Background
Kim Hartmann Ed.D. is the CEO of KCH Solutions LLC, a management services consultancy specializing in Strategic Planning, Capacity Building, and Leading Change.
She holds a Doctor of Education and Master Certification in Learning Design and Technology from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Arizona State University. Kim is a nationally recognized Nonprofit Lifecycle Institute Master Consultant and Sustained Collaboration Network Technical Assistance Provider and a Certified Public Accountant.
It is Kim’s unique combination of Fortune 50 and not-for-profit management consulting, financial management expertise and hands-on corporate leadership experiences that provide her clients tier-one thought leadership and practical solutions.
Kim enables leadership teams and organizations to achieve their next level of sustainable organizational excellence through a people, process and purpose approach to solution-finding leveraging her unique skills in Strategic Planning, Capacity Building, Leading Change and Financial Management.
Kim is also a Master Consultant with the Nonprofit Lifecycle Institute http://nonprofitlifecycles.com/
Current Work
Kim’s current portfolio of clients include large multi-national Fortune 50, local and national private Foundations, Mission-Based and Education organizations such as:
- Adelante Healthcare
- Advance (formerly Esperanca)
- Arizona Early Childhood Alliance (AZECA)
- Ballet AZ
- Boys & Girls Club of the Valley
- Center for the Future of Arizona
- Children’s Museum of Phoenix
- Childsplay
- Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation
- First Things First
- Fortune 50 Health Care Company
- Foundation for Blind Children
- Girl Scouts of America
- (Goldie) Hawn Foundation
- Hospice of the Valley
- Junior+ Achievement of Arizona
- Mesa Arts Academy
- Mesa Public Schools
- Museum of Northern Arizona
- New Pathways for Youth
- Phoenix Art Museum
- Phoenix Symphony
- Ryan House
- Salt River Project
- Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center
- Stardust
- The Nature Conservancy
- Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
ARTHUR ANDERSEN
Audit & Consulting Partner
As an Audit & Consulting Partner with Arthur Andersen, Kim provided financial expertise, business transformation, change management and business process outsourcing solutions to clients such as:
• AZ Department of Gaming
• Clinica Adelante
• Eastern Arizona College
• Honor Health
• Sunrise PreSchools
• Super Shuttle
• University of Phoenix
Kim was one of three partners who started a new practice within Arthur Andersen to deliver financial and accounting Business Process Outsourcing to clients.
The local Arizona practice grew to over 400 team members, the largest outsourcing business unit within Arthur Andersen Worldwide. Their methodology and best practices were adopted by each outsourcing practice within Andersen globally.
PEROT SYSTEMS
Vice President, Strategy & Business Planning
Perot Systems, as a leading global technology company, had a desire to build a high-growth business services organization.
Over a five-year period, Kim was responsible for the business development and post-merger integration of over 8,500 global Business Process Services team members, supporting one of the highest growth organizations within Perot Systems.
DELL
Executive Director, Strategy & Operations
The high growth continued with the acquisition of Perot Systems by Dell.
As the Business Service leadership team member responsible for Strategy & Operations, Kim continued her unique style of a "people, process and technology" change management approach to successfully continue the integration of two global technology services organization teams across North America, Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America regions, resulting in one of the highest growth units in the Dell organization.
Board | Civic Involvement
Kim’s concentric approach to her professional, personal and civic responsibilities has developed powerful synergies and outcomes.
Her personal mission of - creating sustainable growth, joy and compassion passion – translates into her civic passions of public education and improving the lives of women and children.
- Class VI | Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Fellow
- Appointed Public Member (2017-2020) | Judicial Performance Review Commission
- Board Member and Legislative Liaison LD23, LD25 & LD28 | Scottsdale Parent Council
- Board Member (2014-2018) | Scottsdale Unified Schools District (SUSD)
- Class XX | Valley Leadership Graduate
- Marilyn R. Seymann Award (women and children community service award)
Kim in an elected Governing Board Member of the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD). In addition, Kim serves and has served on many community boards, including:
- Board Chairperson | Arizona Foundation for Women (AFW)
- Founding Board Member | Business United for Scottsdale Schools (BUSS)
- Board Member | Center for After School Excellence (CASE)
- Community Board Member | Charros Foundation
- Co-Chairperson | Combined Metropolitan Phoenix Arts and Sciences (COMPAS)