Kymberlee Weil

Athlete, Business leader, Business mentor, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Performer, Producer, Social entrepreneur, Technologist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Kymberlee Weil is a storyteller, speaking strategist, passionate entrepreneur, a lifelong athlete, an improv performer and an exceptional communicator who has spent over 28 years studying the mindset that creates peak performance in business, in sports and on the stage. No matter if she is working with people to help them tell stories that affect change or to help them craft talks that can change lives, her specialty is high-stakes short-form communication. Influenced by twelve years attending the annual TED conference and producing TEDx events, including TEDxSantaBarbara, she has helped hundreds of speakers discover their core idea and transform it into a message the world needs to hear through story, structure and staging. Kymberlee works one-on-one with clients all over the globe. She gives workshops that take participants to new levels of awareness, confidence and focus in their public speaking, especially when everything is on the line. Her events include training on Short-Form Storytelling, Impactful Talks, Improv for Executives and more. In all of her entrepreneurial efforts, Kymberlee draws on her lifelong experience as an elite athlete. At the University of Hawaii, Kymberlee attended on a full scholarship for softball and was recognized as an NCAA Woman of the Year. She has been a Martial Artist for over thirty years and is a Fifth Dan Black Belt, Master level, in the Korean Martial Art, Hapkido. In addition to training in the Dojo, Kymberlee can be found most mornings at CrossFit where she tests and pushes her own boundaries every day. Kymberlee has had a strong passion for business since she was very young. She earned her MBA at Pepperdine University and wrote two books on computer technology. Kymberlee co-founded introNetworks, an award winning software development and licensing company which debuted at TED in 2003. Her experience speaking at TED University inspired her to create Storytelling School, a platform that specializes in High-Stakes Short-Form Communications, influenced by insights garnered from over twenty years of attending, participating in and producing TED events as well as experience training, teaching and performing in improv comedy. Kymberlee’s work both behind and in front of the curtain continues to be celebrated. In 2014, she won the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award for Professional Services. In 2019 she received the Association for Women in Communication’s Women of Achievement Award. Kymberlee’s determination to defy her own barriers fused with her unique combination of Storytelling, Speaking and Strategy has resulted in a powerful approach to communications which she willingly shares with others.

I'm building a movement of master storytellers to affect change in our world on a global scale.

One story can change, and even save, someone's life.

Improv, Martial Arts, Speaker Coaching, Speaking, Story Training, Storytelling, TEDx

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