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Kimberly Wiefling

Kimberly Wiefling

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Kimberly Wiefling, Executive Editor of the Scrappy About Series, is aproven expert in enabling people to achieve what seems impossible, but ismerely difficult. She is the author of one of the top project management booksin the US,"ScrappyProject Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every ProjectFaces, a book growing in popularity around the world, and recentlypublished in Japanese by Nikkei Business Press.

 

She founded WieflingConsulting, LLC, a global leadership and business management consulting firm,in 2001. She currently spends about half of her time working withhigh-potential leaders in Japanese companies as the Executive Director for ALCEducation’s Global Management Consulting Group, an organization based in Tokyo,Japan. Her work includes facilitating leadership, communication, teamwork,innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies tosolve global problems profitably.

 

A physicist byeducation, Kimberly began her professional career with 10 years at HP inproduct development, project management and engineering leadership. She spentfive years in the wild and wacky world of Silicon Valley startups, including aXerox Parc spinoff where she was the VP of Program Management. In 2001, sherose from the ashes of the dot-com bust, launched her consulting practice, andnever looked back. In typical Silicon Valley style, Kimberly has helped tostart, run and grow about a dozen small businesses. Several of the startupsthat she co-founded are still in business and profitable.

 

Kimberly's clientsinclude companies like Cisco Systems, Symantec, Intuit, HP, AgilentTechnologies, Mazda, Daiichi Sankyo, Dow Corning Toray, Mitsubishi HeavyIndustries, the University of California, the Institute of TranspersonalPsychology, Siemens, Hitachi, Alcoa, Xerox PARC, NECsoft, NTT DoCoMo, and manymore. Nearly 6000 people have viewed the hysterical videodocumenting the final phase of completing her first book. Kimberly iscontributing to making the world a better place in a number of ways. She's theco-founder of the Open Kilowatt Institute (OKI) and the co-chair of the SDForumEngineering Leadership Special Interest Group (EL SIG). She's supportingmicro-finance for entrepreneurs throughout the world via Kiva, and she supportsthe economic independence of women in various ways because she believes thatthis is the most effective way to raise the quality of life for all people.

 

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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&quot;This is an excellent collection of stories about courageous business women who have broken barriers to achieve their goals! Each of these talented, and creative women are an inspiration to us all. Everyone can relate to their struggles, their ambitions and to the many insightful, real-life stories. Most of all, the book made me laugh - there are many truly hilarious passages. It is a great read and I would highly recommend it to anyone who aspires to beat the odds and pursue their dreams. If you are not &quot;scrappy&quot; already, this is the book that will inspire you to be so!&quot;  Devlin (Amazon book review)<br /><br /><br /> &quot;You've heard of the theory of &quot;Six Degrees of Separation?&quot; In Silicon Valley I haven't yet been able to make it more than three degrees before people are connected to Kimberly Wiefling. Everyone has a story to tell about Kimberley. Everyone who's been in her sphere of influence.&quot;<br /><strong>Sandra A. Clark, Director of Communications, <a href="http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/" class="maroontxtlink">UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley</a>.</strong><br /><br />&quot;Ever have a day when everything goes wrong and you feel lost, defeated, and ready to quit? Well that is when you need to pick up this book and read a chapter. It will energize you with stories of women who faced tough challenges, and beat the odds on their road to success. These stories will save your sanity, keep you afloat and inspire you to pursue your dreams. Keep it handy when you need an energy boost!&quot;<br /><strong>Mala Devlin, Author of <a href="http://amzn.to/96EdtT" class="maroontxtlink">The Software Soul</a>.</strong><br />