Dr. Jacqueline Ann Acho

Dr. Jacqueline Acho earned a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from MIT, and worked in strategy, leadership, and cultural transformation for more than twenty-five years as a partner of McKinsey & Company and as an entrepreneur. She wrote, consulted, and spoke about the power of empathy and her first book, Currency of Empathy: The Secret to Thriving in Business & Life, paints a vision of a better way to live and work. Upon her diagnosis with ovarian cancer in February 2020, she wrote about her experience with extraordinary insight, grace, and beauty. Cancer Culture: Fixing the Landscape by Infusing Empathy is the result of those writings. Jackie passed away at home in hospice care on December 22, 2022.