sHeroes: How Dr. Tracy Chang, a Professor at Rutgers University is helping her students live their best lives

Visualization is a very powerful tool. Steve Jobs used it. Have a clear vision of what a “healthy and uplifting” workplace looks like. See yourself clearly in your mind and visualize vividly how you will be in a “healthy and uplifting” workplace. If you are a small start-up, see each person with your mind’s eye and imagine how that person will perform in a “healthy and uplifting” workplace.

For my interview series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Tracy F. H. Chang who is an Associate Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Iowa and M.B.A. from New York University. She is also a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher trained at the Center for Mindfulness at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Chang teaches Organizational Behavior, Senior Seminar on Reinventing the Self and Work, and Social Entrepreneurship undergraduate…