Kinsey Anderson

BFA, MPH, Founder of Love Move Breathe

Kinsey melds a rare blend of artistry, public health expertise, program management, and leadership to empower others, implement change, and create lasting community impact. Throughout her career, Kinsey has been driven by a primary guiding force: her desire to understand the various factors influencing individual and community well-being. Paired with her passion for using creative strategy and collaboration to help others achieve their highest quality of life, Kinsey is a change-maker dedicated to leaving each person, project, and community she touches better than she found it.

Kinsey holds a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As an undergraduate, Kinsey didn’t shy away from asking hard questions and exploring links between movement, human connection, progress, and joy. That drive and curiosity followed her through graduate school and beyond, leading to a variety of professional experiences. Her work has ranged from establishing Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s first kids’ yoga camp after a historic 2016 flood—an effort to teach much-needed social emotional skills—to designing and launching an annual awards program and facility report cards for Kansas’ Newborn Screening Program to improve screening and directly impact the lives of Kansas babies born with rare diseases.

As founder of Love. Move. Breathe., Kinsey channels her experience and creative energy into helping clients and communities plan, execute, and evaluate projects and programs that impact health and social outcomes. Whether teaching yoga, facilitating workshops, or guiding strategic initiatives, Kinsey finds fulfillment in bridging the worlds of public service, social science, and creative expression to inspire positive change that moves people forward.

What does it mean to Love Move Breathe?

LOVE:

To operate from a place of compassion and service to others. To always see potential, positivity, and possibilities in the people we work with and in the work that we do.

MOVE:

To consistently move in ways that better ourselves, our world, and our work. Change is not only constant; it’s essential. We must be open to change to continually improve. Even in truly complex and wickedly challenging situations, change provides contrast and critical information that can be used to keep moving forward.

BREATHE:

To take time to reflect and learn. To be mindful and intentional. To honor the mind-body connection and take care of ourselves. To honor the relationships between our personal and work.

Kinsey’s CliftonStrengths and Leadership Style

CliftonStrengths is an assessment of an individual’s “talent DNA” from Gallup. Kinsey’s top five strengths are:

  1. Communication (Influencing domain)
  2. Input (Strategic Thinking domain) 
  3. Learner (Strategic Thinking domain) 
  4. Woo (Influencing domain) 
  5. Harmony (Relationship Building domain) 

Her top strengths explain why she is able to quickly adapt to a variety of situations and projects, while building relationships, promoting collaboration, staying organized, and facilitating consensus. These five strengths are among 34 unique strengths, or ‘themes,’ identified by Dr. Don Clifton. Each theme falls into one of four domains—strategic thinking, relationship building, influencing, and executing. The ranking of these themes, their respective domains, and how they interact is unique for each person, like their DNA. Kinsey is proud to be a communicative lifelong learner, who appreciates considering diverse perspectives, building connections with others, and prioritizing collaborative decision making.