Kim Knight Email & Phone Number

Southern California

Southern California

Human resources management consulting firm, specializing in executive search, talent acquisition/management, organization development, and executive and transition management coaching.Experienced at helping clients develop programs to become an employer of choice, retain key performers, and coach individuals in career management.

Responsible for sourcing, recruiting, and hiring managment consultants for the firm's West Coast operations, including professionals in health care, technology, financial services, forensics, and consumer products.Directed experienced personnel talent management of the firm’s management consulting practice for Northern California, including sourcing, identification, assessment, presentation, offer negotiation, and onboarding initiation. Consulted with partners, managing directors, and directors on a variety of positions from Associate to Managing Director in the fields of technology, financial services, healthcare, consumer & wholesale products, forensic services, and internal audit.Developed regional diversity recruitment and management training efforts, including targeted recruitment programs at the campus and experienced levels, development of a regionally-driven comprehensive diversity sensitivity training program, and staff coaching/counseling.

Human resources management consulting firm, specializing in executive search, talent management, organization development, and executive and transition management coaching.Created proprietary human resources consulting practice, specializing in retained executive search, organization development, outplacement, and executive coaching. Clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to municipalities. Responsible for all aspects of firm management and client assignment administration.Developed strategic alliances with complementary consulting firms and partnered on a variety of consulting assignments with organizations such as: National Water Research Institute, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, the University of La Verne, and The IMPACT Group.

Directed the Career Center for the University and all non-academic focused career management activities. The University was home to the Peter F. Drucker/Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.Completely rebuilt career services function from scratch for 2,000+ student graduate university, consisting of eight academic schools, including the Peter F. Drucker School of Management. Restructured staff and successfully operated campus-wide programs and services within budget for all years under management.Designed, developed, implemented, and monitored comprehensive job/career management workshops program. Additionally, created a proprietary in-house, alumni-based series of workshops that resulted in greater alumni/student networking, better awareness of student capabilities by alumni, and secured commitments from a significant number of firms to add the University to their list of target schools for recruitment. Resulted in U.S. News ranking the Drucker School’s recruitment efforts nineteenth nationally for U.S. business schools.Directed development of alternative recruitment vehicles for the department, including an on-line job posting system for students and alumni, weekly web-based newsletters for six of the University’s schools, and an on-campus “super session” program on career management aimed primarily at alumni career management issues and strategies.

Human resources management consulting firm, specializing in executive search, talent management, organization development, and executive and transition management coaching.Created proprietary human resources consulting practice, specializing in retained executive search, organization development, outplacement, and executive coaching. Clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to municipalities. Responsible for all aspects of firm management and client assignment administration.Developed strategic alliances with complementary consulting firms and partnered on a variety of consulting assignments with organizations such as: KPMG, RSM McGladrey, DBM, Outplacement International, and Lee Hecht Harrison.Consolidated practice into Telford, Adams & Alexander—a West coast-centered human resources management consulting firm—with four other partners and three additional offices in California from 1992 to 1997. Firm specialized in retained executive search, organization development, and management assessment. Assisted in development of firm’s marketing and business development strategy.

Mba., Finance

Organization Development minor

B.A., Economics