As a passionate human resource professional, Kim has spent more than 30 years as a trailblazer to advance the profession and mentor human resource professionals along their growth and development journey. After several years of working for organizations as their first HR leader, Kim transitioned into a consulting role.  She partnered with hundreds of organizations in a variety of industries, for profit and not for profit, to mentor their human resource professionals and to assist in strengthening the human resource function of the organization.   

In 2017, Kim founded her company, THriv, to mentor, coach, teach, and train human resource professionals and other leaders for success. She partners with organizations to provide a variety of business consulting, training & development, compliance management, and other human resource related services.

Kim has had the opportunity to speak on leadership and human resource related topics at a variety of events locally and nationally including the 2019 National SHRM Conference in Las Vegas.   

Kim has spent more than 20 years teaching the SHRM HR Essentials, the SHRM Learning System, and other human resource related courses to mentor and encourage human resource professionals to grow in their professional development and pass the certification exam! Kim teaches through a variety of universities and has recently joined the SHRM Instructional Team.