Linda Cohen, MA
Kindness Catalyst
Linda Cohen, the Kindness Catalyst, is a nationally recognized expert and professional speaker and consultant on Cultivating Kindness. Her first book, 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire and Change Your Life, is an inspirational guide to a life of gratitude. Cohen teaches franchise systems the ROI of kindness. She inspires and deftly elicits stories from others, captivating the audience through her interactive and engaging keynotes and workshops.
Linda Cohen, The Kindness Catalyst
Linda Cohen has been a “Kindness Catalyst” for over 10 years. She is a sought-after consultant on the ROI of Kindness and professional speaker. Her goal is simple: to help franchisors improve communication, boost teamwork and improve the employee engagement by focusing on a strong culture of kindness. Her first book, 1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire and Change Your Life was published by Seal Press.
Cohen received her BA from Lee College and an MA from Brandeis University. Cohen is the immediate past president of the Oregon chapter of the National Speakers Association. She lives in Oregon with her husband of 27 years. They have two spirited young adult children and two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. When Cohen isn’t working you might find her practicing yoga or enjoying a perfectly brewed cup of Earl Grey Tea!


Partial Client List:
- Aging Life Care Association
- Best Life Brands
- California Funeral Directors Association
- ComForCare
- Idaho Hospital Association
- Kroger/Fred Meyer
- New Mexico Nurse Practitioners Council
- Oregon Healthcare Association
- Oregon Hospice & Palliative Care Association
- Portland Adventist Health
- Society of Certified Senior Advisors
Format: 30-90 Minute Keynote
Keynote Description:
In this interactive keynote, Cohen helps employees and leaders at all levels understand that elevating your culture of kindness improves communication, boosts teamwork, promotes interpersonal interaction and customer service. Kindness in the workplace enhances employee morale, increases retention and creates loyalty from customers and clients.
Cohen will illustrate how kindness in action makes a difference using examples of how kindness can impact individuals, communities and businesses. She will share her three greatest lessons from her own personal story and how she became a “kindness catalyst”: the size of the action doesn’t matter, there is often an unexpected ripple effect, and giving and receiving are often experienced differently. Cohen will enlist the audience to expand the conversation around why kindness can be so crucial in a business setting and what value our individual actions can have on the bottom line of our organizations.
Hire Cohen to empower your employees through the ROI of kindness!
Format: 45-60 Minute Keynote
As the kindness catalyst for more than a decade, Cohen has offered this program to a wide variety of organizations and it always gets to the heart of what’s important to human beings. Belonging, connection and authenticity. If you are looking for an inspirational speaker to connect with people at a deep level this is the program to choose.
The audience will:
- Laugh and cry
- Identify specific ways to elevate kindness through intentional engagement in acts of kindness.
- Formulate ideas for their own actions to implement immediately.
Format: 90-180 Minute Workshop
Workshop Description:
- This is a deep dive interactive workshop where we’ll discuss why cultivating a culture of kindness in the workplace is imperative: Reputation, Retention and Recruitment.
- Your franchise system will learn to formulate ways to improve relationships with fellow employees and clients through intentional engagement in acts of kindness. Giving them the tools to address differences and challenges of work style preferences.
- Discuss and explore kindness practices that would help build stronger strategic alliances.
Takeaways:
- Attendees will leave with kindness ideas to implement in the workplace immediately.
- Determine that additional “kindness” policies might not cost you any money, but could be crucial for your bottom line.
- Justify that by focusing on your company culture you will have more loyal and happier employees and clients.
- Develop a renewed sense of possibilities for ways to cultivate a stronger culture of kindness.
How do we navigate a completely unknown territory?
We’ve been thrown into a virtual reality that has us struggling to see through the discomfort into what’s coming next. With the continued stress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic as well as a divisive public discourse on many sensitive issues, including a hotly debated election people are struggling with a sense of overwhelm.
How are you going to help your employees feel engaged, empowered, even motivated while we move through these next several months of uncertainty?
During this virtual webinar we’ll discuss Adaptability, Communication, Recognition and Radical Self Care as key kindness strategies. We’ll focus not on what we CAN’T do right now but what we CAN still DO.
Part Inspiration. Part Motivation. You’ll walk away with new ideas to step up and take action and thrive through these unusual times!
Takeaways:
- Recognize why cultivating a culture of kindness in a workplace is imperative: Reputation, Recruitment, Retention.
- Evaluate how your organization is currently doing with your own kindness strategies.
- Identify several kindness ideas to implement in the workplace.
Linda Cohen – Virtual Demo Reel
Linda Cohen – Why does kindness in the workplace matter?
Linda Cohen – How did you become the Kindness Catalyst?
