Kimberly Harden

Dr. Kimberly Harden is an award-winning educator, DEI consultant, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator. She advises corporate, nonprofit, and academic leaders on their recruitment, hiring, retention, and promotion strategies. She also helps organizations shift from a traditional diversity and inclusion model to a model that emphasizes diversity, equity, belonging, interpersonal communication, and talent management (DEBIT Training™). As the first and only African American female professor in the Department of Communication at Seattle University, Kimberly agrees with Aristotle’s assertion that “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” She is passionate about diversity, justice, leadership, collaboration, care, and transformation. In 2020, Kimberly launched the Dream. Plan. Do.™ Scholarship with the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle and the B & G Harden Apprentice Scholarship with ANEW.