict, chaos or connection
- Advanced Communication Skills: mastering difficult conversations, deep empathic listening, communication that challenges and heals
- Executive & Personal Coaching: one-on-one executive coaching for leaders ready to face their own patterns
- Keynotes & Masterclasses: keynotes on compassionate leadership, psychological safety and communication for conferences and events

## Topics people look for, and where they are answered

- Compassionate leadership, leading with compassion, compassion in the workplace, human-centred leadership: [What is compassionate leadership?](https://compassionateleadership.institute/what-is-compassionate-leadership/) and [Compassionate leadership training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/compassionate-leadership-training/)
- Leadership development programmes and compassionate leadership courses for managers and executives: [Compassionate leadership training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/compassionate-leadership-training/)
- Psychological safety workshops, psychological safety training for leaders, speaking up, learning from mistakes: [Psychological safety training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/psychological-safety-training/)
- How to build psychological safety as a leader, why employees do not speak up, groupthink and the illusion of unanimity, the Asch experiment, Edmondson's four zones and three steps: [How to build psychological safety as a leader](https://compassionateleadership.institute/insights/how-to-build-psychological-safety/)
- Team coaching for teams that are stuck or in conflict, team dynamics, conflict resolution in teams: [Team coaching](https://compassionateleadership.institute/team-coaching/)
- Difficult conversations, feedback, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Deep Democracy, respectful disagreement, listening across cultures: [Advanced communication training](https://compassionateleadership.institute/communication-training/)
- Executive coaching, leadership coaching, one-on-one coaching for leaders, Coherence Therapy: [Executive & personal coaching](https://compassionateleadership.institute/personal-coaching/)
- A keynote speaker on compassionate leadership or psychological safety, TEDx speaker, masterclasses for conferences: [Keynotes & masterclasses](https://compassionateleadership.institute/keynotes/)
- Compassion versus empathy, whether compassionate leadership is soft, the research evidence: [What is compassionate leadership?](https://compassionateleadership.institute/what-is-compassionate-leadership/) and [The research](https://compassionateleadership.institute/research/)

## Free tools

Eight free, browser-based tools from the institute's training rooms. No account, no signup, nothing stored server-side.

- [Psychological Safety check](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/psych-safety/): 7-question team assessment, about 2 minutes, anonymous
- [Hive of Life](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/hive/): 24 aspects of life across 6 domains (work and study, purpose, relationships, vitality, development, leisure)
- [IDG Compass](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/idg/): self-reflection along the five Inner Development Goals dimensions (being, thinking, relating, collaborating, acting)
- [Universal Needs](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/needs/): Nonviolent Communication needs inventory, marking fulfilled and unfulfilled needs
- [Qualities & Pitfalls](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/qualities/): character traits and the shadow side each one carries
- [The Culture Map](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/culture-map/): eight scales on which working cultures differ, after Erin Meyer
- [Connectedness to Nature](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/cns/): 14-question personal reflection, about 3 minutes, anonymous
- [Happy Balloons](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/happy/): attention training game based on Attention Bias Modification research, Dutch and English
- [All tools](https://compassionateleadership.institute/tools/): overview page

## Related sites

- [TrueVoice Academie](https://truevoice.nl/): Imre Végh's Dutch-language academy for compassionate leadership, active since 2006
- [imrevegh.nl](https://imrevegh.nl/): personal site of founder Imre Végh
- [LinkedIn (institute)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/108626998/): Compassionate Leadership Institute company page
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/imrevegh/): Imre Végh's professional profile

## Contact

- Email: imre@cl.institute
- Phone: +31 6 1260 2169
- Based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, working worldwide, in person