Kim Zilliox, founder of ITM Solutions, holds both a Master's degree in Business Administration, as well as a Master's in Counseling and is trained in the coaching curriculum at Coaches Training Institute.  She has over 1000 hours of coaching, counseling, and consulting experience through paid and volunteer work.

Kim's background includes sales, sales management, managing and developing trainers, consulting, coaching, and career counseling.  In each of these roles, she has seen the benefits of hiring the right people for the right role, developing them well, and working to retain them.  Personally responsible for hiring, developing, and retaining her direct reports, Kim understands the challenges involved in this process and how the products from ITM Solutions can help streamiline processes and improve results.  (Full bio below)

Kim's goal is to enable HR professionals and direct managers to hire the right people for the right jobs to allow the company to produce better results, and to provide additional information to aid them in qualifying areas for performance improvement.  In addition, Kim's joy is in doing development work with employees--whether through coaching, training, facilitating, or consulting.  Companies are organisms in constant change and to be at their best are always learning and growing.  Kim and her partners have led and coached virtually every topic companies face today and would be thrilled to come in and work with your company to enable it to thrive.

ITM Solutions has a nationwide database of consultants ready to implement solutions for your specific needs.  Full bios of consultants participating in any engagements will be provided based on the specific fit for each customer.

We look forward to serving you and working with you to attract, develop, and retain the right talent for your organization.

Call or email us today for an exploratory conversation!

All the best,
~ Kim

kim@itmsolutions.com
408.979.9876




Kim Zilliox full bio:

Kim Zilliox has nearly 20 years of organizational consulting experience in training, coaching, sales, management, and career counseling. She has worked at Stanford University, Santa Clara University, PlaceWare (now owned by Microsoft), and Frontier Communications. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge around leadership effectiveness, talent development, team building, and goal achievement. Kim specializes in working with managers to be successful, is skilled at coaching people to improve presentation and communication skills, and is passionate about team-building using various assessments and experiential activities. A competitive athlete and sport coach, Kim utilizes models from the sport coaching world to co-create success for the clients she works with.

Working at Stanford University for the Positive Coaching Alliance, Kim trained over 50 top-level sport coaches and psychologists on effective stand-up presentation skills. She has lead workshops to over 1000 coaches, parents, and youth sport leadership representatives on using effective communication skills to yield desired results. Her workshops have impacted over 10,000 young athletes to improve performance, increase confidence, and increase enjoyment.

During her sales experience, Kim sold an international, corporate-wide million-dollar web conferencing solution to Deloitte. She also sold to firms such as KPMG, Ernst and Young, Accenture, Eli Lilly, Motorola, Grant Thornton, BankOne, Federal Reserve Bank, and more. As a sales director, Kim trained and coached over 50 sales representatives in the art of selling and how to reach tough goals. At the same time, she was able to maintain the lowest turnover due to her skills at building effective, cohesive teams and with being a fierce stand for communication. Kim knows how to produce successful sales results and performed consistently in the top 10% in the country.

As a career counselor, Kim has worked with hundreds of clients in all elements of the career transition process. She specializes in coaching people through the interview process and using assessments to help people know more about their strengths and weaknesses. She has been seen on the TV show "You're Hired" and has taught a course at Santa Clara University on Career Strategies.

For the past 14 years, Kim has coached hundreds of individuals and teams on achieving desired results. Through compassionate listening, being a huge stand for her client’s greatness, and holding people to account for what they are committed to, she is able to partner with people to achieve the results they desire. Her clients know what it is like to have all areas of their life work and be in balance. By using extensive business experience and coaching training, Kim is a highly effective trainer and coach.

Kim's client list includes Yahoo!, IBM, HP, Intel, Cisco, Deloitte, Santa Clara Graduate School of Business, and Cypress Semiconductor to name a few.

Kim has earned an M.A. in Counseling from Santa Clara University, an M.B.A. from UC Irvine, and a B.A. in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. She has completed training from the Coaches Training Institute. She is qualified in the MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory; is skilled at 360 interpretation and feedback; has been an advisor to California Career Development Association; assists at local Bay Area OD Network meetings; is a member of Bay Area Association for Psychological Type; and of ASTD.  Her hobbies include competitive volleyball, tennis, and working out and a high priority is spending time with friends and family.