Dr. Kimberly Osborne

For more than 25 years, Dr. Kimberly Osborne has been a trusted coach, mentor, and advisor to U.S. and foreign governments, multinational corporations, international NGOs, top-tier universities, and leading nonprofits.

As a coach, consultant, and speaker, she addresses important subjects including transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, strategic communication, corporate culture and diversity, and enlightened use of power and influence. Dr. Osborne is recognized as a global authority in leadership and communication. She is a 2023 inductee to the Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame and a 2019 winner of the Academy of Human Resource Development’s Bierema Award, honoring scholars and HRD professionals who actively challenge field and industry norms while advancing important social justice perspectives and principles.

She was an invited speaker at the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence in Riga, Latvia in 2016 where she spoke to military and diplomatic leaders from NATO partner nations about how best practices from commercial sector can be applied in military and diplomatic missions. Overseas, she served as the Chief Strategic Communication Advisor in Kabul, Afghanistan at the end of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this role, she was the highest-ranking civilian communication advisor to the Afghan National Security Forces at the end of the longest NATO mission in history.

She also was a Fulbright Scholar in Myanmar at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in 2018, and she worked as an international consultant to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission in Kosovo in 2017. She has also taught programs for the University of Georgia in New Zealand and Costa Rica.