"The Path of Powerful Kindness" is a profound book. It serves as a remedy for healing our world, emphasizing the significance of choosing kindness and embodying the essence of an evolved human being. 

Within the pages of this work, you will embark on a journey of self-discovery, uncovering:

1. The transformative power of kindness, enriching both your life and the lives of others. 


2. Effective methods to nurture kindness within yourself and foster harmonious relationships. 


3. Strategies to overcome challenges and obstacles that may hinder your path to kindness. 


4. Ways to spread kindness within your community and extend its impact far beyond.

"The Path of Powerful Kindness" goes beyond being a mere book; it serves as a movement, philosophy, and a way of life. It beckons each of us to take action and make a positive difference in the world we inhabit.

Barbara Vercruysse is a Global Kindness Advocate, Mentor, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant, Thought Leader and Public Speaker. She is Founder of the ‘BV Empowerment & Kindness Institute’ where her mission is to offer individuals and organizations tools and insights to lead with kindness and compassion. She has been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years and since surviving a stage four cancer 20 years ago, she has been committed to leave a positive legacy through bringing a message of the need for more kindness and compassion in all layers of society. She always combines practicality with profound wisdom.

One of her clients as a business consultant is a group of BMW dealers where she operates as a Quality Lead and Lead of Operational Excellence. She is responsible for screening all business processes and guiding people to perform optimally in their job. She has also been part of the management team there for almost a decade. Since her collaboration, not only have all sales and quality objectives been achieved annually in these BMW dealerships, but the employee retention rate has also risen dramatically.

She has been selected #1 Top 50 Global Thought Leaders on Mental Health by Thinkers360 since 2021. Thinkers360 is the world’s first, largest, and premier league for thought leaders - including academics, advisors, analysts, authors, consultants, entrepreneurs, executives, influencers, and speakers.

She was published in the Huffington Post and Thrive Global. She reaches millions of people with her weekly Inspirational Talks on different social platforms.

She has been giving the opening speech for Girl Up Jabalpur – a United Nations Foundation talking about Leading with Powerful Kindness. She has given talks on the same topic for the Soft Skill Community of Microsoft (+1,600 managers), at the Kindness@Work Conference and talked about The Path of Powerful Kindness at Harvard University (the Graduate School of Education) in the Summer of 2022. Recently she did the opening Keynote Speech at the WYSS (World Young Scientist Summit).

She is the President of Professional Women International, a Brussels-based membership association, part of the PWN Global network with the aim to help women grow and succeed professionally and to accelerate the move to more gender-balanced leadership in business and society. The values that guide PWI are those of respect, courage, collaboration, excellence, and inclusiveness.

In The Path of Powerful Kindness, Barbara takes the reader on a quest on how Humanity ended up forgetting its Heart and shifted the essence of existence in the past centuries to a purely materialistic and individualistic experience leaving us humans exhausted, depressed, and empty. She offers insights on how we can restore the balance in reconnecting Power with Kindness and she provides us a pragmatic approach to becoming an agent of transformation on a micro and macro level through advocating Powerful Kindness.