About Us: Advisors

LINDA KAVELIN POPOV

Linda Kavelin Popov is a psychotherapist, author, and co-Founder of The Virtues Project, an initiative to inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life. The Project was honored by the United Nations as a model global program for all cultures. She has been an organizational improvement consultant to clients such as Arthur Young International, Hallmark Cards, the United States General Accounting Office and General Motors. Linda is an inspiring international speaker who has spoken at conferences and conducted in depth retreats and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Pacific helping individuals, families, schools, governments and communities of all cultures to restore virtues such as forgiveness, integrity and kindness. She facilitates healing and community development with indigenous peoples such as the First Nations of North America, aboriginals in Australia, Maori in New Zealand, and Pacific Islanders, encouraging them to reclaim the virtues at the heart of their traditional values. She has been referred to as a “cultural creative”, and in 2001, received the 2001 YWCA Women of Distinction award for Education, Training and Development..

A psychotherapist for many years, Linda developed suicide and violence prevention programs used in U.S. cities. She is a member of the national Think Tank on Character for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. She has been on many talk shows, including Oprah, and has her own 19-episode documentary series on VISION TV in Canada, entitled “Virtues: A Family Affair”.

Linda is the author of the international best seller The Family Virtues Guide, (Penguin 1997) as well as Sacred Moments (Penguin 1997, Images International 2004), and The Virtues Project Educator’s Guide. (Jalmar Press, and Pro-Ed 2000)

She has had a miraculous recovery from workaholism and severe Post Polio Syndrome using the practices in A Pace of Grace.

Linda lives with her husband, Dan, in the Gulf Islands near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.