Kichu Krishnan was the kind of person who made you feel like you had all the time in the world, even when teaching you exactly how to use it. He was warm, deeply curious, and completely unpretentious. He laughed easily. He listened before he spoke. He remembered the names of participants he had met years before.

He had a quality that is rare in someone so accomplished: he made other people feel capable. He did not teach productivity from a whiteboard. He lived it, refined it over decades, and gave it freely to anyone willing to do the work. People who knew him personally describe him as someone who practiced exactly what he preached, not as performance, but as a way of being.

Outside of WorkSmart, he rode motorcycles across mountain passes, shared meals with strangers who became friends, and showed up for people in ways that had nothing to do with goals or planning. What drove him was the moment when someone finally saw how to close the gap between where they were and where they wanted to be.