Sessions
SEL for Education (Beachcomber)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Sat
Dr. Kimberly Davis, Founder and Principal of Top Performance Leadership Group, LLC, is an Educational Leadership graduate in Transformational Leadership from Concordia University-Portland. Her research in Organization Development explored how practitioners of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) determine impact. She has identified a pivotal point in motivation to change she termed the Paradigm Fulcrum©, an emergent concept she continues to develop by integrating Transformative Emotional Intelligence (TEI) with the strengths-based AI change model for coaching and training excellence in education, business, healthcare, and personal development. Dr. Davis is an engaging public speaker, entrepreneur and business consultant, served as a business leader for major corporations, and is a published curriculum and journal article author. Currently, Dr. Davis serves as a public-school district administrator as the Special Education Director while speaking, publishing, coaching, and consulting business and educational organizations. She is further credentialed as a certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator and a certified Transformative Emotional Intelligence (TEI) coach.