blog posts Listening as a Leader Feb 12, 2025 1:15 pm47 views In this blog post, Emily Chang, a Graf Intern at the Illinois Leadership Center, discusses how listening is an often-overlooked leadership quality and how it can be beneficial in making others feel more comfortable participating. Empathy Apr 6, 2021 1:30 pm1023 views This post starts by comparing empathy to shoes, displaying a metaphor for being the listener for someone's story. This post also shares a comparison and a way to think of empathy in a different way.