Kim Scott is an American leadership expert, author, and coach. She is best known for her bestselling book Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, which encourages leaders to care personally while challenging directly. Scott co-founded Radical Candor, LLC to help organizations apply her approach and has coached executives at companies such as Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter. She previously held leadership roles at Google and Apple, and earlier in her career managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and founded a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.