Kimberly Lyall

Kimberly Lyall

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Calgary, Alberta

Leadership & Resilience | Purpose, Overcoming Adversity & Creating Transformative Change

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    • Leadership
    • Resilience & Change
    • Transformation
    • Purposeful Work
    • Teamwork

    KIMBERLY LYALL BIOGRAPHY

    Kimberly Lyall ‘Lights up Leaders’! Audiences say they feel full of hope, light, and like they can overcome any obstacle after hearing her speak.

    For over 25 years Kimberly Lyall has inspired audiences with her intoxicating blend of energy and insights. As a dynamic speaker, facilitator, college instructor, and award-winning consultant, Kimberly has worked with hundreds of organizations and government bodies across multiple sectors, inspiring positive impact in a challenging world. An expert in transformational leadership and resilience, Kimberly shares real-world strategies that shift mindsets, fuel action, and create results!

    After a childhood of divorce and poverty, Kimberly Lyall became a respected community leader and CEO at the age of 26 years. However, two years later an employee committed major fraud that bankrupted her nonprofit organization, and then died by suicide. While battling PTSD from this trauma, Kimberly rebuilt the organization into a powerhouse, increasing operating revenues by 213%, expanding services through new profit centers that attracted millions of dollars in contracts, and developing ground-breaking, award-winning approaches that innovated her industry.

    Four years after the fraud, at the height of her career, Kimberly Lyall experienced harassment by a new member of her Board of Directors. When she stood up against the harassment, she was fired. This triggered a return of her PTSD, leaving her unable to work for over a year.

    Kimberly Lyall fought back, launching a wrongful dismissal lawsuit that took 7 years to win. During those years Kimberly started her consulting practice, providing strategic planning, project management, fund development, organizational training, leadership mentoring, facilitation, and more. Always looking to innovate, for her second client Kimberly developed and led a project that won a Governor General Award for revolutionizing best practice in community Oral History research.

    Kimberly Lyall also joined the instructional team at Lethbridge Polytechnic and for 6 years taught leadership, change management, and organizational development courses to corporate clients and in Indigenous communities.

    During this time Kimberly’s husband Emil started suffering severe medical issues. Hospitals and clinics became a regular part of their lives, and eventually they traveled across Canada for medical tests and life-saving surgeries, with Kimberly in the role of Caregiver.

    In 2018, after Emil had recovered from major lung and heart surgeries, Kimberly ran for political office. By this point she’d had over 25 years of political volunteerism and campaign experience, believing that government had the responsibility to make life better for people. It was a very polarizing time. Kimberly insisted on integrity in all her campaign activities and communications, which cost her many votes, and resulted in a second-place finish. This outcome became a win however, as Emil’s health continued to decline, and in late 2021 at the height of the pandemic, he died. Kimberly, like many people around the globe, waited almost 10 months for restrictions to fully lift before hosting a Celebration of his life.

    Today Kimberly Lyall shares her hard-won insights about purpose, leadership, and resilience with audiences around the world, replacing their overwhelm with optimism! She continues to challenge the status quo, helping clients in a wide diversity of industries, including hospitality, medical equipment, mental health, food insecurity, housing, seniors’ services, research, career development, tourism, community wellbeing, and more. Her expertise in strategic evolution and organizational development supports the structural needs of many companies and municipalities, while her experiences overcoming adversity, PTSD, and burnout align with the challenges that so many leaders are facing today. In a weary world, Kimberly provides hope.

    Kimberly Lyall has extensive volunteer experience locally and internationally with the YWCA, Lions Clubs, Celebrate Canada, and many more. She is a Woman of Distinction, Governor General Award winner, and Alberta Centennial Medal recipient. Kimberly is a collaborative author of the book “Trailblazer Secrets”. She is proud to be a non-Indigenous recipient of the prestigious Blackfoot name “Kómmonoi Saamiaki”, Blue Paint Headdress Woman.

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    In this collection of stories by thought leaders and experts, Kimberly Lyall shares with readers how a choice she made to take back her internal power resulted in a life-changing experience.

    Kimberly Lyall Topic Presentations

    Kimberly Lyall Calgary, Alberta, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

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    Kimberly Lyall Speaking Testimonials

    People are still talking about your presentation a week later, and those that missed it are looking for the recording. The framework you provided is so actionable and is such a great takeaway for people to implement. Your message certainly struck a chord with many!

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