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Kim Dabbs is a global leader in the area of belonging and purpose. For the past two decades, her work—spanning both the nonprofit and corporate sector in the United States and abroad—has focused on helping individuals, team leaders, organizations, and communities gain the tools to create a more equitable and inclusive world. Kim has given talks on identity and building cultures of be- longing at such organizations as TEDx, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Aspen Institute, the Drucker Forum, the Equity Lounge at the World Economic Forum, and the Guggenheim. She has received numerous recognitions throughout her career. These include a Joyce Fellowship from Americans for the Arts, a three-month residency at Stanford’s d school with leadership training in human-centered design, and being selected as an innovation coach at IDEO U. While serving as the executive director of the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology (WMCAT), Kim and her team crafted a new model rooted in holistic belonging for both adult career training and teen arts + tech engagement, leading to WMCAT’s recognition by the White House as a national best practice. Kim currently serves as the global vice president of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and social innovation at Steelcase, a global design firm and thought leader in the future of work. For more than a century, Steelcase has designed, manufactured, and partnered with the world’s leading organizations to create furnishings and solutions for the many places where work happens. Kim leads the organization in setting a bold global ESG strategy to build a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable world. She works with the executive leaders of their global clients and communities to design cultural transformation projects investing in social impact initiatives where they live and work to ensure long-term impact. During the seven years Kim has been part of the executive team, Steelcase continues to lead the industry in practices for people and the planet, earning a perfect 1 hundred point score on the Corporate Equality Index issued by the Human Rights Campaign. In addition, Steelcase has been named as one of the top fifty community-minded companies by the Points of Light foundation, recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for Women, and named as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune magazine. Prior to joining Steelcase, Kim led nonprofit organizations in the equity, education, and public policy spaces. The longer she experienced barriers to progress for the organizations and the people she served, the more she wanted to work at scale within the systems that she saw as the root cause of many of these systemic barriers. At Steelcase, Kim reimagines capitalism from the inside out by mobilizing the organization’s twelve thousand employees, seven hundred seventy dealership locations, and more than three billion dollars in annual revenue to point the future toward people and the planet to help the world work better. She currently lives in Munich, Germany, with her family.
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You Belong Here

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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.

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    • You Belong Here

    • The Power of Being Seen, Heard, and Valued on Your Own Terms
    • Written by: Kim Dabbs
    • Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2024-12-17
    • Language: English
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