Kymme Lightfoot – Senior Consultant

The Executive Edge

Role

With over 22 years in corporate America in both line and leadership roles, Kymme has a solid understanding of what it takes to achieve business results. Kymme’s clients recognize her as a trusted partner and accomplished leader coaching Fortune 500 clients as well as non-profit executives. Within those organizations, Kymme has worked with all levels of leaders from line supervisors to senior executives. Through a partnering approach, Kymme creates strong relationships and innovative solutions that result in moving her clients forward to achieve their goals.

Experience and Expertise

Kymme Lightfoot brings a wealth of experience and a passion for individual growth drawn from her 20+ year career in the learning and development field.  Recognized as an accomplished partner to the business, Kymme has consulted with and coached senior leadership both in the business and human resources arenas. Kymme excels at working with individuals and teams to enhance their talent which enables them to spearhead initiatives that drive and improve business results.  Kymme specializes in human performance improvement and has a broad range of experience and success including:

  • Coaching high potential professionals and senior leaders to initiate new strategies that stretch their strengths to achieve the desired business results
  • Partnering with business leaders to create strategy
  • Creating and facilitating experiential learning including global webinars
  • Executive and high potential coaching
  • Implementing individual and team productivity solutions
  • Strategy execution

Throughout her corporate career, with such companies as Chicago Tribune, Motorola, Hewitt Associates and Abbott Laboratories, Kymme has held various leadership positions in learning and development, and Human Resources. A results-driven and astute business person, Kymme's work approach leverages a strong partnership with her clients; and while her work is focused on achieving her client’s business objectives, she is committed to the collaborative nature of the consulting relationship

Kymme brings considerable breadth and depth to the discipline of improving individual and team productivity. She has taken her productivity work to new heights, developing it into an elective course for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Night and Weekend MBA programs.

Client Quotes

  • “Working with Kymme Lightfoot has been an absolute joy.  She is a true professional and demonstrates a high level of competence and enthusiasm in the field of Learning and Development.  Kymme’s creativity and innovation have allowed us to create a “State of the Art” Training School which will have a significant impact on our business.  She has related well with our business partners and has gained their trust and respect.” - National Training Manager, Simms Metal Management
  • “I've had the pleasure of working with Kymme Lightfoot in a number of professional capacities over the past year.  When our coaching started, Kymme was prepared and thorough.  She took the time to understand the day-to-day challenges of my business and she was instrumental in helping me clarify my meaningful objectives.  There was enough variety in Kymme's presentation and tools that I felt engaged and energized throughout our coaching session even though I was on a phone, at my desk, in front of my computer.  I can only imagine how powerful and impactful her live coaching sessions must be!” - Recruiting and Business Development, Emerson Human Capital
  • “Kymme offers the business savvy and emotional intelligence that is needed for any individual or organization to move forward.  Her ability to integrate head and heart is a distinctive that is paramount in today’s world with so many needing to increase their accountability and work/life balance.  Anyone that has the opportunity to work with Kymme will immediately begin to discover and embrace the shifts needed for effective change.” - Randy Pierce, Author, Consultant, Coach, Transforming Solutions

Professional Certifications

  • The Executive Edge®: The Coaching AdvantEdge™
  • Center for Creative Leadership® (CCL): Benchmarks® Executive 360 Assessment Tools®
  • Personnel Decisions International (PDI): The Profilor 360 Assessment Tool®
  • Development Dimensions International (DDI): Interaction Management
  • DISC
  • Blessing White: Managing Personal Growth
  • Achieve Global: Achieving Stellar Service Series
  • McGhee Productivity Solutions: Take Back Your Life! Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized

Education and Professional Associations

Kymme holds a B.S. and M.A. from The Ohio State University. She is a member of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce as well as the Society of Human Resource Professionals (SHRP).

More About Kymme

Kymme, her husband and daughters live and play in the Chicago northwest suburbs and they love getting away to visit family in Florida!

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/