Winning today requires the best leadership, teamwork, and performance.

Who We Serve

Organizations

Every corporation has a different talent management process or leadership development needs. Action architects can partner with you to identify the need and deliver the right-sized action plan for results. We offer executive coaching, talent consulting, and fractional (part-time or contract) engagement.


Leaders

The core of my practice is working with senior and emerging senior leaders to accelerate their leadership impact. 


Individuals

Are you stuck? Not making progress or running into the same roadblocks? We can help you define your goals, gain clarity on your purpose, and take effective action to get the results you want faster.

Our Services

  • Executive coaching that delivers leadership impact. Engagements can include 360 feedback, manager alignment, and will be contracted in three, six and nine month engagements to ensure a accountability to all parties involved.

  • Do you have a successor thats not ready yet? A new to role leader that needs help with their team? We can help with a combination of assessment, development planning and coaching.

  • In today's rapidly changing world, senior teams change due to re-structure or simply a leader leaving. Such changes often disrupt teamwork and collaboration.

  • Your organization may be evaluating a change to its performance management or goal-setting process. We can help you evaluate options, co-design with the business, and implement a process that delivers high performance and employee engagement.

  • Do you have challenges moving succession planning or talent reviews into pragmatic and accountable development impact? We can help you delivery a simple process that delivers results, not just powerpoint.

  • Your organization might need executive-level, in-house talent and/or support on a part-time basis, known as a "fractional" role. Often, certain inflection points can make this a pressing need. For example, unanticipated staffing gaps, re-organizations, planned transformations, bandwidth or skills gaps, budget restraints, and the need for talent consulting expertise that's affordable. The use of a fractional talent and development executive allows for the rapid development of a plan to successfully lead you through your inflection. We can also aid through implementation,  ensuring your chosen strategy leads to smooth execution.

Meet Kim Newkirk

Kim Newkirk is an accomplished senior executive, consultant, and ICF-certified executive coach. She has a proven track record of transforming talent management and learning organizations across various industries – from High Tech to Finance and Real Estate. Most recently, Kim was the SVP and Chief Talent and Learning Officer for Liberty Mutual Insurance. In this role, she was responsible for setting the enterprise strategy to develop Liberty’s talent, from new employees to the C-Suite. Kim has broad talent development expertise, including but not limited to leadership development, succession and pipeline planning, selection, assessments, and skill development. Kim is passionate about cultivating strong business partnerships, driving for stronger diversity, equity, and inclusion, and improving the culture supporting business strategy and results.

Before Liberty Mutual, Kim served in various talent, learning, HR, and finance business partner roles at Intel Corporation. She served as Head of Executive Development, where she transformed the VP selection process, built the executive development function, and partnered with multiple executive teams to increase teamwork and performance. Kim has led two learning and development turnarounds to increase business impact and lower costs. Prior to her roles in COE’s, Kim spend 8 years as a valued HR Business Partner.


Education

  • George Washington University, MBA in Finance

  • Emory University, BA in Political Science

Credentials

  • ICF ACC certification 2024

  • Columbia University, Executive Coaching Certificate (In process)

  • Accreditation in the Fundamentals of NeuroLeadership, NeuroLeadership Institute 2017

  • Brain-Based Coaching Certificate, NeuroLeadership Institute, 2016