Put Emotion Back in Business
Nine peer-reviewed studies. Thirty years in rooms where emotion was the whole job. One argument: workplaces that treat emotional life as a strategic input win — for employees, teams, customers, and the bottom line.
Put Emotion Back In Business
A working actor, comedian, and interviewer sits down with three decades of hard evidence and asks the question every leader avoids: what if the emotional life of the workplace is not a distraction from the business — but the substrate that makes business possible?
Psychological safety predicts task performance, engagement, and learning behaviors across industries.
Antoinette & Friends
On Craft & Courage
A conversation about beginnings, Brooklyn, and betting on yourself — with a working actor who kept the faith.
The Research Behind The Book
Task performance across 136 independent samples. Learning behaviors: ρ = .62. Engagement: ρ = .45.
Compassion at work is a sensemaking event — it generates positive emotion, which mediates deep organizational commitment.
Longitudinal study: companionate love reduced absenteeism, exhaustion, and — for clients — ER transfers. Culture is operational.
Read Recent
Fear doesn't show up in your quarterly report until the damage is done. Here's what 136 independent research samples tell us about the price of interpersonal risk.
A 16-month longitudinal study of care in a nursing home ended up being a business book. Here's the moment I realized it.
The book is not about making everyone feel. It's about noticing what's already there — and how much of it your organization was quietly built on top of.
Comedy Store paid regular since 2009 — discovered by Mitzi Shore herself.
Antoinette & Friends, filmed by Norman Seeff. Conversations as a cultural archive.
"The Wedding Buddha" — fifteen years producing unforgettable events in Los Angeles.
The book: peer-reviewed evidence for compassion as business strategy.