“Becoming a Kind Leader” with Karyn Ross | Ep. 197
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About this Episode:
In this episode of The Transformative Leader Podcast, I’m happy to bring you a conversation with Karyn Ross about the power of kindness and why being a kind leader is the only way to truly lead. In our conversation, Karyn dispels the myths about kindness being a sign of weakness and she gives us a glimpse of her fabulous new book, The Kind Leader. Karyn practices what she preaches and she has devoted a significant amount of time and resources toward the foundation she has started to make this world a kinder and better place. I am honored to call Karyn my friend and I was beyond excited when she asked me to contribute to her book. It was a treat for me to have this conversation and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on this subject
Karyn Ross is on a mission to “Activate People to Create a Kinder, Better World.” An artist, internationally acclaimed speaker, award-winning author, consultant, coach, and practitioner, Karyn is one of the Founding Mothers of Women in Lean – Our Table, a global group of almost nine-hundred women lean practitioners. Karyn is also Founder and President of the Love and Kindness Project Foundation, a registered public charity, and The New School for Kind Leaders. She has created both of these initiatives to help people around the world think, speak, act and lead more kindly.
Karyn is an internationally acclaimed consultant, coach and lean practitioner who has taught organizations of all sizes, in sectors as diverse as insurance, HR, transportation and retail how to use creativity combined with Toyota Way principles, practices and tools. This powerful combination enables organizations to create better, more effective and efficient ways to work and the peak services that each of their customers wants, now and for the future.
While many other Lean consultants focus on implementing tools, Karyn teaches teams how to use Practical Creativity™ to continuously strive towards service excellence. By developing each person’s capability through Coached Practice, she focuses on the means: the ‘how’, and not just the ‘ends’ or the results, because “how we get there is as important as where we are going”.
Karyn’s sixth book, The Kind Leader: A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear, Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness is now available. Karyn’s five other books are: How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence: A Lean Coaching Workbook, the Shingo-award winning The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations, I’ll Keep You Posted: 102 of My Reflections to Help You Start – and Deepen – Your Own Active Reflection Process, Think Kindly – Speak Kindly – Act Kindly: 366 Easy and Free Ideas You Can Use to Create a Kinder World…Starting Today, and Big Karma and Little Kosmo Help Each Other. Proceeds from books fund The Love and Kindness Project Foundation.
A practicing artist, with an MFA in Sculpture, Karyn specializes in developing your team’s creativity and divergent thinking skills so that your organization can flourish, thrive and grow and fulfill its purpose. When not traveling, Karyn spends time designing and sewing her own clothes! Follow Karyn on LinkedIn for a daily inspirational post about creativity, kindness and/or continuous improvement.
Guest Links:
Website: karynrossconsulting.com/, kindleadership.org/, loveandkindnessproject.org/
Book(s): The Kind Leader, Amazon author page
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/krclean4service
Twitter: twitter.com/KRCLean4Service
Facebook: facebook.com/karynrossconsulting/
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