Anthony Silard Ph.D.

About

Anthony Silard, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Leadership and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Leadership at Luiss Business School in Rome, and the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Anthony is the author of numerous scholarly articles on emotion and leadership with an emphasis on how leaders develop high-quality relationships and manage challenging emotions such as loneliness and secondary trauma. He has coached G-20 cabinet ministers and the CEOs and senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies such as Disney, IBM, and GE and the world’s largest nonprofits such as CARE and Save the Children. He has taught leadership at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, California State University San Bernardino, Claremont McKenna College, and IESE Business School and has lectured on leadership at Harvard, Stanford and Georgetown. His latest book, Love and Suffering: Break the Emotional Chains that Prevent You from Experiencing Love, was released in April 2025.

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Books by Anthony Silard Ph.D.

Recent Posts

The Game You Never Win But Can’t Stop Playing

Step away from the cycle of social comparison and discover a new mindset focused on personal growth and compassion.

How to Be Optimistic Despite Constant Negativity in the News

How can you stay optimistic in the face of constant negative news?

Are You an Optimist or Pessimist About Our Changing World?

Are you generally an optimistic or pessimistic person? How is your general outlook affecting you?

The Power of Screen-Free Togetherness

Being on screens too much distances you from social relationships. If you try a day without screens you may be surprised at what you have been missing.

Want to Transform Your Life? Reclaim Floodlight Thinking

How can you connect with others and your deepest values in our current age of distraction?

The Presence Cure: What Do Other People Most Need From You?

Make the decision to offer other people an important gift: your unmitigated presence.

The Loneliness of Working for Social Change

How can people support social change leaders to sustain their motivation and reduce the loneliness of being out on their own trying to improve the world?

Our Misguided Image of Masculinity Still Prevails

Cooperation and aggression are two controversial dimensions of how men and women interact. We are collectively responsible for updating the image of what a real man is.

Why Our Narcissism Is Growing

Narcissism has notably grown thanks to social media. What can you do about it?

Dating in the Age of Distraction

We now have the possibility of meeting the right partner without departing from behind our beloved megapixels. Yet it all comes crashing down, again and again.