Meet 
Kathy Andersen

The Formal Version...

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Kathy Andersen is an award-winning author, advocate, and community leader, internationally recognized for helping people, communities, and organizations achieve happiness, purpose, and impact. 

 

For over 20 years, Kathy has transformed visions into realities to create impact and positive change for leaders, organizations, and communities. Kathy holds a master’s degree from Harvard University Kennedy School in international development and leadership.

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Combining western research and practice on leadership and positive psychology with teachings and practices of mindfulness and well-being from Kathy's work and training with Buddhist monks in India, along with her own life experience of overcoming a childhood of sexual abuse, Kathy offers a pragmatic and personal, yet deeply insightful and thought-provoking path to overcoming hardship and embracing happiness with purpose and impact.

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Kathy's award-winning book, Change Your Shoes, Live Your Greatest Life, and accompanying workbook, Change Your Shoes, 365 Life Resolutions, have helped readers internationally to overcome difficult circumstances and step into happiness. In 2015, Kathy co-authored the international bestseller, The Soul of Success, with Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul® series and The Success Principles) and other experts in the field of personal and business success. In Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s Option B, (2017), Kathy’s story is shared to help others face adversity, build resilience, and find joy. Kathy's podcast, Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse was rated the #1 podcast in its category by Feedspot in 2022.
 

Kathy is a regular visiting scholar at the Central University of Tibetan Studies in India, where she develops and facilitates leadership workshops that integrate Buddhist philosophies with modern-day leadership approaches. In 2007, Kathy presented a seminar on universities as agents of global benefit at the World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2006, Kathy’s paper, The Impact Domain, highlighting a new business model for simultaneously creating company growth and national growth, was presented at the United Nations-sponsored conference on Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western University in the United States.

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In 2022, Kathy founded END1IN4, Inc, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization with a mission to end the impact and magnitude of child sexual abuse through breakthrough public awareness and engagement campaigns, education, and advocacy. Kathy has created award-winning national and international public awareness campaigns. In 2019 and 2020, Kathy led the creation and execution of The Official Super Bowl Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign for the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee and NFL Foundation, and award-winning public awareness and advocacy campaigns on issues to advance women and girls. In 2015, Kathy collaborated with the Clinton Foundation to develop a Clinton Global Initiative America Commitment to Action to train and transition under-served youth and young adults into entry level jobs. Kathy has collaborated with Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook, and Sheryl’s Lean In foundation to facilitate empowerment programs for girls who have been victims of sex trafficking and exploitation.

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In addition to Kathy’s master’s degree at the Harvard Kennedy School, Kathy has undertaken several executive programs at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School on management, leadership, and  non-profit governance. Kathy also holds a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Technology, Sydney; and Graduate Management Qualification from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

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Kathy is a trained Adaptive Leadership facilitator through Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership, and has studied Positive Psychology through the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center. Kathy is also a trained facilitator for Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global, and a certified Success Principle's coach with The Jack Canfield Companies. Kathy is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association.

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Kathy's awards have included: Marquis Who's Who for Excellence in Non-Profit Leadership (2023),The 2020 Global Innovation Foundation Power and Influencer Award, 2019 Thelma Gibson Award - Women’s Chamber of Commerce, 2019 South Florida Business Journal Business of Pride Award, and the 2019 CEO and General Counsel South Florida Builder Award.

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Kathy lives with her wife, Laura Kozelouzek, in Miami Beach as "home base," along with their five-pound Teacup Schnauzer, Tinkerbell; and with frequent visits from their University of Miami-attending son, Jordan.