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Leaders no longer get to choose between relationships and results

Never before in our history has the need for compassion AND accountability been greater. Everything from attracting and retaining top talent, to the success of your belonging initiatives, to your ability to innovate and adapt depends on it. Compassionate Accountability® is the new core competency and next differentiator for great leadership.


Build Your Culture of Compassionate Accountability

The next generation of thriving workplace cultures will be defined by Compassionate Accountability. This book will help you transform your culture in three steps: assess what matters most, develop daily leadership behaviors that make the biggest impact, and implement a framework to sustain positive momentum.

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Who is Compassionate Accountability For?

From wherever you lead, this book will guide you on how to build connection while getting results.

Executive Leaders

Implement a new strategic lens and framework to ensure the success of your most important culture change initiatives.

Mid-Level Leaders

Gain insight into how you can be a catalyst for more healthy, trusting, and productive teams.

Newly Emerging Leaders

Get a toolkit for mastering the most critical interpersonal competencies for success.

I regularly share this book with my clients. Compassionate accountability is a critical paradox and when harnessed can be a tremendous performance accelerator.

Massimo Backus

Executive Coach

Nate and his team have developed a compelling approach to ushering compassion and genuinely constructive conflict into the workplace. Grounded in social science and conveyed in clear-eyed terms, the approach is actionable for even the most results-oriented business leader.

Amy Luckey

Amy Luckey

Work-Life Coach

I have used your model to address two extremely thorny and long standing issues today. In both cases, the result was transformative.

Brenda Dingwall

Brenda Dingwall

Branch Head, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Compassionate Accountability is a bracing corrective to our misperceptions about this trait and a practical guide for deepening anyone’s leadership capabilities.

Dan Pink

Dan Pink

#1 New York Times bestselling author of THE POWER OF REGRET, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN

The servant leadership movement just got a big boost with Dr. Regier’s new book, Compassionate Accountability. If you are ready to upgrade your leadership mindset and skill set, this book is a must read!

Ken Blanchard

Ken Blanchard

Coauthor of The New One Minute Manager® and Servant Leadership in Action

Compassionate Accountability is the roadmap for building leadership cultures that attract and retain the best talent and provide a competitive advantage.

Tacy M Byham, PhD

Tacy M Byham, PhD

CEO, Development Dimensions International (DDI) and co-author of Your First Leadership Job

If you are looking not only for the “Why” for compassionate leadership, but also the “How”, then Compassionate Accountability is a must-read. It includes many actionable steps to “up your game” in compassion and get the results you seek.

Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH

Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH

Professor, Chair & Chief of Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Camden, New Jersey

Nate has done a masterful job of introducing a concept that is both refreshing and results-oriented: Compassionate Accountability. It just might be the secret sauce that your leadership team needs to sample.

Elaine Biech

Elaine Biech

2022 ISA Thought Leader; Author, Skills for Career Success

COMPASSIONATE ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT ANOTHER THEORY BUT AN ACTIONABLE PROCESS for mindfulness, social and emotional intelligence, leadership agility, inclusion, presence, healthy conflict, and resiliency.

Jeff Hayes

Jeff Hayes

President and CEO of The Myers-Briggs Company

Compassionate Accountability distills the essence of what matters most and guides any leader, team, or company on how to build a culture that can flourish even during times of struggle.

Garry Ridge

Garry Ridge

Chairman Emeritus - WD-40 Company & The Culture Coach

Compassionate Accountability provides a practical roadmap for human-centered leaders to build more caring, courageous, compassionate, committed teams.

Karin Hurt

Karin Hurt

CEO, Let’s Grow Leaders

Nate Regier demystifies compassion in leadership and helps make it practical. This is a fantastic playbook for helping change work from the inside out.

Scott Shute

Scott Shute

Former Head of Mindfulness and Compassion Programs at LinkedIn, Author - The Full Body Yes

This book brings together the world’s most talented and thought-provoking community on compassion and weaves their wisdom into the why and how as the chapters carry you along.

Amy Balog

Amy Balog

Principle and Founder, ConnextionPoint Services

Being compassionate and accountable has always been important, and never more so than right now, this moment in time and in the evolution of human beings.

Gloria Cotton

Gloria Cotton

Sr. Partner, inQUEST Consulting

Compassion can be soft or fierce; we can learn this and so much more from Nate's beautifully researched and written book.

Laurel Donnellan

Laurel Donnellan

Founder and CEO, Compassionate Leaders Circle

Compassionate Accountability is more than a book. Nate Regier does a masterful job of showing that compassion and accountability are most powerful when joined together.

Bill Treasurer

Bill Treasurer

Bestselling author of Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbone, Boost Performance, and Get Results

Finally, leaders can stop trying to balance kindness with attention to results – they can have both without compromise. Nate Regier’s latest book is the anthem and roadmap for the next generation of servant leaders.

Jonathan Keyser

Jonathan Keyser

Founder of Keyser Real Estate Brokerage, #1 WSJ Best Selling Author of You Don’t Have To Be Ruthless to Win

Compassionate Accountability Assessment

Are you working through the book and need extra copies of the Appendix? Download the Compassionate Accountability Assessment here.

About the Author

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    Nate Regier

    Co-founder, Owner, Chief Executive Officer

    Since 2008 the team at Next Element has been leading the evolution of compassion at work.

    Nate Regier, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Next Element. He has authored three other books; Beyond Drama, Conflict without Casualties and Seeing People Through. Nate is a sought-after keynote speaker, hosts the OnCompassion with Dr. Nate podcast, writes a weekly blog, and contributes to multiple industry publications, blogs, and podcasts.

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