Kim Scott

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  • NYT & WSJ Bestselling Author, 'Radical Candor' & 'Radical Respect'
  • CEO Coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and More
  • Co-Founder of Radical Candor®
  • Google and Apple Executive

Leadership & culture expert Kim Scott is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity, which launched a global management revolution. Kim is the co-Founder of Radical Candor®, LLC – a company dedicated to helping organizations and teams move from a culture of command and control to one of collaboration. Previously, Kim led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google, and then joined Apple to develop and teach a leadership seminar. She has been a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and several other tech companies.

Kim was the co-Founder & CEO of Juice Software – a collaboration startup, and led business development at Delta Three and Capital Thinking. Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was an analyst on the Soviet Companies Fund. Kim is the author of three novels, and her book Just Work: How To Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Create a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity (which is being re-released as Radical Respect in May 2024) is an essential guide leaders and their employees need to create more just workplaces and establish new norms of collaboration and respect.

 


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Past Hosts Include:
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  • Hubspot's INBOUND Conference
  • NuBank
  • Jobvite
  • Blinkist
  • SGC Horizon
Rave Reviews About Kim Scott
I cannot thank you enough for your fantastic presentation at our annual Women in Residential Construction conference... It was every bit as wonderful as I hoped it would be, and more. Giving and receiving feedback is such an important topic, especially for women, and you made your suggestions about it so relatable to our lives and work that we couldn't help but know how to get better at it in the future. We have already received incredible feedback on it from our attendees!

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Radical Candor: Build a Psychologically Safe Culture of Feedback.

In this hour-long keynote, KIM SCOTT will: Illuminate the Radical Candor framework with stories from her career Explain the Radical Candor “order of operations” so that you’ll come away with practical, tactical tips for putting the ideas into practice. Share some Radical Candor she got on Radical C ...

In this hour-long keynote, KIM SCOTT will:

  • Illuminate the Radical Candor framework with stories from her career
  • Explain the Radical Candor “order of operations” so that you’ll come away with practical, tactical tips for putting the ideas into practice.
  • Share some Radical Candor she got on Radical Candor, and why it helped her improve her work
  • Answer questions from participants

As an add-on for any of Kim's talks, HWA is happy to facilitate a bulk purchase of Kim's book Radical Candor for your organization. The gift of a book for your employees or guests serves as a tool for continued learning across your organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

Radical Candor: Build a Kickass Team.

In this hour-long keynote, KIM SCOTT will: Explain why it is important to understand when people are in RockStar mode, and when they are in SuperStar mode; Explain how to have Career Conversations so you know which of your employees is in which mode; Explain how to manage each of these different mo ...

In this hour-long keynote, KIM SCOTT will:

  • Explain why it is important to understand when people are in RockStar mode, and when they are in SuperStar mode;
  • Explain how to have Career Conversations so you know which of your employees is in which mode;
  • Explain how to manage each of these different modes differently;
  • Answer questions from participants

As an add-on for any of Kim's talks, HWA is happy to facilitate a bulk purchase of Kim's book Radical Candor for your organization. The gift of a book for your employees or guests serves as a tool for continued learning across your organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

Radical Candor: Get Sh*t Done

In this hour-long keynote, KIM SCOTT will: Explain the “get sh*t done” framework Describe how to have meetings that help people get sh*t done rather than just wasting time 1:1’s Staff Meetings Debate Meetings Decision Meetings Goal-Setting Answer questions from participants As an add-on for any ...

In this hour-long keynote, KIM SCOTT will:

  • Explain the “get sh*t done” framework
  • Describe how to have meetings that help people get sh*t done rather than just wasting time
    • 1:1’s
    • Staff Meetings
    • Debate Meetings
    • Decision Meetings
    • Goal-Setting
  • Answer questions from participants

As an add-on for any of Kim's talks, HWA is happy to facilitate a bulk purchase of Kim's book Radical Candor for your organization. The gift of a book for your employees or guests serves as a tool for continued learning across your organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

Radical Respect: Don’t let bias, prejudice, and bullying masquerade as feedback

In this 1-hour keynote, KIM SCOTT will: Illuminate the Radical Respect framework with stories from her career Offer some simple definitions of bias, prejudice and bullying and Suggest what to say when you don’t know what to say: practical, tactical suggestions for how to respond to bias, prejudice ...

In this 1-hour keynote, KIM SCOTT will:

  • Illuminate the Radical Respect framework with stories from her career
  • Offer some simple definitions of bias, prejudice and bullying and
  • Suggest what to say when you don’t know what to say: practical, tactical suggestions for how to respond to bias, prejudice and bullying
  • Explain five different ways to be an upstander, rather than a silent bystander
  • Recommend three things leaders can do to prevent bias, prejudice and bullying on their teams
  • Answer questions from participants

As an add-on for any of Kim's talks, HWA is happy to facilitate a bulk purchase of Kim's book Just Work (which is being re-released as Radical Respect in May 2024) for your organization. The gift of a book for your employees or guests serves as a tool for continued learning across your organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

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Kim Scott brought a mind-blowing mini-presentation to HWA’s team – we think your team needs to see this!

When KIM SCOTT visited the HWA team, she brought a bright and mind-blowing mini-presentation on Radical Candor®, treating us to just a taste of how impactful her full-length presentations and workshops are for teams of all kinds. In her business bestseller Radical Candor, Kim taps into the very real - and universal - anxiety we have about giving and receiving feedback, which holds us back from growing and individuals and building more honest, empathetic, and collaborative teams and workplaces. While communication and connection presents real challenges in work and in life, Kim's analysis is affirming and accessible.

No matter the question you bring to her framework, Kim offers actionable strategies in her memorable talks that draw on her business bestsellers. HWA has already purchased Kim's books for our team, and we're eager to see what Radical Candor® will bring to our workplace culture. If this sounds like a philosophy that would take work and workplace culture to the next level for your team, HWA would love to connect your group with Kim and her transformational message.

As an add-on for any of Kim's talks, HWA is happy to facilitate a bulk purchase of Kim's books Radical Candor or Just Work (which is being re-released as Radical Respect in May 2024) for your organization. The gift of a book for your employees or guests serves as a tool for continued learning across your organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

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KIM SCOTT, the bestselling author of ‘Just Work’ and ‘Radical Candor’, is transforming workplaces everywhere for the better

KIM SCOTT, a renowned author of the New York Times bestselling books Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity (which is being re-released as Radical Respect in May 2024) and Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, which has sold more than 1M copies, is spearheading a global movement towards positive change in workplaces. As the co-founder of Radical Candor, LLC, Kim strives to establish fair and compassionate work environments that encourage outstanding outcomes. Her principles are simple yet profound – foster respect, collaboration, and fairness within teams and eliminate toxic workplace behaviors. By embracing her insights, organizations everywhere have established effective communication channels and nurtured an inclusive culture. In this discussion on Radical Candor®, Kim Scott walks people through How To Give Candid Feedback – with the understanding that feedback in all forms, across all levels of a business, is critical to a team's success.

With a background coaching top chief executives at tech giants like the CEOs of DropboxQualtrics, and Twitter, Kim Scott's transformative impact is evident. Her experiences as an executive at Google and leading teams at AdSenseYouTube, and DoubleClick provide a unique perspective on organizational dynamics. As a faculty member at Apple University, created by Steve Jobs, she shared her wisdom to shape the leaders of tomorrow. Her passion for cultivating caring and candid relationships resonates deeply with audiences everywhere, empowering individuals and teams to thrive.

In today's workplace, being a good manager and boss is critical due to generational differences, remote versus in-office work dynamics, post-pandemic priorities, and economic uncertainty. Kim Scott's insights act as a guiding light in the journey towards just work. Heeding her call for change, challenging outdated norms, and building workplaces where everyone can flourish will help the business community realize Kim's vision of a more equitable, empathetic, and productive future together. Watch Kim Scott's talk, How To Be A Kick-Ass Boss, which everyone can use working with teams across generations, geography, and within work-from-home and in-person environments.

From Kim Scott – author of the revolutionary NYT & WSJ bestseller ‘Radical Candor’ – comes ‘Just Work’, the essential guide to building a kick-ass culture

From KIM SCOTT, author of the revolutionary New York Times bestseller Radical Candor, comes Just Work: How To Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Create a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity – an essential guide leaders and their employees need to create more just workplaces and establish new norms of collaboration and respect. A leadership and culture expert with experience at AdSense, YouTube, and Google, Kim breaks down how audiences can recognize, attack, and eliminate workplace injustice ― and transform our careers and organizations in the process. Just Work (which is being re-released as Radical Respect in May 2024) is a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively.

As an add-on for any of Kim's talks, HWA is happy to facilitate a bulk purchase of Kim's book Just Work (which is being re-released as Radical Respect in May 2024) for your organization. The gift of a book for your employees or guests serves as a tool for continued learning across your organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

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Kim Scott’s book ‘Radical Candor’ launched a global management revolution

Leadership & culture expert KIM SCOTT is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity, which launched a global management revolution. A bestseller multiple years running, Radical Candor has been translated into twenty languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide, and has been developed into a MasterClass. A highly successful leader at AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google, Kim is a sought-after CEO coach who co-founded her consultancy Radical Candor® to help people put the ideas & philosophy in her books into practice.

Radical Candor has become a cultural touchstone, embraced by leaders around the world at companies of all sizes. In her motivational keynote speeches and workshops, Kim guides her audience through the Radical Candor framework and philosophy, offering actionable strategies for giving and soliciting feedback, cultivating an inclusive culture, strengthening your skills as a leader, and empowering others with your honesty.

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Kim Scott is the author of Just Work and Radical Candor and co-founder of a company that helps leaders build a culture of feedback. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Earlier in her career she was an analyst at the Soviet Companies Fund, started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was director of operations of a pediatric clinic in Kosovo.