Karyn Ross is on a mission to Help People Create a Better, Kinder World. An artist, internationally acclaimed speaker, award-winning author, consultant, coach and practitioner, Karyn travels the globe teaching people her unique system of combining creativity, continuous improvement and kindness to make a better world. As well as being the owner of KRC (Karyn Ross Consulting) Karyn is one of the Founding Mothers of Women in Lean - Our Table, a global group of more than seven hundred and fifty 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's sixth book, The Kind Leader: A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear, Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness will be available late spring 2021. 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.

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.

1 Isn't Kindness a Sign of Weakness? 2 The Five Key Characteristics of a Kind Leader 3 Why How We Get There Is as Important as Where We Are Going 4 Think Kindly: Kind Leaders Assume Positive Intent 5 Speak Kindly: Use Words of Encouragement and Growth 6 Act Kindly: Kind Leaders Put Humanity First 7 Collaboration, Cooperation and Kindness, Not Competition 8 When Things Don't Go Kindly