About Leadership Coach & Keynote Speaker
Meet Kym Geddes
Kym Geddes is an experienced leadership coach and team facilitator with a passion for tapping into and maximizing the potential of individuals, teams, and corporate brands.
As a growth discovery expert, she shifts mindsets and equips leaders with the tools and strategies to achieve success through collaboration, team engagement, and high-impact performance levels. Kym’s areas of expertise include leadership development, team building, new leader integration, change management, executive presence, and impact and influence communication.
Empower people to be all they can be,
build trusting relationships & serve.
As an accomplished communications and media relations leader, Kym has extensive experience in leadership and talent development, strategic planning, change management and motivational speaking. She has directed the largest award-winning news/talk radio newsroom in Canada, leading a team in all aspects of the department, news gathering and story production efforts, and long-range content vision. She also anchored newscasts at the top-rated major market radio stations in Canada.
Kym was the first woman news director at Canada’s most influential news/talk radio station and was instrumental in leading a cultural transformation focused on diversity, inclusion, equality, and teamwork. She led a major digital transformation initiative and developed and implemented strategies to embrace new technologies and meet the needs of customers and the evolving media landscape.
Kym is a natural relationship builder who has cultivated an extensive professional network with newsmakers, public relations agencies, the business community and government leaders.
Throughout her career she has been the recipient of numerous awards including multiple Radio Television Digital News Association Canada (RTDNA) awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award USA for Best National Newscast, Best Regional Newscast, and Breaking News. In addition, she received the Distinguished Service Award RTDNA Canada in recognition of outstanding contribution in the continued success of the association and exemplary distinguished service rendered for the benefit and advancement of electronic and digital journalism.
Certified Professional Coach + more!
Kym received her Certified Professional Coach designation through the International Coach Federation’s accredited Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC); she is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner and Accredited Practitioner with Human Synergistics Canada.
She has completed numerous leadership programs including Franklin Covey: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results; Franklin Covey: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; and the University of Toronto’s EQ Leadership certification.
Fun Facts about Kym
Everything tastes better if it’s been stored in the freezer — popcorn, beer in iced glasses, coffee, and pretzels. Yup I like my popcorn and pretzels cold. Weird but true.
I’m terribly immature. Ha!
It keeps me young.I cry at commercials.First time on the radio, I was so nervous I mispronounced my name. It stuck.
My most important core value — the one that has guided my life and career: TRUST.
Without it your business will not succeed and without it you will not lead a happy, purposeful life. TRUST is not given or received lightly; it’s earned.
Black and white movies are the best movies ever made; that’s when stars were stars!
I love elephants and doggies.
In that order.I grew up in Utopia.
True fact. Look it up.
the place is real.I would describe myself as a passionate person. Whatever I feel , I feel intensely.
— when I’m mad, I’m REALLY MAD,
happy REALLY HAPPY, sad REALLY SAD.
No middle ground with me.
