AI leadership coaching.
For every manager.
Kindred is a Slack-based AI coach that provides personalized leadership coaching for every manager.
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Supporting managers is one of our top priorities yet the existing solutions yield low ROI. Kindred has been a game changer for our leaders, highlighting clear ROI within a matter of weeks.
Manager effectiveness is one of the most critical factors to a company's success. Many companies have tried to figure out enablement -- through training, coaching, community, and more -- but the one gap we've always seen: real time learning. I'm excited for what Kindred Minds can bring to move the needle forward.
Improving manager effectiveness has been a perennial problem at every organization that I have worked at. With their focus on efficiency, personalization, and scaleability, Kindred Minds has built a solution to finally solve it.
An AI coach built into the tools you already use.
Empower every manager with 24/7 personalized coaching
Kindred personalizes its recommendations for every manager based on several data sources, including previous meetings, personal leadership goals, and preferred coaching styles.
“Increasingly, employees want hyper-personalization of experience at work. Professional development that targets the specific needs of each learner will unlock greater potential than what is currently available. Kindred Minds promises to hold that key."
Integrated into the flow of work
Before 1:1s, Kindred sends intelligent reminders via Slack personalized to the manager and direct report’s developmental goals. Kindred then attends the 1:1 and provides real-time feedback and leadership suggestions for the next time.
"Kindred's personalized coaching has given me the ability to learn how to check in on my rep's motivation levels before and after our 1:1s. It has given me the ability to grow as a manager in a way I never thought possible."
Trained on your company data
Kindred works in conjunction with existing company trainings, toolkits, and materials, ensuring consistent coaching for all leaders.
Kindred feels like it’s part of our team. It’s aligned with our internal language, leadership frameworks and philosophies, making sure every manager is on the same page, no matter where they are in their journey.
Performance reviews simplified
Kindred automatically summarizes and documents any feedback that a manager shares with their direct report during a 1:1. Kindred can then summarize all documented feedback to generate high-quality drafts for performance reviews.
"Kindred's personalized coaching has given me the ability to learn how to check in on my rep's motivation levels before and after our 1:1s. It has given me the ability to grow as a manager in a way I never thought possible."
of managers used and engaged with Kindred's nudges frequently.
of managers report that Kindred made them better managers within 6 weeks.
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Our Advisory Board
We work closely with some of the best practitioners to design and build the most effective learning experience. The Advisory Board is currently invite-only. If you are a HR leader or if you would like to nominate another HR leader for our Advisory Board, please complete the nomination form here.
Balbina Knight currently leads at the VP of People & Culture at Thrive Digital, where she serves as a people experience architect and activist, dedicated to building a better world of work. With over 13 years of experience in technology, Balbina has worked with various marketing agencies, managing growth marketing campaigns for some of the world's most exciting brands and leading top marketing teams in North America to shifting her focus to fuse together business strategy with people strategy to promote organizational growth and resilience. Through her innovative, compassionate, and human-centered approach, Balbina helps workplaces adapt to the ever-changing world by prioritizing the needs of their people.
Carolyn Frey is the Chief People Officer at Hungryroot. Prior to Hungryroot, she was the CPO & Head of Legal at Curology, a leading prescription skincare company. She led them through a fundamental restructure of their operations, and a CEO transition. Previously, she was at Philz Coffee for 6 years as their first ever CPO. Across her tenure, on top of people, she led retail operations & stores, the digital team, marketing and new business development. She started her career at Gartner (fka CEB) where she spent 15 years ($100M-$1B+) in various senior roles, leading sales, account management & product teams. She was well known in the firm for her ability to achieve YOY revenue growth, and develop/retain exceptional talent. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and lives in Santa Barbara with her husband and two kids.
Dom Merritt is an HR-preneurial, enthusiastic, collaborative, and culture-focused People/ HR leader with over 15 years of experience to shape high-performing cultures in fast-growing venture and PE-backed start-ups (Series A-D) as well as established mid-market organizations. Using a People First approach, he helps companies translate business vision into innovative HR initiatives that improve performance, profitability, growth, and employee engagement while developing executable strategies to attract, retain, and develop high-performing talent. His broad areas of expertise include talent management, organizational development, HR management, change management, and communication.
Dom is currently the Chief People Officer for dscout, a SaaS video research platform that helps major brands gather, manage, share, and analyze millions of in-context moments submitted by people around the world. He has also held senior leadership roles at several high-growth SaaS companies such as Uptake, Sprout Social, and several others.
In addition to his HR work, he is also a Senior Lecturer for Loyola University Chicago where he teaches management and communication courses and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board.
Dom obtained his Master of Science Degree in Organizational Communication Studies from Northwestern University as well as a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Management and Organizational Psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
Evan Wittenberg is the Chief People Officer at Vumedi, the largest platform for clinician education. With a deep passion for cultivating talent, he ensures that Vumedi attracts, develops, and retains top performers while preserving its high-performing culture through rapid growth. Previously, Evan was EVP and Chief People Officer at Pivot Bio, a biotech company tackling climate change in agriculture, where he led a 20-person People team through a period of hypergrowth. Prior to that, he spent four years as Chief People Officer at Ancestry, helping guide the $1B+ company through significant expansion and change.
Evan’s experience spans leading people functions at major companies, including Box, where he scaled the company from $50M to $500M in revenue and helped take it public in 2015. He also served as Chief Talent Officer at Hewlett-Packard and created and led global leadership development at Google. Earlier in his career, he directed the Graduate Leadership Program at the Wharton School. Evan holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MBA from Wharton. An avid traveler and athlete, he has visited all seven continents, climbed several high-altitude peaks, and holds a black belt in full-contact Japanese karate. His current adventure is fatherhood—he and his wife have a daughter and two sons.
We are committed to protecting your data.
We follow the best practices when it comes to managing and securing any stored data. Kindred is SOC2 Type 2 Certified.
All conversations between Kindred and a manager are confidential. These conversations are not shared with any external stakeholders unless a manager chooses to do so.
Managers and direct reports have control over what is recorded or not. Team members can remove Kindred and delete any stored meeting data anytime by typing a trigger phase in the meeting chat.
Every time Kindred joins a meeting, it shares a message with each participant to communicate its presence. During onboarding, Kindred shares the data that it collects with each manager and direct report.