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From Stay-at-Home Mom to Keynote Speaker:
Linda Cohen Shares How Kindness
Fueled HerPersonal and
Professional Transformation.
By Bold Journey
Kindness on the Streets of Downtown Portland
I’d decided to celebrate my birthday on the streets of downtown Portland. I wanted to talk to people about “Everyday Kindness.” What were they feeling in their day-to-day lives? Are they experiencing kindness from friends, family, and co-workers?
We heard some amazing things from complete strangers, and these conversations were a wonderful reminder that kindness is out there.
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Connecting the Dots: Senior Living Success with Matt Reiners
What does a culture of kindness really look like in senior living?
I had the joy of exploring that question on the Connecting the Dots podcast hosted by Matt Reiners in an episode called “The ROI of Kindness: How Compassion Transforms Company Culture.”
Leveraging Thought Leadership: The ROI of Kindness
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.
Becoming Preferred: Discover the Return on Investment of Kindness (ROI)
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.
Transform Your Workplace: The Power of Kindness in the Workplace: Lessons from Linda Cohen
Linda Cohen, known as the kindness catalyst, discusses the importance of kindness in the workplace and how it can transform organizational culture.
Additionally, she emphasizes the impact of small acts of kindness, the need for recognition and communication, and the benefits of creating a culture where kindness is a core value.
V2 Virtual Venues Podcast: Kindness and the Bottom Line
In this episode of the Thought Leader Conversations podcast presented by V2 Virtual Venues, guest Linda Cohen joins host Roger Courville, CSP to discuss the relationship between kindness and the bottom line.
Along the way, Roger and Linda chat about questions such as: What’s the big deal about company culture? How do people get “feedback” wrong? How do you define “kindness values?” What is the evidence that kindness positively impacts the bottom line? And more!
Want Linda to be a guest on your podcast? Start a conversation today!
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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Bold Journey - Meet Linda Cohen
In this insightful conversation, Linda Cohen shares her inspiring journey of personal growth and professional transformation.
A stay-at-home mom turned keynote speaker and author, Linda discusses how she developed her self-confidence and self-esteem through small acts of kindness. Her personal mission, sparked by the loss of her father, led to the creation of the 1000 Mitzvahs project and ultimately her books 1,000 Mitzvahs and The Economy of Kindness.
Linda emphasizes how kindness can be a powerful leadership tool, improving workplace culture and combating burnout. She also offers practical advice for building confidence, including joining Toastmasters and finding ways to incorporate kindness into daily life.
Today, Linda continues to inspire audiences with her message that kindness is not just a “nice to have,” but an essential leadership skill.
Is Curiosity the Secret to a Kinder 2025? - New Day NW
Author and Kindness Catalyst Linda Cohen says paying better attention leads to stronger relationships. #newdaynw
Cultivate Kindness in 2025 - KATU 2 ABC News
Build connections by cultivating kindness. Linda Cohen, author of “The Economy of Kindness”, joined us to share how embracing curiosity can more create empathy and understanding.
ABC 10 - Why Curiosity Is the Key to a Kinder Workplace
Discover how curiosity fosters kindness and strengthens connections in work and life
Cost Management - The ROI of Kindness
Automation has long been argued as one of the best things to ever happen to the world of financial management. Between streamlining
processes, standardizing inputs, saving time, and improving the accuracy of results, it is easily understood why the concept has been applied in the accounting context.
Jewish Women's Archive - Linda Cohen & Her Book, 1,000 Mitzvahs
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.
Directors Digest - 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 - Kindness Pays Big Benefits in Workplace
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.
KATU News TV Interview - Spreading Kindness During Times of Crisis
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.’
KATU News - Cultivating Kindness
On KATU2 ABC, Linda shares tips on how to cultivate kindness in your home and workplace this holiday season.
Speaker Magazine - Kindness: A Catalyst that Connects
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.
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Linda Cohen Keynote Highlights
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More Podcast Appearances
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.
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? Listen in as Cohen drives home the idea that kindness affects everyone and everything it touches, even a business’s bottom line.
Dancing in the Discomfort Zone
In this episode of the Dancing in the Discomfort Zone podcast, guest Linda Cohen joins host Anne Bonney, CSP to discuss kindness in everyday actions. Kindness is something we all enjoy and value from the people around us, and something some people may think is missing too often in human interactions.
Flip the Beauty Script
Discover how boundless authentic beauty really is with host Stephanie Snow. This podcast is taking society’s narrow definition of beauty and redefining it entirely. 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. 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.
Gigi Rosenberg Podcast
Join Gigi as she interviews Linda Cohen about how she mustered the nerve to show up in downtown Portland, Oregon to interview strangers on everyday kindness, her best advice on launching a speaking career and how to engage your audience with authenticity…
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.
Your Marketing Moment
Linda Cohen is an international keynote speaker, consultant, and author of several books on how kindness transforms companies’ bottom line. In this episode, Linda shares how her marketing moment was years in the making. Then suddenly, everything changed.
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 Business Bookshelf podcast interviews best selling authors about their newly released books. Host Lance Peppler interviews Linda about “The Economy of Kindness: How Kindness Transforms Your Bottom Line,” where she goes on to explain how companies have employed kindness to maintain their organizations.
Play Your Position Podcast
Linda Cohen is an international keynote speaker, consultant, author, and trainer who considers herself a kindness catalyst. She shares the ROI of kindness with businesses and associations around the world through customized interactive programs for team meetings and conference keynotes with enthusiasm and expertise.
A Year of Joy
In this episode of the Year of Joy podcast, we delve into how to make a positive impact on people through kindness. Drawing from Linda’s extensive expertise and her unique perspective, we explore how small acts of kindness can not only change individual lives but also reshape organizational cultures and drive substantial outcomes.
Listen, Learn, Explore
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.
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.
Rooted in Revenue Podcast
Kindness decreases stress, reduces employee burnout, and builds increasing levels of happiness and satisfaction in the workplace. Linda discusses transforming your business to incorporate kindness as a method of recruitment, retention, and reputation without exhausting your budgets.
Media from the Blog
Building a Speaking Career That Lasts: It All Started with Kindness
Kindness isn’t just healing. It’s powerful. It’s practical. It’s sustaining. And it belongs in our workplaces.
The ROI of Kindness: How Compassion Transforms Company Culture
One thing I’ve learned? If you’re looking at your culture of kindness, it starts with leadership, but don’t let titles be the only thing that defines who can lead the way. Sometimes your best kindness catalyst is a CNA, a nurse, or the server who remembers every resident’s birthday and favorite dessert.
Sweet Visits, Shared Stories, and the Power of Kindness
Some weeks, like the one I recently spent in Vermont and Pennsylvania, leave you full in the best possible way.