YOUR TEAM DOESN’T NEED ANOTHER
PEP TALK
They need to know they matter — visibly, specifically, structurally — and they need their leaders equipped to make that real.
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Help your people do their best work without losing their minds, their weekends, or their best employees.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
I work with organizations who know something has to change.
Corporate and community leadership teams ready to build cultures where people now they matter, they are trusted, and they can perform. Banks, growing businesses, healthcare systems — folks that know retention and performance start with how people feel at work.
Nonprofits and social service organizations where the mission is everything, and it’s too easy for the people carrying to run on empty. Direct care providers, program leaders, and the supervisors holding it all together.
Parent communities, networking groups, and entrepreneur networks looking for a speaker who's dynamic, real, research-backed, and leaves people re-energized for months
HOW I WORK
Your team needs you in the room with them, learning this together, building something where people know they're needed — not just employed.
I'm a trained facilitator, ICF-credentialed coach, and someone who has lived this work from the inside out. I spent nearly two decades in healthcare policy and organizational leadership — including leading pandemic response — before burning out myself and rebuilding from the ground up.
So when I stand in front of your team, I'm not guessing about what burnout feels like. And I'm definitely not giving a pep talk.
My sessions are interactive, research-grounded, and designed for real adult learners with real demands on their time and attention.
I use frameworks from neuroscience, self-determination theory, Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build research, and positive psychology (Seligman, 2011) — and I translate all of it into language and tools people can actually use.
I never just talk at a room. I facilitate. People work in small groups. They move around. They laugh. They have honest conversations with each other, sometimes for the first time. They leave with specific, practical tools they can implement Monday morning — and a shared language that keeps showing up in meetings weeks later.
And yes, I gesticulate like the New Jerseyan I am, a lot.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
Not your average professional development experience.
“The trainer was fantastic!”
”The presenter was highly knowledgeable and helpful, working through the participant’s thoughts, comments, and questions. Very well put together!”
”All of it!! Everything was so helpful and the instructor was open to listening and expanding on questions.”
I build every session around the actual humans in the room. Before I show up, I talk to your team. I learn what's really going on — not just the version that makes it into a planning meeting. I design around that.
If applicable, I also design for neurodivergent learners and people who are already exhausted. That means chunked information, highly visual content, story-driven learning, movement breaks, and explicit permission to participate in whatever way works best. Sit in the back. Skip the group activity. Take a walk. No one's getting called on.
People consistently tell me they were skeptical going in and surprised by how much they got out of it. I'm regularly re-booked, and on post-event surveys, the feedback follows a pattern — high ratings across the board, and requests for more time and deeper dives.
SPEAKING & TRAINING SERVICES
KEYNOTE SPEAKING
Custom Designed Workshops
Group Facilitation
Interested in working with me?
SELECT SPEAKING TOPICS
Neuroinclusive Workplaces: Unlocking Neurodivergent Talent Without Burnout
Neurodivergent employees often exhaust themselves masking "deficits" while their unique strengths go untapped.
Discover how organizations can redesign workflows and expectations to harness neurodivergent superpowers, while individuals learn to transform shame into self-advocacy. This partnership approach creates environments where different brains thrive, benefiting everyone.
Founder as Asset: Why Strategic Recovery Is Your Social Enterprise's Competitive Edge
For mission-driven entrepreneurs, burnout isn't just a personal risk—it's your venture's greatest vulnerability. Discover how high-impact founders can reframe rest as essential asset management rather than indulgence.
Learn tactical approaches to integrate strategic recovery cycles that fuel creativity, sharpen decision-making, and sustain your capacity for impact over the long game. Your social enterprise deserves a founder who's built to last as long as the change you seek to create.
The Manager's Multiplier Effect: Transforming Pressure into Protection
Squeezed between executive demands and frontline needs, middle managers face intense burnout risk while wielding enormous influence over team resilience.
Discover how to transform from stress conductor to resilience multiplier, creating protected zones where both you and your team can thrive despite organizational pressures.
The Resilience Alliance: Co-Creating Burnout-Proof Cultures
Burnout thrives when seen as either an individual weakness or organizational failure alone.
Discover how companies and employees can partner strategically—transforming workplace systems while empowering individuals to set boundaries—creating sustainable cultures where both people and performance flourish.
Parents Are People Too: The Revolutionary Path from Burnout to Family Flourishing
Discover why putting yourself first isn't selfish—it's necessary for your entire family's wellbeing.
Learn practical environmental hacks, rhythm-building strategies, and the powerful WAVE method to transform resistance into cooperation. When parents thrive instead of merely survive, everything changes—for everyone.
What participants are saying
All evaluations [for over 100 participants in a 2-day training] had 100% yes for 'would you recommend this training to a friend or colleague' — that doesn't happen often! Congrats!"
— Director of Training, Butler County Family & Children First Council
"I wish my whole team could have been there!"
-- Good to Great Leadership participant"I truly do not have suggestions for improvement. It was well-planned, well-paced, and presented in a clear and organized manner. The best I’ve ever attended!”
-- Burnout Resilience Training participant"I can’t stop telling the people around me the things I've learned from the workshop."
— Rest as a Competitive Advantage participant
About Kim
I'm an ICF-credentialed coach, trained facilitator, and keynote speaker with nearly 20 years of experience leading change in complex systems — including healthcare policy, nonprofit leadership, and state-level pandemic response. I host the podcast Now That You See It with Pancho Gomez and write at The Quitters Club.
I burned out spectacularly. Then I rebuilt. Then I learned why it happened and how to help others do the same — with neuroscience, positive psychology, and the kind of direct warmth that comes from having lived it.
I bring proprietary frameworks (the Forest Fire Burnout Map and FLOURISH recovery model) alongside established research to every engagement. My approach is science-backed, shame-free, and built to meet people where they actually are.
Let's figure out what your team needs.
I start every engagement with a real conversation — not a sales call. Tell me about your organization, your people, and what you're hoping to accomplish. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit and what I'd recommend.
