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Dr. Kimberley Gordon is not the traditional business consultant. Dr. Gordon brings to her role years of real-world, first-hand experience, academic training, and ongoing global partnerships. She is a subject matter expert in leadership and organizational development through the HRM lens. Solutions she offers include people and organization assessments against strategic goals and the remedies to close KSA gaps. During her early years, she was an HR pro caring for 1,300 people from 19 countries. Her experience includes stints at Tyson Foods and Sara Lee. Dr. Gordon hopped up the proverbial ladder where she managed mentoring and professional development for a group of 250-plus high-potential employees scattered around the globe. Her goal in the LOD role was to demonstrate the linkage between organizational strategic success and the development of the organization’s most vital asset – its people.

Dr. Gordon moved to academia to expand her reach beyond the food industry. The training programs she developed in the private sector were shared with hundreds of organizations and impacted thousands of novice and seasoned leaders. Her hot topics include strategic training and development, increasing ROI of training and development, meeting BSC goals by enhancing KSAs, improved job satisfaction, pipeline development. risk management, and inclusion. Her recent engagements are heavily weighted in frontline leadership for industry leaders such as ABB, Rheem, and Tokai Carbon as well as small mom-and-pop businesses and service industries leaders. Regardless of the organization, Dr. Gordon works to increase the economic viability of these organizations and the communities to which they belong. Her mindset is to make learning fun. She challenges her partners to never stop learning since we will never arrive at the destination of fully informed. Seek to continually refresh, refuel, and reset, for what is relevant today may not be relevant tomorrow. To consciously choose not to learn or grow – even for a single day – is to summon intellectual death. Go out and do great things.