Putting Love at the Center of Work
We believe love can transform the way the world works.
Not as a sentimental idea, but as a practical force — one strong enough to change how leaders lead, how teams show up for each other, and what organizations are capable of.
We believe love isn't just a value. It's a human technology: a practice, a habit, a strategic choice, and an instrument for transformation that unlocks human potential, organizational health, resilience, and adaptive capacity.
Love isn't soft — it's the strongest force we have to bring people together, heal what's broken, and create extraordinary results. When leaders and teams choose love over fear, they don't just transform their organizations. They transform themselves and the world around them.
This is the work we do — will you join us?
Read on to learn how we Create Love, Spread Love, and Transform with Love.
Learn about the Center’s Plans for Impact
The Center’s governing Board is charting a bold new course to expand impact focused on Research and Education. These began in 2025 and are accelerating in 2026! Read about these important shifts at the button below.
How we create change
We create love.
Loving workplaces don't happen by accident — they're built on real insights, methods, and tools, the kind most under-resourced teams never get access to. We research, build, and share what we learn, so any leader or team, anywhere, can put love into practice. The Principles Project, the Loving AI Project, and our upcoming Loving Leadership Development program are just the beginning.
Learn about how we are creating love through the Principles Project and our Loving AI Project.
We transform with love.
Too many mission-driven organizations pour everything into caring for others — while quietly burning out the very people who do the caring. Our Transform with Love support brings coaching, facilitation, and repair work directly to nonprofit leaders and teams, funded by donors, so cost is never the barrier to building a culture strong enough to hold the weight of the mission.
Learn about how we transform NGOs with love.
We spread love.
A world running on fear needs to hear that another way is possible. We're taking that message wide — through social media, speaking engagements, public relations, and the Love Lead Change podcast — carrying the case for loving workplaces to leaders and teams everywhere. Reaching a world that needs this message takes partners who believe in it too, which is why we're actively seeking sponsors to help us spread love boldly and broadly.
Reach out to learn about becoming a Sponsor.
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
Honor the whole person. Foster safety and well-being. Activate care. Get real and keep it real. Create space for healing and repair. 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 CEO and 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.
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