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Kimberly Kemp

About Kimberly Kemp

Kimberly Kemp works as a human performance technologist who helps clients to solve their business problems. Kim has worked at RWD since 1997 in a wide variety of roles, though currently serves in a business development role with responsibility for managing some of RWD’s most strategic accounts. As Strategic Account Manager, Kimberly is responsible for developing, fostering, and growing strategic business relationships with business leaders by guiding and recommending approaches to execute business strategies and initiatives. Kimberly functions as the customer contact and advocate building a deep understanding of each customer’s strategic direction, identifying and shaping customer requirements, developing a winning strategy, while teaming across RWD. In previous roles, Kim has provided oversight to project teams that implemented global learning strategies, change management, and performance improvement solutions designed to accelerate the comprehension and use of complex technology, improve the chances of initiative success, and improve the performance of front line workers. Ms. Kemp has helped clients implement such solutions in the consumer products, manufacturing, government, communications and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to 1997, Ms. Kemp was a Chinese-Mandarin Language Translator and Instructor for the United States Army. She completed the Air Education and Training Command’s instructor training and practicum and performed the duties of a National Security Agency, National Cryptologic School Adjunct Faculty member. Kim is also a member of the IT Senior Management Forum, the only national organization dedicated exclusively to fostering upper-level executive talent among African-American IT professionals.

T’was the very season in which most people slow their normal pace and scatter joy, as Emerson espoused, when I was frantically racing around the grocery store aisles.  Muttering under my breath, “I need this, and I need this, oh and this…and oh yeah this…” I quickly found my arms filled with just one item too many, and more than I had come into the store to buy. I scrambled to the checkout counter when “SPLUNK” happened. Read More