Kyrah Altman is the Chill Executive Officer and co-founder of LEAD an organization devoted to cultivating mental health and wellbeing in organizations and communities around the world. She is one of those rare, wholehearted leaders pushing back against the dominant narrative that constantly drives us to produce, to perform, to be perfect without ever revealing our full humanity.
Kyrah co-founded LEAD (Let's Empower, Advocate, and Do) 10 years ago as a 15-year-old high school student. Today, the fast-growing organization provides teaching, training, coaching, and a huge library of resources dedicated to what she calls "no fluff" mental health education. She travels the world speaking about the impact of social entrepreneurship on trauma survivors, the importance of addressing mental health and well-being, and of destigmatizing mental illness, particularly in vulnerable communities.
Ultimately, Kyrah is a champion for the idea that while not everyone has a mental illness, everyone can improve mental health. All of us live in contexts that are producing pain and suffering, but we can all contribute to the reduction of that pain in how we treat each other, how we treat ourselves, and how we build thriving cultures by inviting everyone to show up as full human beings.
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