Kathy Andersen

Award-Winning & Best-Selling Author; Speaker; MPA, Harvard University.
Kathy Andersen is an award-winning author and internationally recognized for helping people, communities, and organizations achieve happiness, purpose, and impact. 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 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 offers a pragmatic and personal, yet deeply insightful and thought-provoking path to overcoming hardship and embracing happiness with purpose and impact by 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 Kathy’s own life experience of overcoming a childhood of sexual abuse.

Latest from Kathy Andersen

Overcome Your Mood and Make Positive Choices For Your Happiness.

Determine Your 2021— Decide and Do It, Despite the Difficulty

5 Ways to Embrace the New Year and Overcome Adversity In 2021

What Are You Doing To Thrive?

In 2017, Give Yourself the Gift of Your Presence

Take Charge and Set The Terms For Your Day And Your Life

“I’ve got nothing to lose in trying to live the biggest life I can.”

Option B Helps You Begin The Rest Of Your Life After Adversity, Even When You Don’t Want To.