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Designed to be Kind has kindness baked into their business.

I applied to be on the Designed to Be Kind rota and their holding response came with a lovely video of their Founder thanking everyone for their passion and vulnerability, and explaining the next steps in their process. The video also had captions to make it accessible. It was such a great demonstration of how […]

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Akoni Tech Talks podcast.

How often do you notice kindness? And could simply recognising it be a catalyst for change — online and offline? Sarah is on the latest episode of Akoni Tech Talks discussing: Search Akoni Tech Talks on your favourite podcast app or YouTube to hear the whole episode.

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Kindness is key in HR.

We couldn’t agree more with Sara Yahia on how key kindness is in HR, and business at large. How have you seen kindness benefit people in business? “Kindness is a guiding principle in my life. As an HR leader, I make it a point to stay grounded in humanity while also achieving company goals. I

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Time for Kindness at the Speaker’s Collective.

I’m pleased to announce that I have recently become a member of the Speakers Collective, a community of speakers established to challenge stigma, facilitate important conversations and promote learning on a variety of social issues. It’s good to be able to spread the word about this useful resource and show that I’m part of it.

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Comms professionals on LinkedIn are full of kindness

“The headlines are heavy and the job market feels relentlessly tough, but kindness is louder than you think. I posted a call-out, asking for guest speakers to support my coaching group of job seekers in communications. I honestly expected tumbleweed. Not because I don’t believe in good people, but because LinkedIn has a habit of

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Time for Kindness speaking events in June.

Our head kindness cheerleader is talking at loads of events in June, so there are lots of opportunities to hear her speak about the power of kindness and communication: North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) conference.Institute of Internal Communication conference.a Connect Reading Learnalot session.a conversation with Louise Winters – the Sparkle coach ✨ in one

Sarah Browning at the NEUPC Conference

Kindness keynote at conferences.

Kindness makes a great keynote speech for any conference, here’s why: I’m giving the keynote at the NWUPC annual conference for procurement professionals this year. If you’d like me to kick off your con with kindness, get in touch with me here.

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Kind leadership in action at Greggs.

“When I popped into Greggs the other day I heard one of the staff there saying to the others, ‘You’re legends. It’s been a day, you’re all amazing.’ I thought it was so lovely of her to be cheering on her team like that during a stressful day.” What a great example of kind leadership

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Be a Kind Loook kindness agent.

The wonderful team at Kind Loook are offering you the opportunity to be a kindness agent from 15th May! From their website: “Our next 30 Days of Kindness experience starts 15th May 2025. If you think this is you, it is! Please feel free to share this, join us, bring a friend.” You can sign

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What if… we use personality profiles to be kind to each other

At Time for Kindness we believe that kindness is powerful because it connects us as humans. Our guest last month wrote about using understanding of different cultures to spot kindness. This month Nina Lenton, coach and creative thinking partner, continues the theme of communicating across difference, this time in relation to different personality traits. Most