Member since November 2019
Kimberley Lewis Parsons is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bamboo Teaming, a boutique team effectiveness firm that helps senior leadership teams deliver results faster by removing friction slowing collaboration and cohesion.
With 20 years in a Fortune 100 Bank in technology and people roles leading high-stakes business initiatives, 15 years coaching senior leaders and their teams, and 7 years teaching at Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership,
Kimberley brings a deep wealth of experience to her clients as an executive team coach, executive coach, and master facilitator.
She and her fabulous team of practitioners are crazy about increasing team performance and joy and have helped over 23,000 leaders in various industries team together better to increase their impact and results.
Published in the Harvard Business Review article, “Make Inclusive Behaviors Habitual on Your Team”, Kimberley is also sought out for her pragmatic approach to move from awareness to action that makes inclusion sticky in teams.
Highly credentialed, Kimberley has a BBA and MS in Computer Information Systems, and she holds numerous certifications for executive team coaching, organizational relationship coaching, and executive coaching, including the International Coach Federation’s Professional Certified Coach accreditation.
Kimberley gets "game-day excited" when teams have breakthroughs in their actions and interactions that enable them to become higher performing and more effective.
Kimberley began her career as an IT professional--doing everything from delivering code, leading tech transformation projects, agile coaching, and leading people—which caused her to immerse in a world that depended on team interactions and savvy leadership. Then, Kimberley’s career was disrupted after participating in a nine-month leadership coaching program for women leaders in Tech. She started the program with the goal of becoming a better leader and came out with a desire to make “great people”—not “great code”—her ultimate deliverable. That launched her second career in talent development where she has focused on developing team effectiveness, leading and executing strategy, and maximizing talent potential. Her experiences position her to bring pragmatism and a results focus, as well as, an emphasis on the heart and humanity, to her clients.
In today’s complex organizational environments, interdependent teamwork is not just desirable, but essential. Effective team-based collaboration drives agility, resilience, and adaptability, as well as employee satisfaction, engagement, and morale. This combination is what yields exceptional and consistent results.
Yet for many leaders, the challenge of managing the intricate dynamics of teams—on top of their other leadership responsibilities—can be daunting and overwhelming.
In this session, we’ll cut through that complexity to make the basics of teaming practical and accessible. Grounded in more than 25 years of theory and practice, you’ll learn a time-tested approach that distills team functioning into four interrelated dimensions, with concrete guidance you can implement right away to improve team performance.
In this interactive session, you’ll develop a new understanding of:
The four key dimensions of team functioning and how to grow team strength in each dimension
What's needed by leaders to catalyze team higher performance in teams at the top
Common “hot spots” that can make or break team functioning, and the corresponding team leadership behaviors you can cultivate to overcome them
This talk is best suited to senior leaders responsible for driving team performance
Stop wasting your time trying to find the "right" solution when you know the situations you face won't have a black or white answer. It's more complicated than that and you can be the one to help your teams get to the "best" outcome. With polarity thinking, you can navigate the wicked problems you face by getting the upsides of the very solutions that seem at odds with each other.
Do you feel like the walls are closing in on your when you think about the pace of change and complexity you face at work? While it's true that with greater responsibility comes more challenge and stress but you don't have to fall prey to the pressure. in this talk, you'll learn three simple practices you can implement right away that will help you stay resilient as you lead the big results that take your company to the next level.
While it may feel risky to be clear about what's agreed upon and call it out when it's not met, doing so can bring a huge productivity boost to your team. With this talk, you'll learn the formula of accountability and how to apply it. Your team will be able to stop letting missed expectations fall through the cracks and keep each other focused on delivering the results you promise.
Let's face it: you've spent thousands of dollars on team building and offsite trainings that just didn't translate to significant changes back on the job. Before you vow off team development forever, there is a better way to make changes in your actions and interactions stick. In this talk, you'll learn how team coaching in real time, in your real work, can boost and sustain greater performance and results.
Kimberley began her career as an IT professional--doing everything from delivering code, leading tech transformation projects, agile coaching, and leading people—which caused her to immerse in a world that depended on team interactions and savvy leadership. Then, Kimberley’s career was disrupted after participating in a nine-month leadership coaching program for women leaders in Tech. She started the program with the goal of becoming a better leader and came out with a desire to make “great people”—not “great code”—her ultimate deliverable. That launched her second career in talent development where she has focused on developing team effectiveness, leading and executing strategy, and maximizing talent potential. Her experiences position her to bring pragmatism and a results focus, as well as, an emphasis on the heart and humanity, to her clients.
In today’s complex organizational environments, interdependent teamwork is not just desirable, but essential. Effective team-based collaboration drives agility, resilience, and adaptability, as well as employee satisfaction, engagement, and morale. This combination is what yields exceptional and consistent results.
Yet for many leaders, the challenge of managing the intricate dynamics of teams—on top of their other leadership responsibilities—can be daunting and overwhelming.
In this session, we’ll cut through that complexity to make the basics of teaming practical and accessible. Grounded in more than 25 years of theory and practice, you’ll learn a time-tested approach that distills team functioning into four interrelated dimensions, with concrete guidance you can implement right away to improve team performance.
In this interactive session, you’ll develop a new understanding of:
The four key dimensions of team functioning and how to grow team strength in each dimension
What's needed by leaders to catalyze team higher performance in teams at the top
Common “hot spots” that can make or break team functioning, and the corresponding team leadership behaviors you can cultivate to overcome them
This talk is best suited to senior leaders responsible for driving team performance
Stop wasting your time trying to find the "right" solution when you know the situations you face won't have a black or white answer. It's more complicated than that and you can be the one to help your teams get to the "best" outcome. With polarity thinking, you can navigate the wicked problems you face by getting the upsides of the very solutions that seem at odds with each other.
Do you feel like the walls are closing in on your when you think about the pace of change and complexity you face at work? While it's true that with greater responsibility comes more challenge and stress but you don't have to fall prey to the pressure. in this talk, you'll learn three simple practices you can implement right away that will help you stay resilient as you lead the big results that take your company to the next level.
While it may feel risky to be clear about what's agreed upon and call it out when it's not met, doing so can bring a huge productivity boost to your team. With this talk, you'll learn the formula of accountability and how to apply it. Your team will be able to stop letting missed expectations fall through the cracks and keep each other focused on delivering the results you promise.
Let's face it: you've spent thousands of dollars on team building and offsite trainings that just didn't translate to significant changes back on the job. Before you vow off team development forever, there is a better way to make changes in your actions and interactions stick. In this talk, you'll learn how team coaching in real time, in your real work, can boost and sustain greater performance and results.