👽Kimberly Wiefling

Summary

+1 650 867 0847 | Email: kwiefling@gmail.com | Expertise: http://www.kimberlywiefling.com | Transforming Individuals & Organizations to Achieve "Impossible" Business Results through highly interactive, engaging "workSHOCK Learning Labs". "I'm a Trusted Advisor, Valued Partner & Respected Colleague - I shock companies into fixing the things that will Damage or Destroy their organizations along with $Bs in shareholder value. 2023 I'm experimenting with integrating ChatGPT into our workSHOCKS!" - Kimberly Wiefling Kimberly Wiefling has extensive experience in the R&D and manufacturing of complex systems of hardware, software, firmware, chemistry and physics. She’s held leadership positions ranging from NPI Program Manager to VP of Program Management at HP & Organizational Effectiveness for a Xerox Parc spinoff, and has helped companies from startups to Global 1000 successfully grow and – more importantly - SCALE. A physicist by education, she has found that many of these are “human” problems that don’t require “rocket science”. All that’s required to achieve significant positive impact in many cases is to make common sense into common PRACTICE. DEEP EXPERIENCE in GLOBAL COMPANIES. Kimberly has worked in the US, Europe & Asia, primarily with culturally diverse groups of employees in globalizing Japanese companies. Her superpower is bringing people with diverse backgrounds, cultures & styles together, connecting them across borders, boundaries & barriers of every kind, to achieve what seems impossible, but is merely difficult, and which none could achieve alone. • RETAINED KEY EMPLOYEES • IMPROVED MANUFACTURABILITY & AFR • OPTIMIZED NPI PIPELINE • INCUBATED INNOVATION SPECIALIZING in CROSS-FUNCTIONAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL TEAMS. Kimberly has worked globally with people from over 50 different countries, in every corporate function. Her clients include many well-known global brands in a broad range of industries. FROM STARTUPS to GLOBAL 1000. Kimberly's a serial entrepreneur, the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and co-founder of Silicon Valley Alliances. She’s been involved in launching ~ a dozen startups, and was the VP of Program Management & Organizational Effectiveness for one that was acquired by Google in 2001. She invested in and coached the founder of EmbeddedWorks, which bootstrapped to 7 figure annual revenues. MAKING a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE: Kimberly is passionate about making a meaningful positive difference by working with organizations committed to solving the problems of Our World – profitably, so this good work continues!