Trusted by visionary leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs for over three decades.
XAVIER UNIVERSITY · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY · AMERICAN AIRLINES HERO AWARD RECIPIENT
If You Are Here Something Is Shifting
You've built something. A career. A business. A reputation. A life that, by most measures, looks like success. Yet, you know there is more.
More clarity. More alignment. More income that reflects the depth of who you are and what you bring. More space to lead the way you were actually built to lead. More legacy than the one you're currently on track to leave.
This is the work of women who refuse to plateau. Who recognize that the next level doesn't happen by accident, it happens by strategy, alignment, and intentional execution.
If that's where you are, you're in the right place.
Three Pillars
Three pathways. One aligned vision.
Choose where you are. We'll meet you there.
Tap Into
Your Power
Identify what could be holding you back. Clarify what's calling you forward.
Move into your next chapter on your own terms with confidence, language, and alignment
For the woman who knows it's time, and is ready to name what's next.
Monetize
Your Gifts
Turn your expertise, experience, and natural strengths into aligned income streams.
Build a business model that fits your life, not one that consumes it.
For the woman ready to translate what she knows into what she earns.
Legacy & Wealth
Strategy + Protection
Move beyond income into ownership.
Build, structure, and protect what you've created so it serves the generations behind you, not just the years in front of you.
For the woman thinking past the quarter, the year, and the decade.
About Kimberly
Kimberly Shanks is the founder of Strategize With Kimberly, LLC, a leadership development and strategic growth organization headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
For more than three decades, Kimberly has guided entrepreneurs, executives, educators, and emerging leaders through transitions, expansions, and elevations, drawing on her experience in higher education leadership at Northern Kentucky University and Xavier University, as a school administrator at Cincinnati Public Schools, her corporate leadership tenure with American Airlines, where she received the Hero Award for her role in saving a client's life, and her work facilitating events, programs, and strategic initiatives for over forty years.
She holds degrees from Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati, and credentials including the Women in Entrepreneurship Certification from Cornell University and a Master Advisor Certification with distinction in Cultural Competence.
She built this work for the women she kept meeting along the way, the ones with vision, capacity, and quiet ambition, who needed a strategist who could see them clearly and help them move.
R. Hurst
“Kim Shanks is by far one of the most professional individuals I know. She's passionate about her mission and the value she brings to the entrepreneurial community through her unique approach, guaranteed to crystalize the vision of any entrepreneurs' goal to level up and stay ahead."
What Others Are Saying
J. Parker
"Kimberly is a top strategist and business coach. She is one of a kind in her field of expertise! Her knowledge of how to develop and implement a business vision is top tier. Kimberly's craft is exhibited in excellence and effectiveness!"
C. Schroeder
"Strategize With Kimberly is an amazing business, and more specifically, Strategize with Kimberly produces business and life changing results. From opening your mind to new or old ideas you may have had already but not enough courage or affirmation to do it, or moving forward on a business plan.
She is giving, kind, and a blessed servant to those who need help and she considers your needs with a great gift of insightfulness. You should definitely work with Kimberly if you want and need help with wherever you are in business or in life. She is a great person to work and strategize with :)"
Upcoming Events
Multiple DatesTue, Jun 16WebinarClarity. Alignment. Power - Activated. Tap into the fullness of your power. Align with the essence of who you are to move with intention and purpose to create a life that you absolutely love.
Fri, Oct 02Cincinnati, OH, USADon't miss this one of a kind, dynamic and empowering event that will help you elevate in every area of your life. Come, tap into your power, align with your purpose, and prepare to move with intention as you build and protect your legacy and gain tools to thrive not just survive.
