Kimberly Y. M.
CEO and Cofounder at Go Together,Inc.
Innovation
Education: University of Houston
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Biography
Go Together, Inc. is on a mission to innovate K12 transportation, giving parents more options beyond the bus through their school. We leverage technology to make it easy for them on our platform to meet and collaborate with other parents verified by their school. We deliver this innovative and scalable technology at a go-to solution for districts and schools facing low attendance and bus driver crisis and deliver at 70% savings over bus service.
Passion
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.
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I am willing to travel
More than 100 miles
When it comes to payments
Everything is negotiable
Topics
Best Story
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.
Origin Story
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.
Example talks
Client Testimonial - Canon CVI - "Art + Engineering – The Bridge between Science and Fiction and Your Fingerprint as Your Legacy"
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 - "Art + Engineering – The Bridge between Science and Fiction and Your Fingerprint as Your Legacy"
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.
Swipe Right for a Meaningful Relationship - How Dating Apps Have Transformed Relationships
Provided my perspective on dating after 50, using dating apps and the gymnastics to get to a live conversation or date.
Daring Greatly - Are You in the Arena?
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.
Crucial Conversations - Communicating when the stakes and emotions are high
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.
Get Unboxed!
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!
Reluctant Everything
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.