Study Insight:
A study by Sigal Barsade & Olivia O’Neill (2014) found that a culture of companionate love—defined by warmth, affection, and compassion—led to greater employee satisfaction, teamwork, and lower absenteeism.

 

Heart Work Application:
The Heart Work Profile® Leader Assessment measures expressive zones of the heart, mind, wellness, and leadership. By quantifying how love shows up in leadership behaviors, we help leaders identify how their capacity to connect impacts performance, retention, and outcomes.

Study Insight:
Gallup’s global research shows that employees who feel cared for by their manager are significantly more likely to be engaged and 63% less likely to experience burnout.

 

Heart Work Application:
Both the Growth and Leader versions of the Heart Work Profile® include developmental prompts to support coaching with love, purpose, and empathy. Our tools equip organizations to translate care into performance feedback, development plans, and inclusive leadership practices.

The Heart Work Profile® and heartsy Index™ aren’t just feel-good tools.

 

They’re research-informed systems built to:

• Measure what matters (expressions of heart, leadership presence, culture alignment).

• Reveal insights that traditional assessments miss (empathy, belonging, psychological safety).

• Activate strategies to increase leadership effectiveness, organizational well-being, and bottom-line results—by centering love.

Study Insight:

In a 2023 quantitative study on Love’s Association with Leader-Follower Relationships and Organizational Performance, Dr. Glenn A. Thomas, Jr. (founder of Heart Work™ Leadership Group and heartsy™) examines how leaders' expressions of love influence relational dynamics and organizational success. This research positions love as a measurable leadership competency essential for the evolving workplace and finds that love (specifically intimacy) increases organizational performance by more than 16%.