Leadership speaker Kim Scott

Kim Scott

Bestselling Author, 'Radical Candor' & 'Radical Respect'; CEO Coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and More

Kim Scott, author of the bestseller Radical Candor, is a leadership and culture expert who co-founded Radical Candor®, LLC to help organizations foster collaboration over command and control. She has held leadership roles at Google and Apple, coached executives at top tech companies, and authored books like Just Work (soon to be re-released as Radical Respect), focusing on building inclusive and effective workplace cultures.

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    Kim Scott biography

    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.

    Kim Scott Speaking Videos

    Kim Scott - How to lead with radical candor
    Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss

    Kim Scott Keynote Topics

    - 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
    organization and a tangible takeaway from the memorable event with Kim.

    - 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

    - 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

    - 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

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