When Kim Speaks, Thinking Shifts

Kim doesn’t just talk. She challenges. She provokes. And she changes the way leaders think.

Some of the Stages Kim has Spoken On

What Happens When Kim Takes the Mic?

Kim doesn’t let leaders off the hook. She challenges them to take a close look at how they think, how they show up, and how they lead. And she gives them the tools to lead in a whole new way.

Kim's Speaking Topics

Great Leaders Are Great Coaches

Whether you lead a team, mentor rising talent, or run an entire organization, your most powerful tool as a leader is your ability to coach. This skills-based, experiential workshop shows leaders how to shift from directing to developing, from telling to transforming.

Kim equips participants with coaching skills that build trust, elevate performance, and help people thrive. Leaders leave ready to ask better questions, navigate tough conversations, and influence their teams in ways that create lasting impact.

How Exceptional Leaders Think

Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Lady Gaga, Richard Branson. They all share a common thread. Their thinking fuels their success, their innovation, and their ability to inspire others.

In this interactive session, Kim takes you and your audience deeply into that kind of thinking. She shows you how top performers approach problems, challenge assumptions, and make decisions, and teaches you how you can do the same. You will look at your own patterns, uncover the thoughts that hold you back, and learn how to replace them with strategies that drive extraordinary results.

Meet Kim Ades

Kim Ades, MBA, is a highly interactive speaker, pulling her audience into the conversation and challenging them to confront the thinking that drives their choices. Her sessions are raw, practical, and unforgettable because the shift happens in real time.

She has spoken for a vast number of leading organizations including Microsoft, Vistage, TEC Canada, SHRM, and Coaching.com among many others. Whether it is a room of executives, entrepreneurs, or innovators, Kim gets people to put down their phones, stop coasting, question their habits, and adopt new ways of leading on the spot.

When Kim takes the stage, audiences are not just inspired, they are disrupted. They rethink how they show up in one-on-ones, how they measure performance, and how they lead under pressure. They walk away with sharper clarity, bold new tools, and the courage to lead differently.

The Impact of Kim’s Speaking

I LOVED your session!!! I was captivated from the beginning to the end. Your stories were excellent. You engaged the audience like a pro. And you were thought provoking throughout the entire session. Amazing!!

OMG you changed my life in about 1 hour! You are definitely doing what you were meant to do. You were motivating, inspiring and engaging. Your presentation was focused and clearly presented. Such an effective presentation.

The Frame of Mind Coaching event we participated in is possibly the best leadership seminar I have attended. I feel significant benefit both professionally and personally from my implementation of a number of items covered that day.

Dear Kim: You were absolutely awesome! And for the next two days, your presentation continued to be a highlight of many conversations.

I was fortunate enough to see Kim present at a strategic Human Resources conference in a room of 900 people. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. She has a way of getting to the heart of things and touching people in a very human way that is irresistible and that you can't help but relate to.

Kim Ades's talk was nothing short of inspiring. The attendees were highly accomplished managers with years of experience directing the activities of major companies in New York City. They can be a tough audience to say the least, but Kim completely captured them with her energy, thought-provoking questions and live participation.

Our leadership team attended a workshop given by Kim Ades and it was the highlight of our meeting. In a short period of time, all the leaders had a different perspective on what it meant to lead and transform people. I sincerely recommend Kim’s workshop to any company that values their people!

Kim was intellectually intoxicating. Now there’s a coach with passion about her offering!

Kim Ades was my favourite of all of your speakers. She is the kind of inspiring person that I think people really go to conferences to see. She is a very likeable and genuine person, by the end of her talk I felt I could do whatever I set my mind to. People left the room buzzing about her.