Kimberly Key
- Past Division President of the American Counseling Association
- Author of "Ten Keys to Staying Empowered in a Power Struggle"
Solid content with lasting insights. That's what your audience can expect when you book Kimberly Key at your next event. Founder of Encompass Work & Family and Keys to Evolution, Kimberly specializes in helping companies, employees and families find solutions for adapting to the changing world. In a global economy where innovation is key, job
read the restKimberly Key, PhD, is an integrative psychologist and creator of SoulResilience™ who brings decades of experience as a public speaker to wide-ranging audiences around the globe. Her expertise as a systems consultant and trauma specialist brings compassionate insight to understanding the complexities of human behavior and change. An author and longtime expert contributor to Psychology Today whose work has reached millions, Kimberly sheds light on some of today’s most consequential challenges—from the changing human in today’s Algorithmic Revolution and AI to the future of work, conflict, safety, health, healing, and the soul.
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Technology may be changing faster than our minds, bodies, relationships, and workplaces can comfortably adapt. Drawing from SoulResilienceTM frameworks and an integrative model of mental health, this presentation explores the essential capacities and conditions that ...more
Technology may be changing faster than our minds, bodies, relationships, and workplaces can comfortably
adapt. Drawing from SoulResilienceTM frameworks and an integrative model of mental health, this
presentation explores the essential capacities and conditions that help people remain centered, conscious,
and connected to the best parts of their humanity while navigating competing influences in the
Algorithmic Revolution. ...less
What happens when technology increasingly performs experiences through which humans once developed essential capacities themselves? Introducing the concept of human bypassing, this presentation examines how outsourcing everyday acts of thinking, creating, communicating, remembering, navigating, relating, ...more
What happens when technology increasingly performs experiences through which humans once
developed essential capacities themselves? Introducing the concept of human bypassing, this presentation
examines how outsourcing everyday acts of thinking, creating, communicating, remembering, navigating,
relating, and tolerating discomfort may affect human development—not only within individuals, but
across relationships, workplaces, and larger systems. ...less
AI is changing what work gets done—but a deeper question is what happens to workers themselves when technology increasingly performs tasks through which people once learned, developed judgment, built relationships, and gained expertise. This presentation ...more
AI is changing what work gets done—but a deeper question is what happens to workers themselves when
technology increasingly performs tasks through which people once learned, developed judgment, built
relationships, and gained expertise. This presentation explores the future of work through the human side
of the equation: the essential capacities organizations and workers may need to consciously develop as the
nature of work continues to change. ...less
Power struggles aren't always obvious—and they aren't limited to open conflict. They can emerge through manipulation, gaslighting, bullying, narcissistic and emotionally abusive patterns, boundary erosion, emotional contagion, digital overwhelm, and the confusing “crazymaking” dynamics that ...more
Power struggles aren't always obvious—and they aren't limited to open conflict. They can emerge
through manipulation, gaslighting, bullying, narcissistic and emotionally abusive patterns, boundary
erosion, emotional contagion, digital overwhelm, and the confusing “crazymaking” dynamics that leave
people depleted and disconnected from themselves. Drawing from my newly expanded second edition of
Ten Keys to Staying Empowered in a Power Struggle, this presentation combines psychology, neuroscience,
trauma-informed perspectives, and practical strategies to help people recognize unhealthy dynamics,
strengthen discernment, communicate more effectively, establish healthier boundaries, and maintain
self-possession under pressure. ...less
In high-stakes industries such as construction, engineering, aviation, and healthcare, conflict can become more than an interpersonal problem—it can become a safety risk. Drawing from decades of research and experience across complex organizations, this presentation ...more
In high-stakes industries such as construction, engineering, aviation, and healthcare, conflict can
become more than an interpersonal problem—it can become a safety risk. Drawing from decades of
research and experience across complex organizations, this presentation explores how stress,
communication failures, hierarchy, power, competing demands, and workplace conditions can interact to
affect judgment, behavior, and safety—and what can be done before conflict becomes consequence. ...less
Healthcare professionals face conflict and aggression from more than one direction—from bullying and disruptive behavior within healthcare systems to violence, threats, and abuse from patients, families, and visitors. Drawing on research in workplace violence, bullying, ...more
Healthcare professionals face conflict and aggression from more than one direction—from bullying
and disruptive behavior within healthcare systems to violence, threats, and abuse from patients,
families, and visitors. Drawing on research in workplace violence, bullying, trauma, conflict, and health
psychology, this presentation examines the individual and systemic forces that contribute to these
dynamics and provides practical strategies for regulation, communication, cognitive rehearsal,
documentation, reporting, and empowered response. ...less
Harassment doesn't occur in a vacuum—and it no longer stops when someone leaves the workplace. This presentation examines the psychological, relational, and systemic dynamics that can contribute to harassment, mobbing, discrimination, intimidation, and other harmful ...more
Harassment doesn't occur in a vacuum—and it no longer stops when someone leaves the workplace. This
presentation examines the psychological, relational, and systemic dynamics that can contribute to
harassment, mobbing, discrimination, intimidation, and other harmful behaviors, including how power,
stress, technology, and digital communication can amplify their reach and impact. Participants gain
practical strategies for recognizing unhealthy dynamics, regulating reactions, responding more effectively,
and helping create conditions in which harmful behavior is less likely to be ignored, reinforced, or
normalized. ...less
Healthcare has increasingly recognized that health and healing cannot be understood through biology alone. Yet as psychological, social, environmental, spiritual, and other dimensions are added to our models, an important question remains: What does it ...more
Healthcare has increasingly recognized that health and healing cannot be understood through biology
alone. Yet as psychological, social, environmental, spiritual, and other dimensions are added to our models,
an important question remains: What does it actually mean to integrate? This presentation examines
why simply adding more dimensions, disciplines, and services may still leave health fragmented—and
introduces Integrative SoulResilienceTM, a relational framework for understanding health and healing
through the dynamic relationships, communication, and adaptations occurring within the person and
across the larger systems in which people live. Participants will consider what changes when whole-person
care becomes not simply a collection of parts, but an understanding of how the whole works together. ...less
Modern medicine can measure thousands of things about a human body. But what happens when some of the things that matter to healing are the things we have learned not to measure—or even ask about? ...more
Modern medicine can measure thousands of things about a human body. But what happens when some of
the things that matter to healing are the things we have learned not to measure—or even ask about? When
we leave the soul out of health and healing, we may leave out conditions that research continues to show
matter to how people experience illness, recovery, suffering, mortality, connection, and life itself. This
presentation introduces Sacred Determinants of Health, a SoulResilienceTM framework based on
extensive research exploring the constellation of sacred influences on how people perceived,
interpreted, responded to, and lived through health, illness, crisis, death, relationships, environment,
creativity, purpose, and change. Participants will learn—and get the opportunity to discuss—what these
often-overlooked conditions reveal about health and healing, and what becomes possible when we bring
the soul back into our understanding of the whole person. ...less
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Austin Speakers Bureau – Counseling Speaker, Kimberly Key on Twelve Surprising Results that Lead to Finding “Balance”
Balance. The word is searched 40,500 per month in the U.S. according to one search engine tracker. It appears there are some folks out there feeling out of balance and wanting to find a way to achieve that seemingly elusive state of balance—which is purported to be so healthy. But why? Try to pause for a moment and think about… ... read more
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