Generous Work: Practice What You Read with Rebecca Sutherns

​You’ve read the book. Maybe you highlighted half of it, quoted it in a meeting, or passed it along to a colleague. But six months later, does your work actually look any different?

​For our first Generous Work session, we’re tackling the gap between the ideas on our shelves and the way we spend our days. How do we choose which ideas are worth trying? What helps a change stick once the first burst of inspiration fades? And how do we grow without turning self-improvement into one more item on an already full to-do list?

​Our guest has thought about this more than most. Since 2019, Dr. Rebecca Sutherns has run Wiser by Choice, a book club where she reads hundreds of books on work, leadership, and life and distills them for people who don’t have time to read them all. She’s also a facilitator, strategist, and coach who helps people and organizations navigate change, so she knows the difference between a good idea and a changed habit.

​You’ll hear from Rebecca, compare notes with a few fellow attendees in small breakout groups, and leave with one small experiment you’ve chosen to try in your own work.

​Bring your curiosity, and maybe a book that changed what you think but not (yet) what you do.

​About Generous Work

​Generous Work is a free, global community of practice for people who work in collaborative teams. We choose to invest in ourselves, each other, and our customers in ways that look costly in a spreadsheet but pay off over time.

​Each month, we meet live with a guest to try out ideas from researchers and authors on everything from our calendars to our relationships, and talk honestly about what works. Between sessions, the conversation continues in our LinkedIn group.

​Our goal: to bring more of our uniquely human strengths into our work — initiative, creativity, wisdom, and, of course, generosity.