The Zen Within®

Professional Services

Providing specialized services to organizations, individuals, and teams, The Zen Within®  moves businesses and business professionals forward.  Enhanced presence and communication, authentic collaboration and alignment, time and priority management, effective decision making… these are some of the zones we help you to eliminate challenges and amplify opportunities. The result is elevated engagement and enhanced outcomes.

Inquire about creating a customized workshop or development series to help your teams align and engage as they navigate the challenges of business leadership.

Team Alignment & Development Workshops

Would you like to enhance your leadership team’s communication skills, collaboration behaviors, decision making ability, and accountability norms? Is it time to set new priorities or align roles, responsibilities, and execution plans to support the organization’s strategic priorities?

Providing your team with new perspectives, approaches, and tools to apply in the management of the business and in their leadership behaviors with their teams is a game-changer.

Inquire about creating a customized workshop or development series to help your teams to align and engage as they navigate the volatilities of business demands.

  • Strategic Planning & Leadership Team Alignment

  • Leadership Development & Collaboration Enhancement

  • Presentation Skills & Interpersonal Communication Excellence

  • Leading Teams with Insight & Impact

Together we can craft an interactive, engaging offsite that will transform your team’s day-to-day work efforts and their ability to deliver the results you need.

Custom Corporate Offsites for Enhanced Performance

Are you finding that your leadership team is struggling to align on business objectives, agree on critical decisions, or efficiently execute on business priorities? If so, you’re not alone.

Underperforming teams are the most common, and the most consequential, issue facing organizations of all sizes. Burnout, overwhelm, and exhaustion (BOE) in your most valuable leaders is real and can lead to pervasive, undesirable outcomes including declining organizational morale, lack of leader engagement, key leader attrition, and subsequent loss of critical organizational knowledge.

Addressing the causes of BOE as a way to enhance team performance will revitalize leaders by rebalancing priorities, focus areas, and efforts while integrating critical self-care behaviors which immediately reduce churn and burnout.

The Zen Within® custom corporate offsites are designed to:

  • Address burnout, overwhelm, and exhaustion

  • Improve interpersonal dynamics

  • Cultivate authentic engagement

  • Drive renewed ownership, accountability, and team alignment

Everyone deserves a professional coach but very few have the opportunity to work with one.

Executive / Leadership / Career Coaching

Do you know why people say, “It’s lonely at the top?” Business leaders and executives do. At the senior levels of organizations, executives find there is often no one who has both the corporate business experience and the situational objectivity to serve as a strategic thought partner in determining a clear and effective path forward for professional, personal, and organizational priorities.

As an Executive Coach, Kim Taylor helps clients navigate the many nuances of personal and professional life – the things they don’t necessarily want to discuss with their most senior leadership or colleagues, wouldn’t share with their direct reports, and their spouse is tired of hearing about. Her partnership approach assists clients to quickly enhance organizational EQ and shift perspectives in order to identify practical changes in approach that bring about transformational changes in outcomes. The result is a deep sense of calm confidence knowing you have a silent partner focused on helping to navigate your most important priorities.

Interested in feeling better?  Reach out, and together we’ll leverage your strengths, interests, and perspectives to create structures and habits which support who you are, and who you envision becoming!

Health & Wellness Coaching

Are you feeling zapped of all your energy? Does the exhaustion, brain fog, sore joints, ruddy skin, puffy eyes, and endless aches and pains in your body make everything more difficult and much less enjoyable? Are you tired of not getting to do the things you desire on the weekends because you are so wiped out from the week that all you can do is rest and try to recover – only to repeat the same pattern the following week?

A Certified Functional Medicine Health & Wellness coach, Kim can help you identify and rewire the things that are keeping you in a state of imbalance.  Be it work rhythms, lifestyle patterns, or other day-to-day nuances – small adjustments can make huge differences in how you feel each day, thereby freeing up more energy to do what you want to do in your life and in your work.

Keynote Speaking & Event Emcee

Kim Taylor is a dynamic and personable speaker who quickly connects with audiences to captivate and inspire.  Her experiences as an Executive Coach, Entrepreneur, “Corporate Athlete”, and world traveler provide relatable real-life examples, amusing personal stories, and practical wisdom to bear on the daily challenges we face, as we navigate the demands of the professional and the personal.

If you’re seeking a speaker for your group who does more than entertain; one who ignites a deep desire to engage at a different level, to embrace and elevate performance and outcomes, look no further.

2022 - 2023
Corporate Engagements

partial listing

  • 19-Jan-23
    Emeritus - Wharton Chief Human Resources Officer Program: Executive Presence

  • 31-Aug-22
    Emeritus - Kellogg Chief Marketing Officer Program: Executive Presence

  • 19-Aug-22
    Emeritus - Wharton Chief Human Resources Officer: Peace + Productivity I

  • 16-Aug-22
    Emeritus - NYU Chief Information Security Officer Program: Executive Presence

  • 29-Jul-22
    Emeritus - Kellogg Chief Marketing Officer Program: Executive Presence

  • 04-May-22
    Emeritus - Columbia Columbia Venture Capital Private Equity: Peace + Productivity I

  • 27-Apr-22
    Emeritus - Columbia Chief Marketing Officer Program Peace + Productivity II

  • 14-Apr-22
    Emeritus - Kellogg Chief Development Officer Program: Peace + Productivity I

  • 11-Apr-22
    Emeritus - Columbia Chief Financial Officer Program: Executive Presence

  • 24-Mar-22 - 08-Mar-22
    AAA - Human Resources Team: Peace + Productivity I

  • 03-Mar-22 & 24-Feb-22
    OneAmerica - Team Member Wellness: Peace + Productivity I

  • 17-Feb-22
    Emeritus - Columbia Chief Marketing Officer Program: Peace + Productivity II

  • 16-Feb-22
    Wharton - Chief Human Resources Officer Program: Peace + Productivity I

  • 15-Feb-22
    AAA - HR Extended Leadership Team: Peace + Productivity II

  • 08-Feb-22
    Emeritus - Wharton Chief Human Resources Officer Program: Peace + Productivity II

  • 11-Jan-22
    Emeritus - Columbia Venture Capital Private Equity: Peace + Productivity I

  • 06-Jan-22
    Emeritus - Columbia Chief Marketing Officer Program: Peace + Productivity I

Because your career is not a journey merely to be ‘tolerated’ or ‘survived’… It’s time to turn your inspiration into focused action.

Executive / Leadership / Career Coaching

Many coaching programs focus on either the professional you or the personal you, but rarely integrate both.  The Zen Within® is an invitation to re-center personal values and reset vital professional energy and focus.

Professional success and personal wellness spring from recognizing and shifting perspectives, decisions, and behavior patterns to enhance outcomes and achieve aspirations. The result is a calm, confident, centered you with an enhanced ability to enjoy your life and drive your career to match your personal and professional vision.

Are you ready to feel like you’re back in charge of you again, no longer at the mercy of the swirl and chaos around you?

Interested in feeling better? Reach out, and together we’ll leverage your strengths, interests, and perspectives to create structures and habits which support who you are and who you envision becoming!

Health & Wellness Coaching

Are you feeling zapped of all your energy?  Does the exhaustion, brain fog, sore joints, ruddy skin, puffy eyes, and endless aches and pains in your body make everything more difficult and much less enjoyable? Are you tired of not getting to do the things you desire on the weekends because you are so wiped out from the week that all you can do is rest and try to recover - only to repeat the same pattern the following week?

A Certified Functional Medicine Health & Wellness coach, Kim Taylor can help you identify and rewire the things that are keeping you in a state of imbalance.  Be it work rhythms, lifestyle patterns, or other day-to-day nuances – small adjustments can make huge differences in how you feel each day, thereby freeing up more energy to do what you want to do in your life and in your work.

People are Talking
"Captivating and extremely professional!  Kim’s ability to keep our attention was outstanding.  I’ve been to many conferences before and the topic of executive presence and personal branding is not a new one but the way Kim presented it shed an entirely new light on the subject for me.  I am truly inspired to be a better leader from what I heard today."  

Wharton CHRO Program / May 2022
"Kim thinks through scenarios for corporate learning experiences from multiple perspectives and develops a very aligned approach that requires minimal tweaking. She always creates a comprehensive approach that meets the stated, and unstated, needs of the whole team.  It’s quite amazing actually as she just “gets it” almost immediately."

R.D. / Chicago, IL
"The first thing I realized working with Kim is how extremely committed she is to her clients.  She listened to my concerns about my team but she could also “hear the team” behind my comments.  It was somewhat stunning how she was able to accurately gauge the larger pulse and identify what would be most effective from a holistic perspective."

Janice / Minneapolis, MN
"Kim was a fantastic facilitator for our CMO/Marketing Sr. Leadership Team offsite.  She listened to the needs of our team, designed a thoughtful agenda, spent ample time preparing and learning about the team, was highly flexible during the event, and brought knowledge, expertise, and loads of energy that kept our group focused and on task."

Jaime W / Los Angeles, CA
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