Kim gets fired up about work that draws from different disciplines to solve complex business challenges. Just as few meaty problems reside entirely within one organizational silo, she finds that the most elegant solutions often come from multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary interventions.

Before joining Bonfire, Kim was a senior consultant at The Gallup Organization, where she helped her clients use survey research to understand and manage the emotional economics of their companies. She led projects to measure employee and customer engagement, designing education and change initiatives based on the findings. Kim also advised clients on talent-based hiring and performance development.

She spent the early years of her career in hotel sales and marketing, thriving on interaction with a broad spectrum of customers. She loved the challenge of engaging diverse teams of employees around the unique needs of each customer group, and of managing many variables to satisfy just a few straightforward expectations. A lifelong writer, Kim gravitated toward communications and soon became the corporate director of PR and marketing communications.

Kim went on to lead marketing for a publicly traded restaurant corporation and, later, the U.S. arm of a Hong Kong-based hotel company. Each assignment provided generous opportunities to learn from great strategists and talented designers--and to travel and eat very well, too.

In the mid-90's, Kim joined KPMG's Information, Communication and Entertainment practice, allowing her to rub shoulders with innovators from Austin to Silicon Valley at the height of excitement about the Internet and digital convergence.

When she's not working, Kim spends most of her time and all of her money on travel. Her international adventures feed her ideation and always return her to San Francisco energized to invent something new.