The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces
Living Proof That Bending the Rules Isn’t Breaking the Law.
The Easy Way to Keep the Cyber Wolves at Bay
How to Bullet-Proof Your Business and Laugh at Volcanoes, Tornadoes, Locust Plagues, and Hard Drive Crashes.
Common Sense Practices to Avoid Calamities, Catastrophes and Lack Lustre Results for Corporations and Small Businesses.Past Speaking Engagements and Publications
Keizai Society – “The Future of Japan – Seclusion in Paradise, Slide into Irrelevance, or Global Leader?” Panel discussion with Kimberly advocating “Japan leading in Asia FOR the World”.
The above panel discussion, and the video below, are examples of Kimberly’s engaging and irreverent style. Her “tell it like it is” approach makes an impact that changes thinking, behavior and results.
Management and Inspirational
Global Business Leadership Consulting. Kimberly’s Interview with “Project Shrink” Bas de Baar
Creating Your Entrepreneurial Vision. Hewlett-Packard, Business Information Center, SBA*Cisco Systems, San Jose Entrepreneur Center, University of California Berkeley Career Conference, quarterly workshops – Career Action Center, Sequoia Adult School District, CalWorks program – Gavilan College, and the Junior League of Monterey.
Project Management Overview for Business Managers. Business Information Center, SBA*Cisco Systems, San Jose Entrepreneur Center.
Project Leadership and Communication. Business Information Center, SBA*Cisco Systems, San Jose Entrepreneur Center.
How to Build the Right Product – Faster, Better, with Fewer Resources. SD West
Real World Product Development Lessons. SD Forum.
Customer-Centric Product Development- The Alternative to Hunch-based Product Development and the Tyranny of the Urgent. Delphi Group – Business Process Management Summit ’01.
Optimism as a Strategy. CA State EDD, PenNet Professionals Network, Career Action Center, LifePartner Quest, Institute of Management Accountants, Mid-peninsula Chapter.
The Possibilities Toolbox. PenNet, ProMatch, CA State EDD organizations, Career Action Center, Sequoia Adult School District 2002, and National Semiconductor.
The Fallacy of Intuition. IEEE Consultants Network.
Nobody Ever Told Me I’d Have to Be a Sales Person, Too! Business Information Center, SBA*Cisco Systems, San Jose Entrepreneur Center.
Professional Empowerment for Women. 8 session success team workshop.
The Art of Conversation. CA State EDD, PenNet Professionals Network, LifePartner Quest.
The Power of Vision in Your Relationships. LifePartner Quest.
Technical
Featured physicist, The Sloan Career Cornerstone Video Series. A collaborative effort of eleven engineering, mathematics and physical science professional societies sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
External Partnering for Rapid New Product Development. HP Technical and Professional Women’s Conference Science & Engineering Track Session.
Novel Ferroelectric Fluids. Presented by Rolfe Petsek, Ph.D. and Kimberly Wiefling, M.S., Ohio Section Meeting of the American Physical Society.
What do Quartz Oscillators, Relativity and the Global Positioning Satellite System Have to Do with my Cell Phone? Truman State University.
An Education in Physics: The Technical Path to Career Agility. “What Physicists Do” Seminar Series. Sonoma State University.
Technical Publications
“A Method Optimization Technique for GC/MS Analysis Using Design of Experiments.” Roger Leibrand and Kimberly Wiefling. Poster presented at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS).
“Novel Ferroelectric Fluids.” Rolfe Petsek, Ph.D. and Kimberly Wiefling, M.S. Published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 59, Num. 3, 20 July 1987.
“A Comparative Study of the Dielectric Relaxation Behavior of 3 Siloxane Backbone Polymer Liquid Crystals.” Poster at Baltimore Specialty Polymers ’86.