Putting Love at the Center of Work
Welcome
In the end, we are all connected.
The fear and isolation, burnout and disengagement, suboptimal results, and high attrition we see in workplaces are all symptoms of forgetting this truth.
The Center for a Loving Workplace advocates that love is not just a value—it's a human technology for leaders, teams, and organizations: a practice, a habit, a strategic choice, and an instrument for workplace transformation, that optimizes human potential, organizational health, resilience, and adaptive capacity.
Love isn’t soft—it’s the strongest force we have within us to bring people together, heal wounds, and create extraordinary results.
By choosing love-not-fear, we don’t just transform organizations; we transform ourselves and the world around us.
Learn about the Center’s Plans for 2025
The Center’s governing Board is charting a bold new course to expand impact focused on Research and Education in 2025! Read about these important shifts at the button below.
Our Vision
Transforming workplaces with the multi-faceted power of Love so that organizations and people flourish.
Our Mission
To achieve this vision of love-transformed workplaces, the Center for a Loving Workplace creates, curates, and amplifies research and education for a global, heart-centered community.
Our Core Principles
Activate care. Promote responsibility. Respect complexity. Build relational trust. Cultivate joy. Pursue learning and renewal.
Learn the reasons for cultivating a more Loving Workplace
Download our Whitepaper: A Loving Workplace
written by co-founder Renee Smith.
For decades, fear-based systems epitomized by rigid hierarchies, dominating leadership, threatening cultural practices, and punitive metrics have shaped American workplaces, attempting to exert control and uphold standards but eventually harming human well-being and organizational performance. But there’s a proven alternative: a Loving Workplace. Grounded in neuroscience, leadership research, and over 90 interviews, this approach strengthens trust, psychological safety, and connection—key drivers of engagement and retention. At the Center for a Loving Workplace, we help leaders shift from fear to love to create cultures where people and results thrive. If you're ready to reimagine leadership for today’s workforce, download the whitepaper today.
How we create change
Research
We conduct and publish actionable research on love-centered workplace practices based on our Loving Workplace Framework and Maturity Model
Community
We gather a global network of people committed to love to engage, contribute, support and encourage each other in our loving workplace efforts, no matter our workplace or role.
Storytelling
We share our research and stories of organizations, leaders and teams who exemplify love in the culture and operational practices to inspire and guide teams everywhere.
Education
We offer educational programming based on our Loving Workplace Framework, maturity model, case studies, and research insights.
