Kim Scott

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better, and the co-founder of Radical Candor, a company that helps people apply her management and workplace culture frameworks. She has also written Just Work: How to Confront Bias, Prejudice and Bullying to Build a Culture of Inclusivity. Scott previously served as a CEO coach for companies including Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter, taught at Apple University, and led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Earlier in her career, she managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow, and co-founded the software startup Juice Software.

Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Slavic literature from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She co-hosts the Radical Candor and Radical Respect podcasts, extending her work on feedback, leadership, and workplace respect to a broader audience, and lives with her family in Silicon Valley.