Kim Ramsey - President

The Executive Edge

Role

Kim Ramsey is the President of The Executive Edge®, Inc., a niche consulting firm that specializes in helping its clients craft business strategy to align their organization’s structures, executives, human capital, and people practices to achieve improved bottom-line performance. She has over 25 years of experience in such areas as strategic planning, executive coaching, change management, high potential leadership development, organizational design, 360 feedback, mentoring, team development, and design of performance management systems among others. As President of The Executive Edge, Kim oversees the firm’s operations and routinely works with its clients, which include both Fortune 500 and mid-market companies, and their executive teams to design and implement organizational and leadership development initiatives resulting in tangible business improvements.

Experience and Expertise

Prior to founding The Executive Edge®, Kim led Executive and Leadership Development at the AT&T/Ameritech Institute, where she was responsible for coaching and developing the corporation’s most senior executives (top 1%) across North America. She received national recognition by the Corporate Leadership Council (CLC), Linkage Inc., the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD), and the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) for her “best practices in developing & retaining high potential talent”. She also led the Executive and Organizational Development for The Nielsen Company, North America as well as the Human Resources at SONY’s Consumer Electronics Group for the Midwest Region and a start-up operation in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She has held additional leadership positions at Chicago Tribune Company overseeing the executive, leadership and organizational development efforts for 26 business units across the country as well as progressive leadership positions at Harris Corporation.

Kim specializes in managing large-scale organizational change. She understands the challenges and complexities of driving change from navigating the politics and driving accountability, to stakeholdering and measuring results in order to achieve organizational success. Kim’s key areas of expertise include:

  • Strategic planning at the corporation, business unit, and departmental levels (Design and facilitation)
  • Executive and high-potential coaching
  • Accelerated leadership development strategy design and full-scale implementation
  • Deploying large scale organizational learning and change initiatives
  • Leadership development strategy and total curriculum design

Kim has worked with numerous clients including RR Donnelley, The Nielsen Company, McDonald’s, DeVry, Sara Lee, Tribune Company, AT&T, Equity Office Properties, Discover Card, Sears Roebuck, University Health Systems, Forsythe Technology, Pepsi, SecurityLink, Sterling Partners Private Equity, Crowell & Moring, CertainTeed, Bel Brands USA, Principal Financial Group, United Airlines, Harris Bank, Ross Stores, Bank of Montreal, Publicis Groupe, and more.

Kim has presented at conferences including the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC), the Leadership Development Congress (LDC), the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), Linkage, the American Press Institute (API), Women in Communication, Best Practices HRD Consortium, Women in Wireless, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and the Midwest Training Conference.

Client Quotes

  • “The Executive Edge is probably one of the best executive coaching firms I have worked with because of Kim’s expertise, her organization skills, and her quantitative analysis skills. Secondly, because of Kim’s energy level herself, the ideals, the efficiency, and the quality that she brings to the table. And lastly, because of the outcomes that ultimately happen with the coaching she gives you.” – VP & Managing Director, Regional Financial Institution
  • “I selected The Executive Edge for a couple of reasons. I had a long history with them, I used them in my past so I saw and was able to recognize the quality of the work that Kim and her team produce for the organization. We really needed to have someone who we felt was a partner to the organization and really understands our business.” – Director of Human Resources, Mid-Market Consumer Products Company
  • “Every project I’ve worked with (The Executive Edge) on has a very clearly articulated goal and an agreement between what I am trying to accomplish and what they can offer so that there is always perfect clarity. And the disciplined approach with timetables, deadlines, and really good project components make a big difference.” – Senior Director of Organizational Effectiveness, National Higher Education Company

Honors and Awards

In August, 2005, Kim was admitted into the Manchester “Who’s Who in America” based on accomplishments in her field. She was recognized for “Superior Leadership” from the Ameritech Institute and was awarded Ameritech’s Small Business Unit’s “President’s Award” for launching a corporation-wide strategy for developing leaders of the business. Kim was also recognized by Training Today Magazine for best practices in “Measuring the Impact of Superstar Development”.

Professional Certifications

  • Center for Creative Leadership: Benchmarks Executive 360 Assessment Tools® and Executive Dimensions
  • Personnel Decisions International: The Profilor 360 Assessment Tool
  • The Forté® Institute: Forté® Assessment Process
  • The Executive Edge®: The Coaching AdvantEdge™
  • The Executive Edge®: Strategic Planning for Competitive AdvantEdge™
  • The Executive Edge®: Organizational Design AdvantEdge
  • The Executive Edge®: Team Building AdvantEdge™
  • Development Dimensions International: Interaction Management
  • Development Dimensions International: Behavioral Based Selection
  • Situational Leadership by Dr. Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard
  • Lominger Career Architect
  • Achieve Global: Quality Service Skills, Professional Selling Skills, Value Added Selling

Education and Professional Associations

Kim holds a Master’s degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

She has served on numerous boards including the Midwest Training Conference board for five consecutive years as well as elected positions in the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and Toastmasters International. She is a current member of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the Organizational Development Network (ODN), the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago (HRMAC) and is a founding member of the Chicagoland Human Resources Consortium.

More About Kim

Kim and her family live in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. They enjoy boating, waterskiing, snow skiing, and international travel.

Learn More

For additional information about The Executive Edge®, please contact us at:
Phone: 1.630.404.2256
Email: info@theexecutiveedge.net
Web: http://www.theexecutiveedge.net/