The Power Of Radical Candor At Work (And Beyond) with Jason Rosoff

Welcome to We Are Human Leaders.

This conversation with Jason Rosoff of Radical Candour illuminates the power in caring personally about those we work with  and having the courage to challenge directly. It debunks the myths of brutal honesty and presents a more effective and compassionate way to have hard conversations that drive psychological safety. 

It's a lesson that’s important well beyond our worklife.

Jason is the CEO and Co-founder of Radical Candor, working alongside Kim Scott the author and researcher behind the Radical Candour concept. Over the last four years, Jason has 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.

You’ll hear more in the podcast about Jason’s self-described career meander and how he’s coming to doing this work.

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.