Business Book Launch: Lead With Kindness by Melinda Hsu

Thu May 28 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-07:00

Village Well Books & Coffee | Culver City

Village Well Books & Coffee
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Business Book Launch: Lead With Kindness by Melinda Hsu
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Melinda Hsu offers a pathway towards kindness in the workplace and beyond.
About this Event

Join us for the launch of Melinda Hsu's new book Lead With Kindness!

Lead With Kindness offers clear guidance to those who yearn for more functional, efficient, humane, high-achieving workplaces and group collaborations. Sharing concise insights and tough love, Hsu presents a compelling and accessible roadmap for implementing kindness as a means to achieve a more effective and lasting impact in every sphere of your life.

Joining Melinda in conversation is writer-producer Maria Elena Rodriguez.

About the book:

Kindness is a powerful tool for success in the workplace and beyond.

With over twenty years of experience as a TV producer, writer, and showrunner, Melinda Hsu survived brutally toxic environments during her rise through the ranks of an incredibly demanding industry. Despite these challenges, she emerged as an accomplished and respected role model for leading with intentional kindness—and not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s good for business.

Consider Lead With Kindness your handbook for how to instill and sustain kindness-driven business practices in order to create successful outcomes. With concise insights and tough love, Hsu offers clear guidance to those who yearn for more functional, efficient, humane, and high-achieving workplaces and group collaborations.

You don’t have to be a leader or an altruist to benefit from this book. Hsu’s proven and result-oriented strategies, tactics, and methods can be applied from anywhere within a workplace ecosystem or a group of individuals. In ten brief (because time is precious) chapters, she presents a compelling and accessible roadmap for implementing kindness—and its supporting tenets of inclusion, trust, love, calm, transparency, work-life integration, accountability, safety, and service—as a means to achieve a more effective and lasting impact in every sphere of your life.

About the participants:

Melinda Hsu is a TV writer-producer and showrunner of such series as Nancy Drew and Tom Swift. With over twenty years of experience in Hollywood, she survived brutally toxic environments during her rise through the ranks and has become a role model for leading with intentional kindness—not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s really good for business.

Maria Elena Rodriguez is a TV writer and producer. Her first job in TV was production managing The Simpsons. Working as a line producer, then drama writer, taught her how money, morale and uncertain management affect both product and workforce. She is also active in criminal justice reform where kindness is a magical power.

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Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, United States

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