Meet The Radical Candor Team
Our dedicated Radical Candor team, led by Kim Scott & Jason Rosoff,
provides proven management and feedback training.
Leslee Echivarre
Social Media Marketing Specialist
Leslee Echivarre is the Social Media Marketing Specialist at Radical Candor. Her initiatives aim to expand brand awareness and engagement across all social channels. With nearly three years of experience in social media management, Leslee is adept at crafting compelling content and executing strategies to foster meaningful connections with audiences.
Driven by her desire to make a difference, Leslee is drawn to companies that share her commitment to positive impact. Radical Candor’s mission of bringing humanity back to the workplace resonates deeply with her, as the team strives to excel professionally and foster personal growth and empathy in every aspect of life. Leslee feels privileged to be part of such an inspiring company and team.
Before joining Radical Candor, Leslee held pivotal roles managing social media for various organizations. From overseeing content creation to optimizing audience engagement, she demonstrated her ability to deliver tangible results, evident in the significant growth of clients’ social media presence.
Outside of work, Leslee is a passionate advocate for music at the National Music Council, actively promoting awareness of crucial music-related issues and championing music education for all. In her spare time, she enjoys indulging in hobbies such as drawing, video gaming, attending concerts, and baking, while also co-parenting two beloved cats, Good and Corky, with her boyfriend.
Dan Greene
Chief Revenue Officer
Dan Greene is an accomplished and highly successful leader with a talent for growing and scaling organizations and inspiring his teams to achieve exceptional results. He started his career in the Navy, serving as a carrier-based fighter pilot and team leader. After leaving active duty, Dan attended business school at UCLA and helped start an aviation company called Tactical Air Support, Inc.
From there, Dan moved on to leading and scaling sales organizations at Google, Twitter, Impossible Foods, and several growth-stage tech startups. Before joining Radical Candor as Chief Revenue Officer, Dan founded Lucid Advisors, LLC — a company focused on helping to create the next generation of great leaders and managers.
As CRO, Dan leads our Go-To-Market teams in growing Radical Candor’s global business. Dan also works closely with our customers doing workshops, speaking engagements, and 1:1 coaching regularly.
Dan lives in Willow Glen, California, with his wife, Karen, their three kids, and his (sometimes loyal) yellow lab Scout.
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Drew Muir
Director of Client Partnerships
Drew Muir is Radical Candor’s Director of Client Partnerships and brings 15+ years of experience working with companies large and small to improve individual and organizational performance.
Prior to joining Radical Candor, Drew designed and deployed go-to-market strategies for F500 companies as part of CEB, and led commercial efforts for the business arm of The Second City on the West Coast.
In these roles and with Radical Candor, Drew is passionate about helping people actually listen to one another and enjoy working together.
Drew currently lives on California’s Central Coast with his wife and their Golden Retriever, Gerry. When he’s not working or walking/playing with/paying way too much attention to Gerry, Drew is likely catching up on soccer highlights, reading, or finding a reason to be outside.
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Brandi Neal
Director of Content Creation & Marketing
A professional writer, editor, storyteller and content strategist with 20 years of experience, Brandi Neal is the director of content creation and marketing and the podcast producer for Radical Candor. In one of her previous jobs, she worked as a web development copywriter and a scriptwriter at L.L.Bean where she wrote and starred in product videos, including an instructional skiing video even though she does not know how to ski.
A former daily newspaper reporter and editor, magazine writer, travel writer and digital journalist, she is also the editor of two literary anthologies and co-founder of the narrative magazine The Blue Room. In addition, she was a 2016 recipient of an Idyllwild Arts fellowship for nonfiction and has given readings of her work around the world. Brandi has a BA in journalism from the University of Toledo and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Creative Writing program.
Some of the stranger things she has done include walking on fire (three times), hiking to the top of an active volcano in the middle of the night, hanging from the wing of an airplane (and letting go) and participating in an impala dung-spitting contest, which is just as gross as it sounds.
Brandi lives in Southern California with the world’s most handsome dog, Bodhi, and her senior cat, Ted. In a movie of her life, she wants to be played by Stana Katic.
Erin Read
Operations Manager
A southern transplant now firmly rooted in the northeast, Erin Read is a project manager and performer with 16 years of experience supporting and encouraging creative thinkers. Much of her career has been spent in the nonprofit arts, working with theater companies and philanthropic foundations to enrich the greater Philadelphia cultural community.
Prior to joining Radical Candor, Erin oversaw COVID testing logistics for organizations throughout the United States. She co-created client collateral and piloted new testing software in the infancy of the pandemic.
In addition to her work as Radical Candor’s operations manager, Erin also works with her local children’s hospital in a program that provides clinicians with opportunities to practice delivering difficult news to patients and families. Whether telling stories for connection, safeguarding public health, or bolstering communication skills, community is at the root of her career.
Outside of work, Erin is happiest by the water after spending her most recent paycheck at the nearest bookstore.
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Jason Rosoff
CEO + Co-Founder
Jason is the CEO and Co-founder of Radical Candor. Over the last four years, he’s helped all kinds of organizations, from tiny startups to the giants in the Fortune 100, realize the power of creating a more Radically Candid culture. Through this work, he’s helped hundreds of companies develop real human relationships between team members and through those relationships, achieve amazing results collaboratively. He has been a guest on myriad podcasts to talk about Radical Candor.
In his past lives, Jason received undergraduate and graduate degrees in business from New York University. He also worked as a product design team lead at Fog Creek Software, the small-but-mighty New York-based software company that created well-loved products like Trello and Stackoverflow. In 2010, he moved to California and helped launch Khan Academy, the world-renowned educational tech non-profit. Over the next seven years, he helped it grow from three people to a few hundred and reach over 100 million students around the world as both chief people and chief product officer.
Jason lives in a small town on the coast of Connecticut with his partner Jillian and dog Jack.
Amy Sandler
Principal Coach & Podcast Host
Amy Sandler is Principal Coach and Podcast Host at Radical Candor, where she’s also served as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Content Officer. Amy has trained tens of thousands of people worldwide, ranging from CEOs and leadership teams to recent graduates just starting their career. Her leadership philosophy focuses on empowering people to develop greater awareness, resilience and compassion, essential foundations for teamwork and shared success.
A pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based leadership practices to the workplace, Amy was selected in 2014 to be one of the first 30 certified teachers of the Search Inside Yourself leadership program developed at Google. Amy brought mindfulness training and breathwork meditation to executive coaching organizations Vistage and YPO, where she also served in leadership roles. (Watch a keynote she delivered to the Society for Marketing Professional Services.)
Amy has spoken about Radical Candor, the value of mindfulness at work and living authentically on podcasts including SuperManagers by Fellow, The Digital Workplace, Blue Sky Podcast, and the Unplug meditation app, where her Mindful Meeting was voted the top work meditation in 2021. In her interview with the Simple Habit app on “Mindfulness in the Workplace and Loving Yourself,” Amy shares her journey of being a recovering perfectionist, the continual sense of “not enough-ness” many high achievers struggle with, and how coming out as a member of the LGBTQ community in the mid-1990s set her on the path of inner inquiry and healing.
Amy has an AB and MBA from Harvard University and an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. A certified breathwork meditation teacher, Amy is in the third year of a medical Qi Gong teacher certification program. She has performed stand-up comedy and walked on fire seven times.
Watch Amy Go from Obnoxious Aggression to Manipulative Insincerity ▶️
Kim Scott
Co-Founder
Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better and co-founder of Radical Candor, a company that helps people put the ideas in her books into practice. She has been a guest on more than 100 podcasts to talk about Radical Candor and Radical Respect.
Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google.
She’s also managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.
Nora Wilcox
Director of Operations
Nora Wilcox is a program administrator with more than 10 years of experience designing and managing educational and training programs. Spending the majority of her career in the non-profit arts, she has helped organizations successfully scale their offerings; build cohesive and effective teams and develop operational strategy for growth.
Prior to joining Radical Candor, Nora was the associate director of education for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) — a critically acclaimed non-profit theater located in the New York City metro area. While there, Nora helped develop and implement innovative theater-based arts-in-education programs and performances for more than 60,000 students and educators annually. Both in her role at HVSF and now as director of operations at Radical Candor, Nora is passionate about creating meaningful experiences that empower people to be more empathetic and collaborative creators.
Nora currently lives in Texas with her husband, son and a gang of rescue animals — two cats, Mario and Luigi, and a dog named Cooper. When she’s not debating whether or not to open an Instagram account for her dog, you might find her baking gluten-free recipes or binge watching The Office.
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Meet The Radical Candor Team — Candor Coaches
Our highly skilled coaches are here to help your team roll out Radical Candor.
“Mel created emotional safety at MetaLab by sharing her own life story of Radical Candor that modeled to our employees how vulnerability can be a doorway to innovation. People still talk about the impact of her training today!” — Amber Larsen, Director of Learning & Development, MetaLab
Melissa Andrada
Candor Coach
Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Mel was the Chief Operations Officer of Learnerbly, a VC-backed workplace startup in London where she made Radical Candor a core organizational value, helped raised $1.6 million of funding in their first year, retained 100% of flagship clients and grew a team with 40% people of color and 40% women. Mel frequently gives interactive motivational keynotes focused on empowering marginalized communities (LGBTQ2IA+, women, people of color) and allies at organizations that have included The New York Times, Google and Out in Tech.
As a queer Filipina American born in Nigeria who came to the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant, Mel brings a global interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to facilitation and organizational change.
Becca Barish
Candor Coach
Becca Barish, LCSW, is a learning designer who uses her background in social work and improvisation to motivate connection, empathy, vulnerability and resilience in the workplace.
She believes that success can be boiled down to the everyday interactions that may seem small, but set the tone for the entire organizational culture.
As a licensed clinical social worker with a master’s degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago, Becca has worked to apply improv in clinical and business settings through her work as a designer and facilitator for Second City Works, the professional development arm of the iconic Second City theater, as well as serving as program head for Second City’s wellness department.
She has helped develop programs such as Improv for Anxiety, Improv for Autism, Humor Doesn’t Retire, Improv for Veterans, Improv for Clinicians and Improv for Parkinson’s. Most recently, she helped design Improvising Radical Candor’s live experience.
A collaboration between Second City Works and Radical Candor, Improvising Radical Candor incorporates improv performance and exercises to explore how to best manage Radically Candid feedback conversations.
She is also grateful to design and facilitate with Nova Collective, a company that trains across all levels of an organization to comprehend and operationalize core diversity, equity and inclusion concepts. Becca spends most of her time wondering if you’re gonna finish those fries and if not, hoping she can have them.
Terri Burns
Candor Coach
Terri Burns is a speaker, investor and builder. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, NYU, the youngest member in NYU’s history.
Most recently, she was a partner at Google Ventures (GV), the youngest partner in GV’s history, focused on investing in digital consumer companies.
She led deals in Locker Room (acquired by Spotify), HAGS (acquired by Snapchat) and stealth investments, while also participating in board work with companies like Bloom Tech, Kitchen United and others.
Burns is recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 awardee for Venture Capital. She is a practiced host and speaker, having served as two-time co-chair of Fortune Magazine’s annual Brainstorm Tech Conference.
She has given talks and keynote speeches at the likes of All Raise, Stanford GSB, the Teen Vogue Summit and many more.
She’s been featured in Vogue, Fortune Magazine, TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNBC, the Power Law book on venture capital and a plethora of additional publications.
Burns was previously an associate product manager at Twitter building features for the core product: the home timeline.
She also served as a board member at Brave Initiatives, a non-profit dedicated to educating young girls with computer science skills. She is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a bachelor’s from the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Jonny Camara
Candor Coach
Jonny Camara is a people development strategist, leadership coach, and diversity, equity and inclusion facilitator based in Berlin, Germany.
The son of an Irish mother and a Senegalese immigrant father, Jonny was raised in Ireland and had to overcome various challenges around identity and belonging. Navigating these challenges allowed him to discover his passion for understanding people and how they lead themselves and others.
He turned his passion into a career, where he has enabled thousands of leaders to build self-mastery, stronger relationships and highly effective teams.
His work is focused on engaging and practical learning experiences and leadership programs that drive organic change across all levels of organizations.
As a strong advocate for vulnerability at work, Jonny does not shy away from sharing his own story of becoming and being a leader — opening the space for others to relate and take away new strategies.
With over seven years of experience scaling organizations, like SumUp, Blinkist, Mercedes Benz and Carwow, Jonny uses his unique perspective to guide them toward more inclusive, authentic and healthy workplace practices.
Jonny has been a strong advocate for Radical Candor throughout his career. Whether leading a team or partnering with teams in their development, Radical Candor has always proven to be an inspiring and practical model for mastering the tricky intersections in human communication.
As an ex-rugby player, he finds balance through sport and fitness. On other days, you might catch him expressing his creative side as an actor or in a café reading a book on psychology or philosophy.
Aaron Dimmock
Candor Coach
Aaron Dimmock strives to humbly be himself in service of others so we may all become better human beings.
He believes that by creating cultures of candor, we enable each other to model the character, competence, and courage necessary for everyone to thrive in a psychologically safe environment.
A retired Naval Officer and Aviator, Aaron has had the privilege of serving in various managerial and leadership positions for over 20 years.
Most notably, he had the opportunity to serve as the Navy Representative to the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military Professionalism at the Pentagon, the CEO of a Navy Recruiting District and as a mission commander and instructor pilot in multiple tours of duty.
A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Aaron is currently working toward his Ph.D. while studying how candor shapes and sustains group performance.
In addition to Radical Candor, his research interests include culture, trust, discernment, ethics, leadership, human behavior, conflict resolution, organizational performance and value creation.
Aaron and his wife, Kim, have been married for 28 years and are blessed with the presence of four children in their lives – Camden, Kinsey, Amelia and Peyton.
Watch Aaron’s Ruinous Empathy story ▶️
Watch Aaron’s Obnoxious Aggression story ▶️
Bina Martin
Candor Coach
Bina Martin is a teacher, director, actor, writer, corporate facilitator and learning designer with over 20 years of experience across these varied fields. She is dedicated to what she calls “Human 101,” teaching individuals and industries to improve relationships, civility and productivity through improvisation, agility and deeper, more empathic understanding.
Bina is a facilitator and design lead at Second City Works, the business arm of the world renowned Second City theater, where she helped create Improvising Radical Candor, a live and virtual event collaboration between SCW and Radical Candor, that uses improv tools to help enhance the practice piece of feedback conversations. She was also a consultant on the partnership’s most recent digital offering, a workplace comedy series called The Feedback Loop.
A longtime faculty member of the Second City Training Center, Bina has taught in its Conservatory, Improv, Sketch Writing, Music, Youth, Online and Wellness programs, as well as directed numerous shows in its theaters. She was an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University. As an actor, Bina has appeared Off-Broadway in Lifegame (a two-act improvised play) and been featured in sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (the original on NBC), as well as in numerous plays at regional theaters across the country.
She is a co-author of the syndicated column, Miss Manners and the books, Miss Manners’ Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding and Placid Pregnancy: A Miss Manners Guide. She is also a contributor to The Second City Network, a website that consists of humorous essays and digital content. Bina is a graduate of Harvard and The Actors’ Studio Program at the New School and lives in Chicago with her husband and perfect child, Greta.
Lele Mason
Candor Coach
A very funny lady with a unique perspective, Lele Mason is a rising comedienne. Using her Master of Public Administration degree, she combines her understanding of organizational development and theory with comedy to enhance professional environments.
Beginning her career in comedy with improvisation, making the transition to stand-up comedy became a natural choice.
She has been teaching and facilitating since 2005. She has taught in various capacities and subjects of grades K-12.
Now she is currently working in professional spaces with companies and individuals far and wide to help them enhance their organizations.
She has designed and implemented several programs, most notably Quite the Character for the Non-Profit Organization Free Lunch Academy where she once served as the artistic director.
She understands team dynamics and the importance of communication. Her goal is to always maintain and support inclusive, fun, brave and safe working environments.
You can now catch her observational, experiential and curious approach on a virtual stage near you.
Farrah Mitra
Candor Coach
Farrah Mitra is an executive coach and advisor specializing in leadership, communications, and people strategy. She has over 15 years of experience as a Bain strategy consultant and people and culture executive at hyper-growth tech companies. She has supported the development of successful leaders across every industry. Farrah’s clients span the C-suite at Fortune 50 companies to small startups and nonprofits.
Farrah’s clients describe her as warm, empathetic, direct, and focused on results noting that she creates a safe environment that helps them walk out of each session thinking differently, with more clarity and confidence in their next steps. Farrah knows what it takes to be an operator in high-performance environments and she helps others create sustained change by centering her coaching around a mindset shift and practical skill building.
As a communications expert, Farrah has led over 200 Radical Candor workshops and keynotes. Her Communicating Change framework helps leaders navigate and communicate change clearly and effectively, creating a positive employee experience no matter how challenging the topic.
Farrah trained at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and holds MBTI, EQ-i, and the Leadership Circle Profile certifications. She graduated from Cornell University. When she’s not coaching and facilitating, Farrah enjoys swimming, visiting botanical gardens around the country, and leaning into her concert-going obsession.
Mike Pugh
Candor Coach
Meet The Radical Candor Team — Our Partners
Radical Candor partners with leadership coaching experts ilume to bring the concepts of caring personally and challenging directly to Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, our creative consultant helps bring our brand to life.
Nick Ditmore
Creative Contultant
As creative consultant for Radical Candor, Nick Ditmore is passionate about the humanist parallels between great design and team leadership. His passion for solving complex problems and humanizing technology has been the foundation of a 22-year award-winning career in design, creative direction and product development in industries ranging from fashion to publishing to enterprise software.
Most recently, Nick led the UX team of 25+ ambitious designers and researchers for Infor Retail, a revolutionary retail ERP software suite built in close collaboration with major retailers like Whole Foods, Walgreens, Target, Home Depot and Lululemon. A Southern California native, Nick now lives in Oakland after 12 years in NYC and before that, Tokyo. When he’s not solving problems for products and teams, he can be found outside rock climbing, long-distance cycling or woodworking.
Angela Neighbours
ilume Founder
Following 20 years successfully leading high-performing teams in global corporate roles, Angela Neighbours stepped into the world of professional development with the goal of helping people achieve more than they believed possible.
Radical Candor’s New Zealand coach, she has since coached over 3,000 leaders across NZ, Australia and the UK, and she has worked extensively with chief executives at some of NZ’s leading organizations.
Angela considers it an enormous privilege to see her clients spread their wings, take control of their lives, achieve new heights every day and transform their relationships at work.
Tim Ryan
Director of ilume Australia
Tim Ryan, Radical Candor’s Australia coach, is one of the most experienced and respected coaches in the country. With a career spanning more than 10 years in the industry, he has become widely recognized as “the vision and strategy guy.”
With his open and honest coaching style, Tim works effectively with all organizations – from small start-ups right through to ASX 100 clients – to help them successfully conquer challenges they thought were insurmountable.
His successful approach encourages business leaders to shift their mindsets, embrace new challenges and transform their relationships at work.
Natasha Osmond-Dreyer
ilume Candor Coach
Working in corporate leadership and strategic roles for over 17 years in Australia, the UK and across Europe, Natasha Osmond-Dreyer has developed a love of people and providing clear and simple frameworks to deliver success. Leading a diverse range of people in global organizations — in small multifaceted teams as well as large revenue-focused divisions in commercial banks — she transformed culture, identified issues and delivered significant returns for major businesses.
Inquisitive by nature, Natasha is deeply passionate about identifying what needs to change to help businesses and teams deliver.
Natasha has worked closely with a broad range of clients such as the ATO, CBA, Minter Ellison, Tomra, Arkose Labs, NAB and BNZ to deliver thought-provoking workshops to groups ranging from 10 to over 500. Inspiring and educating their leaders on business-critical skills such as leadership, and communication.
In addition to her facilitation work, she is a coach to several C-Suite executives and thrives as a constant learner — having also found time to complete a Fintech program at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and an MBA at the University of Canberra in the last two years.
Why is something
so simple so radical?
Let the Radical Candor team teach you how to build a feedback-first culture.
Inspiring Keynotes
A Candor Coach will introduce key concepts, share their own stories, and provide tips and tactics to get you started on your Radical Candor journey.
Immersive Workshops
Develop a shared vocabulary and practice Radical Candor's order of operations: solicit feedback, offer specific praise, and give criticism that’s kind and clear.
Laugh & Learn
The Feedback Loop program includes a workplace comedy starring David Alan Grier to help you develop a candid culture of effective feedback.