Ep 36: Courage, Core, and Overcoming Stereotypes

In this episode of #OYVPodcast, Sahar Paz interviews Kimberly Lee Minor, CEO, and CMO of Bumbershoot, to get her to take on Diversity Equity and Inclusion, what personal branding has to do with DEI, and why we need to know who we are at the CORE.  Key takeaways are: 

Hello GenX! How leadership is changing, and how it’s not. 

Echo chambers on social media make conversations harder. 

Reframing hard conversations to honest conversations. 

Cognitive bias, what it has to do with you, your leadership, and your personal brand. 

MEET MY GUEST: 

An award-winning executive with an impeccable record of building brands, finding the uncut diamonds, and creating product-based stories. Kimberly is a customer-focused brand advocate and marketer with expertise in building seamless, cross-functional life cycle product processes, digital to brick and mortar customer experiences, as well as recruitment, engagement, and retention enhancements. 

Kimberly leveraged her years of leadership experience to create her company, Bumbershoot, a boutique consulting firm that provides cultural and market insights to help business leaders strategically reposition their cultures for collaboration and inclusivity to provide a welcoming and empowering community for career acceleration of women and people of color; creates content and builds networks for support, enrichment, and promotion of niche communities. 

She is an empowering mentor and purpose-centric business leader. 

Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and has completed coursework towards her MBA at Drexel University.  She holds an executive certificate in Leadership and Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She and her husband have 2 sons and live in New Albany, OH.

CONNECT WITH SAHAR + GUESTS

@SaharPaz on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Clubhouse | Connect with Kimberly Lee Minor on Instagram and LinkedIn.