Anita Nowak, PhD,is an empathy expert, author, speaker, podcaster, award-winning educator, certified coach, and founder of Purposeful Empathy by Design, a boutique advisory firm that helps purpose-driven organizations create cultures of empathy and social impact. Passionate about mentoring the next generation of changemakers, she teaches Happiness Means Business and Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management. She is also on faculty with the McGill Executive Institute. She is the author of Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change (2023).