Researcher, author, speaker focusing on emotional intelligence, burnout, and resilience research.
Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024.
Left a lucrative career in management consulting to study burnout.
Triple distinctions for proposal hearing, final defence hearing, and dissertation research, University of Pennsylvania.
In her 2024 book, Burnout Immunity, Kandi explores the growing problem of burnout and provides practical strategies for individuals to build resilience and cultivate a healthier relationship with work. Drawing on her extensive research, Kandi identifies the common thread between those who manage to avoid burnout at work, despite high levels of stress: they exhibit a high degree of emotional intelligence (EI). EI skills, she explains, help them to perceive, understand, and manage emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Kandi provides practical tips for how to cultivate and develop EI skills through five key areas: awareness, regulation, meaningful connections, mindset, and 3Rx methods — recover, reconnect, and reimagine.
Senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Kandi is also co-director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education Program and the Penn Health Professions Education Certificate Program, and Academic director of the PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program. She frequently teaches graduate-level and executive format programs across UPenn, including The Graduate School of Education and Wharton Executive Education. and Wharton Executive Education. She received her EdD from the University of Pennsylvania, MBA from the University of Oregon, and bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana. Since 2017, Kandi has served as a faculty member and leadership coach for the Police Executive Leadership Institute (PELI).
Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work (Harper Business, Spring 2024). ‘Your Burnout Is Trying to Tell You Something’ (Harvard Business Review, January 2024); ‘Stop Overworking After Vacation’ (with Darin Rowell, Harvard Business Review, September 2023); ‘Has Cynicism Infected Your Organization’ (Harvard Business Review, May 2023); ‘Reeling From a Sudden Job Loss? Here’s How to Start Healing’ (with Silviana Falcon, Harvard Business Review, July 2022); ‘Are You Burned Out Or Is It Something Else?’ (with Peter Loper, Harvard Business Review, October 2021); ‘How to Embrace Change Using Emotional Intelligence’ (with Darin Rowell, Harvard Business Review, December 2018).
“Kandi addresses one of the most widespread obstacles to success and fulfilment at work and provides practical steps to overcome it.”
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50
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