Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Kim Graham Lee, CEO of Integrating Women Leaders Foundation, exploring the Allyship-In-Action Benchmark Study, the first nationally-focused study to measure the perceived practice of allyship to women in Corporate America today.
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Kim Graham Lee
CEO, Integrating Women Leaders Foundation (IWL)
Kim has over 35 years of diverse business experience including c-level leadership of start-up and growth companies and account management for some of the largest corporations in the world.
For the past 5 years, she has served as the CEO of Integrating Women Leaders (IWL) Foundation, an Indianapolis-based organization founded in 2010 that is focused on accelerating the advancement of ALL WOMEN to drive individual and organizational growth and impact. Her involvement with IWL actually began shortly after the organization was founded in 2010 when she began her service on its Board.
IWL is best known for its annual women’s leadership conferences. Kim has led the organization’s strategic expansion which includes global and year-long programming to support women and other under-represented groups in the workplace. Activating men as allies is also an important part of IWL’s work and a reflection of Kim’s passion and thumbprint on the organization.
A marketing graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, she spent the first chapter of her career at Walker Information, a global marketing research firm. She advanced to Senior Vice President leading client service teams, global marketing and sales, and new product development. Kim drove groundbreaking research and spoke nationally about the importance of stakeholder loyalty and commitment, business integrity, corporate citizenship and corporate reputation.
In 2000, Kim was recruited to the tech sector where she helped blaze trails as a female leader in the c-suite. Her tours of duty included: Vice President of Corporate Communications & Customer Service for Eviciti, Vice President of Affiliate Relations & Corporate Marketing Communications for LMiV, President of OneBridge, CEO of Vontoo, CMO of Bluelock, and Interim CEO of NPower Indiana.
She pivoted to leadership development in 2013 when she was handpicked to launch a new company called trueU. The company grew from an idea on paper to a membership-based community of 60+ companies committed to growing their business by growing their people, helping leaders become the best versions of themselves.
Active in the community, Kim is also a co-founder and serves as co-president of the Indianapolis chapter of Conscious Capitalism, an international movement of like-minded companies that believe there is a better way to run a business that is focused on the long-term and all stakeholders, including shareholders. She also sits on the newly-formed Board of Visitors for the Walker Center for Business Ethics at Marian University. Kim has served on and led several other national and local boards and has also been recognized for her groundbreaking leadership efforts to build an anti-bullying program at her children’s high school before bullying captured the national spotlight.
Kim is proudest of her role as mom to her two children, both in their careers--Brent, a CPA and Program Director, Community Development at Lilly Endowment, and Brittany, Sales Operations Manager, at Guidepoint Security, a global cybersecurity company. Kim proudly wears her “Grammy” hat with Griffin, Adrienne and Gabe, all 3 years of age or younger.
Kim believes that life is an exciting adventure and that every day is truly a gift.