How can we move from understanding kindness to actually practicing it in our daily lives and work?

In this episode of On Kindness, Balaji Venkatraman, a product management and marketing leader known for driving innovation and transformation, joins to explore how the principles that guide great engineering can also guide more human leadership.

The conversation unpacks how respect, empathy, and gratitude form the groundwork for meaningful connection, and how translating those values into action builds stronger teams and communities. Balaji and Nicole also discuss why a foundation of trust is essential, and how kindness, when layered on that foundation, shows up as honest feedback, growth, and shared success.

This conversation is a thoughtful look at how structure, awareness, and heart can coexist and how we can all learn to engineer a little more kindness into our everyday lives.