Kim is an equity-minded facilitator and certified leadership development coach for social change leaders with a commitment to co-creating inclusive and just spaces and relationships for transformation. Through her practice, KRB Consulting + Coaching, she partners with individuals, teams, and organizations on their leadership to align people, purpose and planning for impact. She commits to being fully rooted in an open-hearted, non-judgmental, life-affirming presence in service of mutual healing, accessing our best selves, and composing liberated lives. Her early days as a Peace Corps volunteer shaped her still evolving passion and accountability to locally owned, and culturally relevant community development and leadership. 

For the past 7 years, Kim has co-led the Seattle-based, Global Leadership Forum, a peer cohort program for mid-career and senior-level, globally-oriented leaders. Kim also partners with the Nonprofit Association of Washington as a co-developer and trainer of strategic planning and nonprofit governance modules for local and national audiences.

Kim has over 25 years of experience in building the capacity of organizations and leaders from inside and out in various staff and leadership roles in global philanthropy, environmental sustainability, global issues education, international exchange, and community development. Prior to working as a solopreneur, Kim served as the Executive Director of Pangea Giving, a global giving circle that partners with grassroots, community-based organizations in East Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. There she oversaw grants to 18 community-based partners. Before her tenure at Pangea, Kim worked for almost a decade at Facing the Future, a K-12 education organization that develops and delivers hands-on global and sustainability curriculum that reached over 2,000 K-12 teachers and 1.5 million students each year. She developed and presented over 200 workshops, keynotes, and webinars to more than 5,000 educators. She also served as the Co-Chair of the K-12 Sector Team of the US Partnership United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

Kim earned a Master of Public Administration degree with a focus on nonprofit management and international development from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University. She is a lifelong learner, and most recently completed certification in the Extraordinary Team Inventory tool!

Where Kim learns the most these days is on the home front as a parent to two teenage children who attend Seattle Public Schools and as a spouse to her college sweetheart. She also stays active in her kids’ schools through PTSA efforts centering on race and equity. In her free time, you’ll find her in the outdoors, enjoying family and friends, making family photo albums, and reading the latest pick by her book club!