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Kim Scott    

CEO Coach & Author of "Radical Candor"

Kim Scott is the author of "Just Work" and "Radical Candor." Scott 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 managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond cutting factory in Russia. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.

Speech Topics


Radical Candor: Build a Psychologically Safe Culture of Feedback

In this hour-long keynote, Kim 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

Radical Candor: Build a Kickass Team

In this hour-long keynote, Kim 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;

Radical Candor: Get Sh*t Done

In this hour-long keynote, Kim 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

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

In this hour-long keynote, Kim 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

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