94: Motivating Executive Leadership with Kimberly Gerber

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we have the great pleasure of speaking to Kimberly Gerber, the Founder and CEO of Excelerate. Kimberly has had a fantastic corporate career! She started with Starbucks and became a COO before the age of 32. Twenty years ago, she started a company that focuses on executive leadership. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, she talks to us about the great resignation, how to motivate your team and the kind of competence and grit, and the executive presence people need to get promoted to executive leadership. She also shares five leaps senior leaders need to make when going up to the executive level. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope you enjoy our engaging and informative conversation with Kimberly today!</span></p> <p><strong>Kimberly Gerber’s bio</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the Founder and CEO of Excelerate, Kimberly Gerber has developed a transformational coaching process that combines high-touch experiences with cutting-edge science and technology to deliver programs that accelerate the thinking, behavior, and results of our clients and the companies they lead. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before founding Excelerate in 2002, Kimberly was a Fortune 100 executive herself. She understands the unique responsibilities that come at the executive level and has created programs like the Executive Accelerator to help executives think strategically, elevate their presence, finesse their communication, achieve their goals and provide sustainable business results in a productive environment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kimberly has achieved an unparalleled 100% client rehire rate and has transformed over 1,600 leaders across over 100 companies, including Verizon, Allergan, Whirlpool, USC, Revance, KPMG, Biogen, UCLA, Wescom, and more.</span></p> <p><strong>An early taste of leadership at the highest level</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kimberly had some unique o