Member since July 2026
Kimberly Moore is an entrepreneur and innovation leader who speaks about the realities of leading when the answers are unclear. As the founder and CEO of Go Together, Kimberly spent nearly a decade building technology solutions designed to solve complex K12 transportation and community challenges while navigating the unpredictable realities of entrepreneurship—market shifts, funding constraints, strategic pivots, and the difficult decisions that determine whether an idea evolves or ends.
Her work has taught her that leadership is not about having certainty; it is about developing the clarity, courage, and adaptability to move forward when certainty is unavailable. Kimberly shares honest lessons from the founder’s journey to help leaders rethink resilience, embrace necessary change, and make better decisions in seasons of ambiguity.
I've been misunderstood most of my life. I show up with presence yet with a calm spirit. Most do not associate with being relentless or purposed-driven. But I am. I want to help people, especially college students, get unboxed from the perceptions others, even they have of themselves so that they can do the great things they see in their mind's eye or join in with others in building something great.
This is personal....Transformation, doing your work, and be your best self are all buzzwords that now our brains don't even process being curious or interesting. We've heard them so much. People build brands on these words. I get it.
Brene Brown said it well, citing Roosevelt's The Man in the Arena quote. No one really cares if you yourself have not been in the arena. My personal passion is to tell the truth about what it really looks like and the insights available to us if we are truly open.
Areas of life I've been invited to share about my time in the arena and would love to share with your audiences - getting out of my own way personal constructs that limit me, taking ownership for what's happening in my life and resist (it's hard) blaming people or circumstances, how who we are impacts all relationships (intimate and professional) and to feel and be more alive you have to lose somethings.
Investing in yourself and others - Since I can remember I've always invested in myself. Looking back it's because I was misunderstood and people didn't know what made me tick so I have to figure that out myself by reading and asking questions from teachers, parents' friends and even perfect strangers. Literally since I was 9. Remember the middle name story? Well I asked the librarian at my school how you can a middle name. She taught me how to research it, understand it and take action. Left an indelible impression. Investing in myself, and choosing myself is my lifelong journey. When I understood what I did was not normal and others wanted to know how to do the same, I started investing in others. I found success professionally investing the people on our teams by first revealing to them what's great about who they are in ways they had never heard before, giving the tools and opening the doors they needed to see their success.
Relationships with men - I have four brothers and had an amazing Dad. My experiences with them made it very easy for me to work and be in male dominated environments. I learned to be strong from my brothers and Dad. I also learned what it's like to be loved by a man from my brothers and Dad. There's what I think an unique approach I have found successful in relating to men professionally and personally that I absolutely love sharing with women. I want them to experience the ah-ha moments that ignite the woman in them even professionally and resist conforming to male dominated ways of being.
It started with not having a middle name. Really. At 8 and in the 2nd grade, every student said their full name at roll call. I didn't have a middle name like everyone else. Like most children I didn't want to be different so I started asking my parents if I could get a middle name. It took 12 months of asking the question in various ways at dinner for them to relent and say yes. Something inside was ignited. The ability to create something out of nothing. A skill needed by leaders, entrepreneurs, and people who want a new life and make impact. Back to my middle name. In the 3rd grade, I stood before a judge and received my new name, birth certificate and the greatest feeling of knowing I did it. This skill and the associated ability to be relentless in the face of it all has opened doors of opportunity, allowed me to meet and work with people who would ordinarily be difficult connect with, and to build organizations and now a company that delivers impact.
From a military family, I'm the oldest daughter in a family of six 4 brothers and a younger sister who was the darling of the family. Misunderstood from an early age yet loved deeply by my Dad, I discovered the superpowers of reading, creating something from nothing, the power of asking questions, and getting support. Every one of these superpowers is the DNA for being the CEO I am today.
You don't have to own a business to think like an entrepreneur. Organizations thrive when people at every level take ownership, solve problems proactively, and embrace calculated risk. Kimberly draws on her experience as an intrapreneur at Verizon Wireless, which took her from Account Manager to Executive Director, to challenge audiences to adopt the mindset that founders use every day to navigate complexity, create value, and lead with initiative—even within large organizations.
The hardest part of leadership isn't developing a vision—it's staying committed when progress is slower, harder, and less predictable than expected. Kimberly shares lessons from navigating long seasons of uncertainty while continuing to make thoughtful, mission-driven decisions. Audiences gain practical strategies for maintaining clarity, confidence, and momentum when the destination is certain but the path keeps changing.
Some of the biggest opportunities come from solving problems that most people have learned to accept. Kimberly shares how identifying overlooked challenges led to building innovative solutions at the intersection of technology, transportation, and education. This session encourages audiences to see problems differently, think beyond conventional solutions, and uncover opportunities hidden in plain sight.
Building a business has a way of exposing every leadership strength—and every blind spot. Kimberly takes audiences behind the polished success stories to examine the realities of leading through financial uncertainty, changing markets, difficult setbacks, and unexpected opportunities. This session offers honest insights that help leaders become more adaptable, self-aware, and resilient regardless of their industry.
We celebrate perseverance, but rarely talk about the wisdom of changing course. In this candid session, Kimberly shares the difficult decisions every leader eventually faces: when to keep investing, when to rethink strategy, and how to separate passion from attachment. Participants learn a practical framework for making courageous decisions in uncertain environments.
Innovation isn't just about creating something new—it's about having the discipline to recognize when your original assumptions no longer fit reality. Drawing from nearly a decade of building and evolving a technology company, Kimberly explores why some organizations cling to outdated ideas while others adapt and thrive. Audiences leave with practical tools for recognizing when to persist, when to pivot, and how to lead innovation without losing sight of the mission.
Belinda Donavant, Senior Director - Product Engineering
Ms. Kimberly Moore, founder and CEO of Go Together, Inc., was the opening keynote speaker for our 2021 Engineers Week. We at Canon Virginia, Inc. love to celebrate the contributions of our engineers, and Engineers Week is a big event in our company. Our theme for 2021 was Art+Engineering, and WOW! Ms. Moore hit it out of the park!
Ms. Moore is a great storyteller! I loved her example that engineering is a bridge between science and fiction, making the unseen become seen. She motivated us with anecdotes of starting her company, Go Together, Inc., from the perspective of the visionary and founder. She shared the experiences of recognizing a gap in the community, forming a vision of a solution, and working tirelessly toward it. She shared her struggles along the way, and also her team’s flexibility to modify the pathway to her ultimate vision as she and her team recognized “opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in a lifetime of opportunity.”
Finally, she inspired us! She encouraged our engineers to put their fingerprints on their work, and recognize their creations will live beyond the time of development. “When you create the magic of bridging the gap between science and fiction, don’t leave out the really important act of celebration.” My favorite “nugget” from her presentation was that she “looks for a team that can understand my crazies!” That really speaks to the innovative and creative environment we encourage at Canon Virginia, Inc. Wonderful solutions will spark from “crazy” ideas as diverse teams of engineers, designers, technicians, operators, planners, analysts and so many others work together to create solutions to benefit our community and our world.
Canon CVI is the manufacturer for Canon’s office and consumer products. Invited as Keynote Speaker for the 2021 Engineering Conference. This year's theme is Art+Engineering.
My Talk -"Art + Engineering – The Bridge between Science and Fiction and Your Fingerprint as Your Legacy"
Art is an idea and engineering is the implementation of that idea, one is complete without the other. Science Fiction is the ability to use the power of science and the imagination of idea to increase the possibilities of what can be. As engineers their fingerprint on the innovation is the legacy their work creates. We explored how and why it’s both exciting and challenging to be the bridge to innovation through knowing their creative strength, untapped potential and the best collaborator to work with.
Provided my perspective on dating after 50, using dating apps and the gymnastics to get to a live conversation or date.
Being all in as a leader is brave and courageous. It also takes a deep sense of self awareness. This talk is about 3 areas of emotional intelligence and leadership:
Self Awareness
Awareness of Others
Importance of Context and Relationships.
Done at the University of Florida for the Heavner School of Business, this talk provided opportunities for students to learn what each area is and how important is for leaders as well as apply their learning through creative group and individual experiments. Takeaways include how your own self awareness affects the team and their success, the power of eye contact in developing empathy of others, skills needed to access the dynamics in a room and relationships.
As a recent speaker at Conference on World Affairs, finally I had the opportunity to speak on this topic that captured me at a very difficult time in my life. I share the 7 principals the person who wants to have this conversation embraces during the conversation. Mine was with my former husband in the midst of an imploding marriage. I got better, the marriage didn't. It's part of my DNA now and has fueled me during my friendships, family and business relationships.
From an early age the box starts getting for us lovingly and unknowingly. “You’d be good at....” “You should go to this school” “You’re a X”. Whether it is, it subconsciously gets internalized and we take it from there and form a thought, participate in activities, etc. Getting Unboxed is a fun and exploration interactive talk to see Just who you could be if you get out of the box. Using a few cools steps used during Startup Weekend, we’ll take 10 minutes to get some insights the audience to take to start Getting Unboxed!
As amazing and adventurous as my life has been it’s mostly started with me being relectuant to do something. Even being the entrepreneur i am today. Those who know do not believe me based on how they have watched my life. This talk is a 6 min snapshot to how being reluctant has led to adventure.
It started with not having a middle name. Really. At 8 and in the 2nd grade, every student said their full name at roll call. I didn't have a middle name like everyone else. Like most children I didn't want to be different so I started asking my parents if I could get a middle name. It took 12 months of asking the question in various ways at dinner for them to relent and say yes. Something inside was ignited. The ability to create something out of nothing. A skill needed by leaders, entrepreneurs, and people who want a new life and make impact. Back to my middle name. In the 3rd grade, I stood before a judge and received my new name, birth certificate and the greatest feeling of knowing I did it. This skill and the associated ability to be relentless in the face of it all has opened doors of opportunity, allowed me to meet and work with people who would ordinarily be difficult connect with, and to build organizations and now a company that delivers impact.
From a military family, I'm the oldest daughter in a family of six 4 brothers and a younger sister who was the darling of the family. Misunderstood from an early age yet loved deeply by my Dad, I discovered the superpowers of reading, creating something from nothing, the power of asking questions, and getting support. Every one of these superpowers is the DNA for being the CEO I am today.
You don't have to own a business to think like an entrepreneur. Organizations thrive when people at every level take ownership, solve problems proactively, and embrace calculated risk. Kimberly draws on her experience as an intrapreneur at Verizon Wireless, which took her from Account Manager to Executive Director, to challenge audiences to adopt the mindset that founders use every day to navigate complexity, create value, and lead with initiative—even within large organizations.
The hardest part of leadership isn't developing a vision—it's staying committed when progress is slower, harder, and less predictable than expected. Kimberly shares lessons from navigating long seasons of uncertainty while continuing to make thoughtful, mission-driven decisions. Audiences gain practical strategies for maintaining clarity, confidence, and momentum when the destination is certain but the path keeps changing.
Some of the biggest opportunities come from solving problems that most people have learned to accept. Kimberly shares how identifying overlooked challenges led to building innovative solutions at the intersection of technology, transportation, and education. This session encourages audiences to see problems differently, think beyond conventional solutions, and uncover opportunities hidden in plain sight.
Building a business has a way of exposing every leadership strength—and every blind spot. Kimberly takes audiences behind the polished success stories to examine the realities of leading through financial uncertainty, changing markets, difficult setbacks, and unexpected opportunities. This session offers honest insights that help leaders become more adaptable, self-aware, and resilient regardless of their industry.
We celebrate perseverance, but rarely talk about the wisdom of changing course. In this candid session, Kimberly shares the difficult decisions every leader eventually faces: when to keep investing, when to rethink strategy, and how to separate passion from attachment. Participants learn a practical framework for making courageous decisions in uncertain environments.
Innovation isn't just about creating something new—it's about having the discipline to recognize when your original assumptions no longer fit reality. Drawing from nearly a decade of building and evolving a technology company, Kimberly explores why some organizations cling to outdated ideas while others adapt and thrive. Audiences leave with practical tools for recognizing when to persist, when to pivot, and how to lead innovation without losing sight of the mission.
Belinda Donavant, Senior Director - Product Engineering
Ms. Kimberly Moore, founder and CEO of Go Together, Inc., was the opening keynote speaker for our 2021 Engineers Week. We at Canon Virginia, Inc. love to celebrate the contributions of our engineers, and Engineers Week is a big event in our company. Our theme for 2021 was Art+Engineering, and WOW! Ms. Moore hit it out of the park!
Ms. Moore is a great storyteller! I loved her example that engineering is a bridge between science and fiction, making the unseen become seen. She motivated us with anecdotes of starting her company, Go Together, Inc., from the perspective of the visionary and founder. She shared the experiences of recognizing a gap in the community, forming a vision of a solution, and working tirelessly toward it. She shared her struggles along the way, and also her team’s flexibility to modify the pathway to her ultimate vision as she and her team recognized “opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in a lifetime of opportunity.”
Finally, she inspired us! She encouraged our engineers to put their fingerprints on their work, and recognize their creations will live beyond the time of development. “When you create the magic of bridging the gap between science and fiction, don’t leave out the really important act of celebration.” My favorite “nugget” from her presentation was that she “looks for a team that can understand my crazies!” That really speaks to the innovative and creative environment we encourage at Canon Virginia, Inc. Wonderful solutions will spark from “crazy” ideas as diverse teams of engineers, designers, technicians, operators, planners, analysts and so many others work together to create solutions to benefit our community and our world.
Canon CVI is the manufacturer for Canon’s office and consumer products. Invited as Keynote Speaker for the 2021 Engineering Conference. This year's theme is Art+Engineering.
My Talk -"Art + Engineering – The Bridge between Science and Fiction and Your Fingerprint as Your Legacy"
Art is an idea and engineering is the implementation of that idea, one is complete without the other. Science Fiction is the ability to use the power of science and the imagination of idea to increase the possibilities of what can be. As engineers their fingerprint on the innovation is the legacy their work creates. We explored how and why it’s both exciting and challenging to be the bridge to innovation through knowing their creative strength, untapped potential and the best collaborator to work with.
Provided my perspective on dating after 50, using dating apps and the gymnastics to get to a live conversation or date.
Being all in as a leader is brave and courageous. It also takes a deep sense of self awareness. This talk is about 3 areas of emotional intelligence and leadership:
Self Awareness
Awareness of Others
Importance of Context and Relationships.
Done at the University of Florida for the Heavner School of Business, this talk provided opportunities for students to learn what each area is and how important is for leaders as well as apply their learning through creative group and individual experiments. Takeaways include how your own self awareness affects the team and their success, the power of eye contact in developing empathy of others, skills needed to access the dynamics in a room and relationships.
As a recent speaker at Conference on World Affairs, finally I had the opportunity to speak on this topic that captured me at a very difficult time in my life. I share the 7 principals the person who wants to have this conversation embraces during the conversation. Mine was with my former husband in the midst of an imploding marriage. I got better, the marriage didn't. It's part of my DNA now and has fueled me during my friendships, family and business relationships.
From an early age the box starts getting for us lovingly and unknowingly. “You’d be good at....” “You should go to this school” “You’re a X”. Whether it is, it subconsciously gets internalized and we take it from there and form a thought, participate in activities, etc. Getting Unboxed is a fun and exploration interactive talk to see Just who you could be if you get out of the box. Using a few cools steps used during Startup Weekend, we’ll take 10 minutes to get some insights the audience to take to start Getting Unboxed!
As amazing and adventurous as my life has been it’s mostly started with me being relectuant to do something. Even being the entrepreneur i am today. Those who know do not believe me based on how they have watched my life. This talk is a 6 min snapshot to how being reluctant has led to adventure.
