1161: How to Build Stronger Relationships through Emotional Attunement with Nidhi Tewari, LCSW

I think every opportunity is a choice. You can choose to build trust or diminish it. You can choose to be connected or be disconnected. You can choose to attune or misattune. And the choice that you make in that moment is going to determine whether you're working well.

That's Nidhi Tuari. She's a 2026 Thinkers 50 Radar Award recipient and keynote speaker on work culture and well-being, drawing on 13 years of clinical expertise with high-performing leaders. Her new book, Working Well, How to build a happier, healthier workplace, the science of attunement shares how attunement can help deepen connections both at work and at home. So you'll learn one, the next evolution of emotional intelligence, two, how to improve collaboration and performance with the check-in framework, and three, how sharing your own experiences can unintentionally shut others down.

And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actional wisdom that Nithy shares, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find at awesometyourjob.com. I'm Pete Bakitus. This is how to be awesome at your job. And now, here's Nithy. Nidhi, welcome.

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