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She Escaped Tehran With a Suitcase — Now She Teaches Northwestern Law Students How Empathy Wins Negotiations
Shermin Kruse began writing poetry in Farsi at age ten to process life under war and political oppression in Tehran. Her family immigrated to Canada with almost nothing. She eventually became a corporate attorney, a Northwestern law professor, and the author of Stoic Empathy — required reading in Northwestern's advanced negotiation course. Her concept of stoic empathy is not soft. It is strategic. The combination of emotional restraint and deep empathic insight that she teaches CEOs, policymakers, and law students creates the kind of unshakeable presence and influence that neither pure logic…
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