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Beyond the Impossible!

As a leader, if you don’t have contagious enthusiasm, whatever you DO have is ALSO contagious! KIMBERLY WIEFLING could possibly be the most enthusiastic leader of the 21st century. The founder and principal of Wiefling Consulting. Kimberly’s philosophy in a nutshell: “Business leaders need not choose between enabling a highly profitable business and a high quality of life for their people. My work enables effective leadership and program management strategies that are proven to increase productivity, deliver as much as 30% greater profitability, increase customer delight, and dramatically improve the quality of life for both leaders and their people.”

Ready to infect your company with the “Kimberly virus?” Maybe it’s time. Working with Kimberly gives you access to what you want but don’t think you can get.  (Download Bio)

Are you getting the results you want?

Whatever results you are getting, I guarantee you that the system is perfectly designed to deliver these results. Here’s an example:

“In any economic climate, the ability to attract and retain talented people is one of the greatest advantages any company can possess. My purpose is to transform the leading workplaces of this Valley into thriving, abundant and life-affirming communities that enable us to work in our right livelihoods, sustain us abundantly, and contribute to the greater good of the community in which we live. By so doing I believe that we will create a competitive advantage that cannot be duplicated.”

If you want an ordinary, safe, politically correct consultant . . . look elsewhere!  Kimberly will challenge you.  Kimberly uses all of her energy and creativity to enable you to achieve the business results you need.  These videos give you a dose of her style. If these are too wild and intense for you, you sure won’t want to hire her – 90% of people won’t, but those who do WILL succeed!

Bio

Kimberly Wiefling, Executive Editor of the Scrappy About Series, is a proven expert in enabling people to achieve what seems impossible, but is merely difficult.  She is the author of one of the top project management books in the US, “Scrappy Project Management – The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces”, a book growing in popularity around the world, and recently published in Japanese by Nikkei Business Press.  She is the founder of Wiefling Consulting, LLC, a global leadership and business management consulting firm.  She currently spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies, facilitating leadership, innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies to solve global problems profitably.

A physicist by education, and a successful business leadership and project management consultant for the past 9 years, she began her professional career working for 10 years at HP in product development project management and engineering leadership. She spent 5 years in the wild and wacky world of Silicon Valley startups, including a Xerox Parc spinoff where she was the VP of Program Management.  In 2001 she rose from the ashes of the dot-com bust, launched her consulting practice, and never looked back.

In typical Silicon Valley style, Kimberly has helped to start, run and grow a dozen small businesses.  Several of the startups that she co-founded are still in business and profitable.

Kimberly’s clients include companies like Cisco Systems, Symantec, Intuit, HP, Agilent Technologies, Mazda, Daiichi Sankyo, Dow Corning Toray, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the University of California, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Siemens, Hitachi, Alcoa, Xerox PARC, NECsoft, NTT DoCoMo, and many more.

Over 5000 people have viewed the hysterical video documenting the final phase of completing her book.  She’s obsessed with collaboration, and you can reach her via email at kimberly@wiefling.com

Kimberly is contributing to making the world a better place in a number of ways.  She’s the co-founder of the Open Kilowatt Institute (OKI) and the co-chair of the SDForum Engineering Leadership Special Interest Group (EL SIG).  She’s supporting micro-finance for entrepreneurs throughout the world via Kiva, and she supports the economic independence of women in various ways around the world because she believes that this is the most effective way raise the quality of life for all people.

Notable Highlights Along the Journey

Kimberly has been an invited presenter with the Humphrey Fellows at UC Santa Cruz for 3 years. The Humphrey Fellowship is a prestigious and highly competitive international education program. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished professionals from designated countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia to the United States at a midpoint in their careers for a year of study and related professional experiences. The Program provides a basis for establishing long-lasting productive partnerships and relationships between citizens of the United States and their professional counterparts in other countries, fostering an exchange of knowledge and mutual understanding throughout the world.

Credentials

• M.S., Physics, Case Western Reserve University
• B.S., Physics & Chemistry, Wright State University
• Project Management Certificate, UC Ext. Santa Cruz
• Coaching training: ITM Coaching, Enneagram, and “The Thinking Environment.”
• USAF Certificate in Electronics
• CBEST 2002
• ALC Education Global Management Consulting Group Program Leader
• UC Santa Cruz Faculty
  • Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows Program Instructor
  • Management Institute of Leadership Excellence (MILE) Module Leader
  • Project Management Certificate Program
  • Corporate Program
  • English Language International Program

Kimberly’s Extensive Experience Includes:

Outride, Inc. As VP of Program Management at Outride, a Xerox PARC spin off, she established a life-affirming culture with zero-turnover, and was recognized for exemplary people treatment during an all hands layoff.

Omix, Inc. As VP of Process Excellence at OMIX, a leading designer and developer of robust, scaleable, secure e-Business solutions for the internet, she led the company through a turnaround during a challenging economic downturn.

ReplayTV, Inc. As Senior Program Manager, she led the entire cross-functional product development team, including hardware, software, marketing, and operations, to a successful launch of their first retail consumer electronics product co-branded with Panasonic. Her leadership established the foundation for company-wide product lifecycle best practices. Candescent Technologies Corporation As program manager at Candescent Technologies, developer of novel flat panel displays, she led a strategically important joint development team with Sony.

Hewlett-Packard, Inc. Kimberly spent 10 years with Hewlett-Packard where her contributions included:

• R&D Program Manager
• Manufacturing Engineering Manager
• Product Development Alliance Liaison
• Manufacturing Engineer
• Reliability Engineer
• Team Process Facilitator and Quality Coach
• Product Lifecycle Process Development Lead
• Field Service Installation & Repair Engineer