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.
Heather has spent 15+ years in People roles and is currently the Chief People Officer at Brex. Prior to Brex, she was CPO at Gem, where she led all things People and Talent and the CPO at Newfront, where she established and scaled people programs, ultimately leading them through a successful merger that took Newfront from 300 to 700 employees. Previous to her CPO roles, she led the HR Business Partner team at Dropbox and held roles in Recruiting, Compensation, and HR Business Partner at Microsoft. In addition to her day job, Heather holds a number of angel investments and advisory roles across early stage startups.
Karen is an organizational psychologist with expertise in leadership development, change management and executive coaching. She’s been privileged to work with executives and high-tech leaders to build and align high performance teams, scale organizations, and accelerate leaders’ growth to meet strategic challenges, For ten years, Karen served as Google’s vice president of People Development, heading up the company’s leadership development, L&D, talent management and career development teams across the globe. Prior to joining Google in 2010, Karen founded and led two organizational consulting firms, both with successful exits. Karen has a deep interest in mindfulness and meditation and is a frequent interviewer, contributor and advisor to Wisdom 2.0. She also serves as an advisor to Wisdom Ventures and their portfolio companies.
Karen earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology at U.C. Berkeley and received her B.A. in psychology from Mills College. Karen served on the Mills College Board of Trustees for 10 years leading up to the merger with Northeastern University and is a past president of the Mills College Alumnae Association.
Mark serves as Chief People Officer at Nativo, overseeing the company’s people strategy and operations and delivering forward-thinking people solutions. He is passionate about cultivating a purpose-led, values-driven, inclusive culture, balancing new technology with the human touch to create an inspiring people experience. Before joining Nativo, Mark served as Chief People Officer for Zovio (Nasdaq: ZVO), an educational technology company, leading a team responsible for redesigning all aspects of the company’s people and culture strategy and leading efforts to drive organizational transformation. Mark also has served in senior human resources roles at ResMed (NYSE: RMD) and commercial leadership roles at Metagenics, Shire Regenerative Medicine, and Bard Peripheral Vascular. Mark is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Maureen is the Chief People Officer at Saatva, the Smarter Luxury Sleep Company. Maureen is a certified HR practitioner and executive coach, with certifications from HRCI and Assenter Coaching. She holds a BA in Business Administration from Fordham University and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.
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.