Meet Kim
Kim Jokisch is a credentialed coach (ICF ACC) and creative collaborator. As the Founder and Principal of Jokisch Coaching, she provides executive, leadership, and career coaching and delivers facilitation services.
She helps leaders unlock their potential and build cultures where people and performance thrive. Kim works across the tech, public, and nonprofit sectors, guiding clients to elevate performance, expand influence, and navigate change. Clients value her empathy, authenticity, and how she helps them gain clarity and momentum.
With more than 25 years of global corporate experience, Kim has held leadership roles in Marketing Communications and Human Resources at high-growth companies, including Red Hat, the open source software leader, where she helped scale the organization from 600 to 20,000 employees. She built and led strategic functions such as the corporate university, internal communications, employer branding, and digital media teams, while also serving as a leadership and career coach. Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Learning and Development at The Body Shop, leading training and executive communications.
Kim is certified in the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0), Emotional Quotient 360 (EQ360), Six Domains of Leadership Survey (SDLS), Tilt365, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and behavioral based interviewing. She is a national conference speaker featured at LinkedIn Talent Connect, the International Association of Business Communicators World Conference, DisruptHR, Ragan Communications, and the Advanced Learning Institute.
She also serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors of the Wiley Elementary Foundation, a nonprofit supporting an award-winning International Studies magnet public school. Outside of work, Kim loves traveling and spending time outdoors with her husband, energetic son, and small dog with an oversized personality.
Kim makes a magical and potent kind of clarity. Working with her is a kind of radical self-care I did not even know existed and is, in fact, essential.
– Tift Merritt
Songwriter, musician, and researcher