About me
Dr. Kim Richardson is a leadership strategist, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC®), and founder of Keep Rising™. With a PhD in Educational Leadership and thirty years of experience as a teacher, coach, principal, and district administrator, she designs transformational learning experiences that help leaders lead from the inside out.Dr. Kim has partnered with ASCD, Learning Forward, and Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching Group — where she designed Radical Learners: Coaching for Connection, Certainty, and Autonomy. Her Hampton City Schools coaching program was featured in Knight’s book Focus on Teachers. She contributed the guest series Teachers ARE Leaders to Learning Forward’s Learning Professional magazine in 2025.She hosts the podcast Rise Up and Lead: Real Lessons, Real Stories, Real Talk, is a featured speaker with Premiere Speakers Bureau, serves as President-Elect of Learning Forward Virginia, and holds a Brain-Based Design & Facilitation Certificate from the NeuroLeadership Institute (2025), and a Certified MBTI® Practitioner (2017).When she is not helping others rise, Dr. Kim is singing in her church, dancing as a licensed Zumba® instructor, and spending time with her husband, three sons, and granddaughter Amora.
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