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A Conversation
With Linda Cohen, The Kindness Catalyst
By The Montana Funeral Directors
Association, Director’s Digest
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Emotional Optimism
How do you create a culture of kindness in the workplace? In today’s episode, Linda Cohen talks about the power of doing intentional acts of kindness and the ripple effect that can transform your life and your business.
After her father died, Linda started a 1,000-Mitzvah (act of kindness) project in his memory. Five years later, she translated her project into how it affects businesses and organizations and how leaders can bring kindness in the workplace.
Becoming Preferred
Kindness is not always seen as a priority in the workplace, especially as it can contrast with the traditional image of a successful entrepreneur. Haven’t we been told that ‘nice people finish last?’ Office culture can be cutthroat and competitive, leading to hurtful criticism, lack of collaboration, and miscommunication. However, now we are increasingly talking about wellbeing in the workplace. To help us understand the ROI of kindness, is author, speaker, and trainer, Linda Cohen.
Leveraging Thought Leadership
Is kindness a mindset, culture, or capability? What is the cost of empowering your employees to be kind to their co-workers, customers, and themselves? We start our conversation by discussing how Linda started her kindness movement by writing her first book, 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your Life, as a project to honor her father. Linda discusses the concept of an “economy of kindness,” and how kindness is a soft skill that businesses rarely emphasize. Yet, the ROI of kindness in your business is undeniable.
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Need a Well-Rounded Speaker?
Invite The Kindness Catalyst, Linda Cohen to speak to your team or organization. From healthcare and community credit unions, to private businesses and government associations, kindness is a message proven to help motivate and support your teams.
The size of the kindness action doesn’t matter. Kindness has a ripple effect that spreads out to the world and has a positive effect on your bottom line.
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A Conversation With Linda Cohen, The Kindness Catalyst
This story appears in the Montana Funeral Directors Association, Directors Digest Pub 1 Issue 4, 2022
Kindness is important everywhere. Why did you choose to focus on kindness in the workplace?
I could see that there were real challenges in the country and the world. Rhetoric was more challenging, and conversations were becoming more divided. Since people spend so much of their day in the workforce, I started looking for good business cultures and organizations that focus on kindness because I wanted to see their results. Also, I started working to bring kindness to the workplace. My first paid opportunities were with local government, health care and long-term health care, and then credit unions. I have continued working with many of these industries.
Why does kindness improve the bottom line?
My three Rs are reputation, recruitment and retention. When an organization gets a reputation for being unkind, its customers and staff often leave. In contrast, organizations with good reputations have an easier time recruiting talent. The third R is retention. If you tell people that your culture is one way, you hire them, and they discover it’s not true, they will usually leave.
What is the easiest way to help business cultures turn toward kindness?
Funeral Service Insider
What is your definition of kindness? Why does kindness in the workplace matter? In this interview with Patti Martin Barsche, Linda Cohen discusses the importance of kindness in the workplace and the impact the pandemic has had on its presence.
Age Gracefully America
Our words can change a life. Our actions can do the same. Every day we have the ability to choose to act in a positive or negative way.
Speaker Magazine
National Speakers Association’s (NSA) monthly publication featuring insight into the art and business of speaking. Linda Cohen was featured in the “Speaking from the Heart” edition of 2016.
Jewish Women's Archive
When my father died in 2006, I spent six months in a place that felt unbalanced, out of sync, and unsettled. I needed to sit with the feelings I was having and be present with the opportunity that grief had offered me.
KATU News TV Interview
On KATU2 AM NorthWest, Linda is interviewed about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the climate of kindness, and how individuals can help to ‘Spread Kindness in a Time of Crisis.’
THE KINDNESS CATALYST
Linda Cohen Keynote Highlights
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More Podcast Appearances
Transform Your Workplace
A hard-hitting pandemic spurred an initial, unexpected rise in kindness. But before long, we settled back into our old ways. Could your business use a lesson in ramping up kindness? In this episode, Linda Cohen brings kindness back to the forefront of the workplace conversation. Listen in as Cohen drives home the idea that kindness affects everyone and everything it touches, even a business’s bottom line.
Flip the Beauty Script
Discover how boundless authentic beauty really is with host Stephanie Snow, media producer, storyteller, mind-body eating coach, and founder of Beauty Revolution. This podcast is taking society’s narrow definition of beauty and redefining it entirely. With energetic, entertaining, and enlightening conversations that will open your eyes to your own beauty and help you reclaim time, energy, and confidence for things that really matter. The Kindness Catalyst, Linda Cohen, joins this episode to share the power of kindness and how you can beautify your life with a dose each day.
The Kindness Podcast
Hear Linda Cohen, who has been a “kindness catalyst” for over a decade, on Nicole Phillip’s The Kindness Podcast. A nationally recognized kindness expert and professional speaker, Linda works with a wide variety of businesses and associations on the ROI of Kindness. Cohen offers insight into why kindness matters so much in the workplace now more than ever. It’s imperative to your bottom line.
Aging Today Podcast
This is a show that creates a great place for professionals to connect and discover resources, strategies, and hot topics in the aging space. Aging can be proactive and centered around choice, but it all starts with the right leadership. Listen to this episode, How Kindness Transforms Your Bottom Line, featuring Linda Cohen.
Remembering a Life
When her father passed away in 2006, Linda Cohen’s busy life as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur came to a screeching halt. She took a spiritual sabbatical to work through her grief, and she came out of it resolved to embark upon a project: perform one thousand acts of kindness “mitzvahs” to honor her father’s memory. In this episode, Linda shares the transformational power of kindness, and a call to arms for those who would like to follow in her footsteps with their own mitzvahs—no matter how large or how small.
Business Bookshelf
The KORE Women Podcast
Linda Cohen joins this week’s episode of The KORE Women podcast, with Dr. Summer Watson. Linda, also known as ‘The Kindness Catalyst,’ has been a professional speaker and a consultant for more than a decade and is a member of the national speaker’s association.
Small Changes Big Shifts
In this episode with Linda Cohen, also known as the Kindness Catalyst, you’ll learn how to create a culture of kindness in your organization and methods to give and receive kindness in your own life. Right in the middle of Small Changes Big Shift’s own kindness campaign, tune in with Linda and Dr. Robin for an inspiring, usable discussion.
Rooted in Revenue Podcast
Kindness decreases stress, reduces employee burnout, and builds increasing levels of happiness and satisfaction in the workplace. Susan is joined by author, speaker, “The Kindness Catalyst”, Linda Cohen. They visit about transforming your business to incorporate kindness as a method of recruitment, retention, and reputation without exhausting your budgets.
Listen, Learn, Explore
From the Pioneer Network
Bring in the New Year with an episode that is sure to inspire you. Join Linda Cohen, known as the “Kindness Catalyst”, and author of The Economy of Kindness: How Kindness Transforms Your Bottom Line, as she joins Penny Cook in a conversation about the benefits of kindness, the importance of it in the workplace, and how we can all be catalysts of kindness, not only for the good of others but also for ourselves.
Media from the Blog
World Kindness Day 2022
World Kindness Day 2022 is on November 13th. Kindness + Curiosity = Human Connections. How we react is always our choice. Hate is never the answer.
Kindness is Teachable
Kindness is teachable, clearly so is hate. Last weekend, I listened to Rabbi and a Preacher giving sermons about love, inclusion, and humankind. The Rabbi told us, the Jewish answer to the question, "Am I my brother’s keeper and my sister’s...
Curiosity Creates Better Leadership
Curiosity creates better leadership because curious leaders fulfill their employees’ need to be acknowledged. In our personal and professional lives, recognition is always important. It is a very basic human need to feel heard, seen, and noticed.