Toledo
Third-generation firefighter's son. Working-class household, boat trips for summer vacation. A queer kid in 1980s Ohio, learning early which parts of himself were safe to show.
MEET JIM FIELDING
A life rebuilt.
A new way to lead.
After decades inside high-stakes rooms, Jim Fielding created The League of Radical Kindness for leaders who want power, trust, and humanity to live in the same room.
Executive. Speaker. Bestselling author of All Pride, No Ego. Founder of The League of Radical Kindness.
Field Notes · The Story Behind the League
The rooms that shaped the work.
A working-class kid from Toledo who learned early how to read a room, then spent 35+ years building and leading teams at some of the world's best-loved companies.
The Rooms
Gap. Lands' End. Then Disney Stores Worldwide, where he led a full turnaround of a struggling global business. Later, CEO of Claire's, then Fox and DreamWorks.
$1.2BDisney Stores
350Prototype tours
“My career changed the moment I stopped spending half my energy hiding the other half of my life.”
THE STORY BEHIND THE WORK
When the old room disappeared.
In late 2019, two identities that had shaped Jim Fielding’s life fell apart at the same time.
Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, and for the first time, Jim was separated from a role he loved. At that same moment, his marriage was ending.
He stepped into a six-month sabbatical expecting to catch his breath and return to the corporate world in April 2020. Then Covid hit. The world shut down. The industry went dark. The next chapter disappeared.
No interviews.
No meetings.
No handshakes.
For a while, there was no obvious next step and no familiar room waiting for him.
He still had a voice.
He still had a story.
He still had power beyond the title.
Every week, his chosen family showed up on Zoom. Then Jim opened forty years of journals and found a truth waiting inside those pages.
That lived experience became the foundation for a different kind of leadership.
Jim went back to school, became an executive coach, wrote a bestselling book, built a speaking career, launched a podcast, and created a life that finally fit the person he was becoming.
ON THE JOB
Twenty five years of magic, one Disney store at a time
Today
Atlanta, with the people who matter most.
His life's ambition has always been to leave his corner of the world better than he found it. These days that means Atlanta, a husband, two dogs, and a family that's never stopped showing up.
Selected Proof
The record behind the story.
USA Today BestsellerAll Pride, No Ego · 2023
Harvard Business ReviewProfiled · 2023
50 to 800People per speaking room
Ask for an AnswerPodcast
WHAT GUIDES THE WORK
Kindness is power that scales where ego cannot.
Jim Fielding’s work is grounded in a simple conviction: leadership grows stronger when people can tell the truth, build belonging, and stay connected to who they are under pressure.
Radical Kindness as Strategy
Kindness built into how work actually happens.
Authenticity & Vulnerability
Honesty about challenge, change, and imperfection.
Equity & Belonging
Cultures where people feel safe, valued, and included.
Courageous Clarity
Hard things said with empathy and values intact.
Legacy Thinking
Systems and trust that continue beyond one leader.
Sustainability
Leadership that preserves the person doing it.
Where the Story Leads
He didn't just find his way back. He built a room for everyone else finding theirs.
Every Lorkling is a leader who stopped performing. There's one in here that looks a lot like Jim.
Everything Jim learned about reading a room, building a team, and telling the truth kindly is now the curriculum inside The League of Radical Kindness. He's not teaching from a stage above you. He's in the room with you.
WHO YOU ARE
Calling All Lorklings
We’re looking for leaders who know kindness carries courage, clarity can be caring, and work should feel a little more… human.
The Lorklings give shape to the patterns leaders carry under pressure: how they protect, push, steady, notice, connect, challenge, and grow.
The Lorklings may look playful.
The work they represent carries real weight.
THE INVITATION
Lead from who you are.
Radical Kindness is for leaders ready to build trust, shape culture, and stay fully human while doing the work that matters.
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