About Kim Barnett

Kim Barnett has an innate passion for exceptional service and a strong dedication to ensuring the work she provides has a positive impact on client business results. As a seasoned business development professional with over 25 years of experience, Kim has been highly successful in understanding client issues and proposing customized solutions that get results.

Kim’s strengths are generating new business through building and managing client relationships, creating long-term engagements that lead to sustainable change, and coaching clients through the design and implementation of custom solutions in talent management, leadership development and executive coaching.

Kim’s most recent corporate experience includes nearly 7 years with Korn Ferry as a Client Director, responsible for business development and client management to create custom, integrated talent management solutions to meet client needs. She demonstrated expertise in articulating and positioning the full-array of Korn Ferry leadership and talent solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market companies, consistently exceeding sales targets.

Prior to Korn Ferry she was a Client Partner at FranklinCovey, where she helped clients create sustainable behavioral change through effective leadership development solutions. Her professional history includes owning her own business providing business development services to independent consultants, along with ten years of success as Director of Client Solutions for a boutique management consulting firm specializing in large-scale strategic change and business strategy implementation.

Kim received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Irvine, and she completed MBA coursework at the University of San Diego. She is a past member of the National Human Resources Association and the Association for Talent Development, and she has held volunteer leadership positions as Facilitator and Co-Chair for several non-profit organizations and churches in Orange County.