Keynotes & Speaking
Real experience. Fresh perspectives. Meaningful action.
Kimberly Sharp brings more than 25 years of corporate leadership and consulting experience, executive insight, and a deeply human perspective to conversations about leadership, change, identity, and transformation.
From corporate conferences and leadership summits to women's events and community gatherings, her presentations challenge assumptions, spark meaningful conversations, and equip audiences with practical insights they can put to work.
Conversations That Move People Forward
Different audiences. Shared human experiences. Meaningful conversations.
Every audience brings its own experiences, questions, and challenges. Kimberly's presentations draw on executive experience, research, personal stories, and practical frameworks to connect meaningful ideas with real-world action.
Personal Growth & Women's Experiences
Stories and insights exploring identity, courage, resilience, and the process of becoming.
The Courage to Become:
A Journey from Survival to Self-Discovery
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
What does it take to become the person you were always meant to be when life has repeatedly challenged everything you believed about yourself?
In her most personal presentation, Kimberly shares the defining experiences that shaped her journey from survival and achievement to self-discovery, connection, and purpose.
Through stories of adversity, unexpected opportunities, professional success, and profound personal change, she explores how courage takes many forms. Sometimes it means fighting for yourself. Sometimes it means allowing yourself to be vulnerable, accepting support, or choosing an entirely new direction.
At its heart, this is a story about discovering that our experiences do not have to define our limitations. They can deepen our understanding of ourselves, strengthen our connections with others, and help us discover a purpose greater than our circumstances.
Kimberly closes with Paula Fox's Courage Does Not Always Roar, a reflection on the quiet strength that carries us through life's most difficult moments.
Key Themes: Courage, self-discovery, resilience, vulnerability, authentic leadership, and finding purpose.
The Identity Blur™:
Finding Yourself in the Middle of Everything
Somewhere between careers, relationships, family responsibilities, and life's many transitions, women can lose sight of who they are beyond the roles they've carried.
Kimberly explores the Identity Blur™, a period when the life you've built no longer fully reflects the person you're becoming. Through self-discovery, reflection, and Microbravery™, audiences discover ways to reconnect with their values, strengthen self-trust, and make meaningful choices without starting their lives over.
Key Themes: Midlife identity, reinvention, self-trust, personal growth, and Microbravery™.
Leadership & Organizational Transformation
Practical perspectives on leading people, navigating pressure, and reimagining organizations through change.
Steady Leadership Under Pressure:
Know Yourself. Meet Your People. Build What Holds.
Sustained pressure changes how people think, respond, and make decisions. When that pressure goes unrecognized and unprocessed, the consequences ripple across teams, affecting engagement, adaptability, learning, and innovation.
Drawing on executive experience and research into the effects of organizational strain, Kimberly explores why behaviors that appear to be resistance or disengagement may reflect something happening beneath the surface. She introduces trauma-informed leadership as a practical approach to recognizing these dynamics and responding with greater awareness and intention.
Through OakRoot's Human Operating System, audiences explore three interconnected practices: understanding their own patterns under pressure, meeting people where they are, and building the structures and agreements that help teams remain steady through uncertainty and change.
Key Themes: Trauma-informed leadership, unprocessed strain, self-regulation, relational intelligence, and organizational resilience.
Beyond the Stack:
The Human Operating System in the Age of AI
As artificial intelligence transforms how work gets done, organizations face a challenge that extends far beyond technology adoption. Jobs are changing, organizational structures are shifting, and the role of human expertise, judgment, and accountability is being fundamentally reconsidered.
Drawing on her experience leading enterprise technology transformations and organizational change, Kimberly challenges conventional assumptions about AI-driven workforce disruption. She explores the emerging shift from humans working within automated processes to humans directing, verifying, and taking responsibility for increasingly autonomous systems.
Through the lens of organizational redesign and OakRoot's Human Operating System, audiences examine how leaders can strengthen human judgment, develop future talent, address the hidden costs of sustained disruption, and build organizations where people and AI work together effectively.
Key Themes: AI and labor transformation, organizational redesign, human judgment and verification, leadership through disruption, and the Human Operating System.
Meet Kimberly Sharp
Executive experience. Human-centered insights. A distinctive voice on transformation
Kimberly Sharp is an executive, speaker, mentor-coach, and facilitator with more than 25 years of corporate leadership and consulting experience, including over a decade guiding leaders and organizations through transformation.
A former Managing Partner and Chief People Officer, she brings firsthand experience leading through organizational growth, technology change, and the complexity of human relationships at work.
As founder of OakRoot Human Experience (HX), Kimberly brings together professional expertise, practical frameworks, and personal experience to help audiences understand themselves, strengthen connections, and navigate change with greater intention.
Her work is rooted in a simple belief: people grow from the inside out, and they grow further together.
Speaking Engagements
Different formats. Meaningful conversations. Lasting impact.
From conference mainstages to intimate leadership conversations, Kimberly brings executive experience, human-centered insights, and practical perspectives to a variety of speaking and engagement formats.
Keynotes & Featured Presentations
Thought-provoking presentations that combine research, lived experience, and practical frameworks to challenge assumptions, introduce new perspectives, and inspire meaningful action.
Panels & Interviews
Candid, engaging conversations that draw on Kimberly's executive leadership experience and her perspectives on organizational transformation, leadership, identity, and personal growth. Available for moderated panels, fireside chats, and podcast or media interviews.
Breakout Sessions & Workshops
Interactive experiences that move beyond presentation into discussion, reflection, and application. Designed for conference breakouts, leadership gatherings, and smaller groups seeking deeper engagement with a specific topic.
Every engagement is tailored to the audience, event objectives, and format. In-person, virtual, and hybrid options are available.