Andrew Swinand’s Post

Andrew Swinand - I'm the "Kindness is Cool" honoree on May 6 by the Luisa Diaz Foundation https://luisadiazfoundation.org/ in New York City. I'd like to share more about the organization and honor. You should join as my guest at the gala. Jack

OMG. I founded SOCIALDEVIANT 13 years ago, with the goal of being the world's kindest company. Over the years, we refined and optimized the model and turned kindness into an operating system with measureable behaviors, outcomes and impact for each and every person. We are crushing it, with kindness as our 13 year day in and day out reason for being. Let's discuss if you want more details about what it really means and how to do it every single day!

Love Kindness and Kindness will Love you. Our greatest obstacle is zero-sum game thinking. Every aspect of our current existence seems to require a winner and a loser. It’s a false paradigm that almost every aspect of life on Earth ignores except mankind’s. Communication, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration are at the root of win-win scenarios all around us. Tolerance, Patience, Empathy, Compassion, radical Honesty, and Optimism are the inputs. Value and impact always emerge when people work together, respect AND actually harness their differences, and imagine together.

I agree! Kindness doesn’t equal soft language or platitudes; its context, clarity, feedback, support when things go right and wrong, genuinely caring about an individual’s development and success. It’s a leadership trait, that when exhibited and experienced, creates an endearing relationship that ppl want to follow. I’ve been lucky enough to have had a number of kind leaders in my court! Andrew Swinand; Nick Colucci; Renetta McCann; Marc L.; Rich Stoddart; Mark Tutssel to name a few.

Andrew, I agree, but I strongly believe we need to understand what people value, where there are commonalities, and build off those in leadership. I just heard David Allison speak last month and love what he is bringing to the table with the data and research his Valuegraphics has done into this area.

Couldn't agree more Andrew. We've created trundl, the walking app that helps individuals and companies turn walks into charity donations and track CO2 savings. It's heartening that there are people and companies out there who want to be part of a force for good, thank you for creating a conversation about it 💚

I’ve tried. I even felt i succeeded , but the “leaders” above screwed us in a very unking way. How do we create a culture of kindness that permeate the whole org? I always say corporates are made of humans 🥰

Love this and your post from HBR. Such an important distinction on being kind vs. being nice.

My mantra completely! As a creative and content ops leader, I strive to help teams feel valued, empowered and engaged. I truly believe we make it better together!

I’ve witnessed that you walk the walk on kindness as a leader. It’s a super power; and the right thing to do. Period.