KIM FLORES

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Consulting services

Scaling: Operations + Culture

Unlock seamless growth without losing the soul of your culture. Kim provides precise, forward-thinking guidance to scale your operations, streamline workflows, and build thriving teams. Her approach makes innovation and engagement the foundation of your company’s expansion.

Storytelling: Branding + Marketing Strategy

Ignite your brand’s presence with storytelling that speaks directly to the heart of your audience. Kim offers sharp, strategic insights to craft narratives that break through the digital noise. Position your brand to captivate and lead while staying perfectly aligned with your market’s pulse.

Sales: Strategy + Support

Supercharge your sales force with tailored strategies that cut through complexity. Kim helps craft actionable, frictionless plans that elevate customer interactions and amplify conversion rates, delivering sustainable and powerful revenue growth.

Speaking: The Science of Happiness + Wellbeing

Kim brings the latest science of happiness to life, inspiring leaders and teams to create vibrant, resilient workplaces. Her talks transform well-being from a buzzword into a key driver of productivity and innovation. Learn how happiness isn’t just an ideal—it’s a tangible advantage that redefines workplace success.

Clients

Start ups

Kim drives startup success with transformative strategies for scaling and fostering culture. She delivers insights to streamline operations, fuel growth, and spark innovation. Her expertise in brand storytelling and sales helps startups stand out, while her coaching on the Science of Happiness builds resilient, thriving workplaces.

Investors

Kim empowers investors with sharp insights to evaluate high-potential startups. She analyzes scalability, cultural integrity, market positioning, and revenue potential, revealing true value. Her expertise in workplace well-being highlights how culture drives lasting success.

Corporates

Kim aligns corporate growth with strategies that enhance culture. She optimizes operations, fuels innovation, and boosts engagement. Her storytelling elevates branding, while tailored sales strategies and insights on the Science of Happiness foster thriving workplaces.

BOARDs

Kim supports boards with strategic insights to drive growth and governance. She clarifies scaling, culture alignment, and market positioning. Her expertise in well-being and storytelling helps boards foster resilient, thriving organizations.

Approach: G.A.I.N.

Generate

Ignite Innovation: Kim fuels ideas by generating and shaping powerful concepts that align with your vision. This step frees creativity and sets the stage for transformative growth.

ALIGN

Strategic Blueprint: Kim crafts a precise and impactful plan, aligning your resources and strategies to turn ideas into actionable objectives. This strategic blueprint ensures clear direction and measurable success.

IMPlement

Execute with Precision: Kim drives flawless execution by meticulously implementing your plan. She ensures that every strategy is activated effectively, optimizing processes and campaigns for maximum impact.

Navigate

Enhance and Evolve: Kim navigates through performance insights, enhancing and evolving strategies to adapt and thrive. This step focuses on continuous improvement, ensuring sustained growth and innovation.

GAIN INSIGHTS

  • "Kim was extremely supportive when we rebranded, working extra hours to ensure I understood the rebranding process and had all the tools needed. She created a document clarifying the value proposition, services, customer base, and other critical aspects before making any changes. Her frameworks were fundamental to other company areas, including marketing, strategic communications, and engagement with customers, investors, and partners." TERYN WOLFE - CEO NEXTURE BIO

  • "Kim executed a complete rebrand with a team of creatives, production, and post-production on a very tight turnaround. The final product and experience were exceptional. I trust her expertise in storytelling, branding, and producing across digital platforms to help further our brands." PAM WONG-CREATIVE OPS-FOSSIL GROUP

  • ""A force of nature, Kim Flores is the first person I turn to when I need a fresh perspective. She brings a unique mix of heart and mind to every endeavor, helping to develop strategies that consider love and logic. A teacher, producer, creative, and strategist – Kim is more than the sum of her experience. She’s a connector of invisible dots, finding pathways to success each time.” DIANE MCGHEE - AVP of STRATEGIC COMMS AND OUTREACH UTSW

  • "Kim has a unique ability to paint the picture of how internal branding and culture will seep through to the end products delivered to their clients. She continued to demonstrate her ability to take a business owner's vision and make it a reality." LAURA DAVIS - CEO IGNITE HR

  • "Kim is a rare, fearless unicorn with both a strong business and creative mind, plus Yoda's emotional intelligence and wisdom. She leads with strategy and human connection, always at the forefront of focus. If I were building a dream team, I’d want Kim at my side, leading the charge." JOEY CADE - CEO OF EASTSIDE PRODUCTIONS

  • "Kim's approach to creating a healthy work culture is so holistic that you can’t help but adopt her strategies into your everyday life, which, in turn, helps create a more balanced emotional ecosystem at the office. And when she implements her enthusiastically empowering approach with clients, they see a lasting change in the way they conduct business, cultivate relationships and tackle challenges." KRISTA McCRIMMON-GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR-FIREHOUSE

  • "Kim's superpower is an intrinsic understanding of human behavior and how collaborative, inclusive environments are a chemistry lab for innovation: with so many more elements at our disposal, it's easier to create something special." PABLO AMPUERO - HEAD OF COPY - E2OPEN

  • “Kim never does anything halfway. No matter how challenging a situation, Kim’s mantra is always, “Let’s figure it out.” And she always does. Her fearlessness, intuition, and sheer grit position her as a formidable business and brand strategist. She channels her curiosity and passion to create work that truly connects with people and drives real results that are always backed by data and insights." CAROLINE COOK-SR. GLOBAL INTEGRATED MARKETING SPECIALIST CONTENT AND CREATIVE OPS- FOSSIL GROUP

  • "Kim facilitates a culture of candor that helps teams tackle tough issues in a respectful, and even loving, way. It’s been a true gift to know, work with, and learn from her." SARAH ECK - MANAGER, FIELD MARKETING - CORNERSTONE ONDEMAND

about Kim

Kim's responsibilities have a significant impact on VC and businesses. She manages platform and investor relations, coaches founders on business strategy and company culture, and identifies and addresses bottlenecks. Her role also involves enhancing company differentiation through messaging, story, and branding, amplifying company news via various media channels, and assisting with hires, fractional hires, and strategic partnerships. Additionally, she is in strategic planning and resource identification for product and service sales for portfolio companies.

Kim Flores brings a unique perspective to her role, with a background in film/television marketing and advertising. Her twenty-plus years of experience in the advertising, marketing, and film industry, collaborating with start-ups and global companies as a commercial director, such as Frito Lay, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, Southwest Airlines, Reliant Energy, Nickelodeon, and Time Warner, set her apart. This experience in an industry that parallels the VC industry, requiring product creation, investor attraction, and iterative improvement for success, sets her apart.

Kim has a BA in Communications from Ashford University, Radio, Television, Film, and Journalism from the University of North Texas, and is Certified in Digital Marketing, Planning, and analytics from Columbia Business School. Additionally, Kim studied the Science of well-being under cognitive scientist Dr. Laurie Renee Santos at Yale University and received training as a Chief Happiness Officer with Denmark’s Happiness Expert and global thought leader Alexander Kjerulf. She leads sessions and speaks on the ROI of happiness for brands, startups, and individuals, with recent participation in a UN panel on Happiness and Well-being in Cities and Communities.

 

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