VCU - COACHING WITH KICKSTART
We are passionate about helping people and teams reach their full potential and we love what we do!
Why We Do What We Do
Driven By A Passion For Helping Others.
We have been formed and shaped by wonderful and rich exposure and experiences in leadership, training, and team and individual dynamics. It is our hope that all organizations regardless of size, budget, or structure have access to similar learning and growth experiences. We would love to work with you as a valued partner to grow your leaders and teams to do amazing things.
Investing In Our Community.
We love investing in our own community and joining forces with our clients to make an even greater impact. To that end, we have partnered with two local organizations (Family Lifeline and Second Baptist Church) to provide pro bono services and experiences to build their teams. We don’t mention that to boast about ourselves, but rather to show how proud we are of these organizations and their community efforts, and that we enjoy investing our time, talent, and energy to help them help others.
Why Choose Us?
(What Makes Us Different)
We address problems, not symptoms.
Instead of a ‘canned’ program, we take the time to learn your organization, culture, and key objectives, along with your unique challenges. Then we create a customized program to address your specific situation.
We are engaging and fun!
You and your team will be fully engaged and motivated when working with us. Our programs are highly interactive, relevant, informative & fun… and participants will leave energized and ready to reach new heights. We relate to everyone and pride ourselves on making strong connections with each participant.
We deliver high value and immediate results.
Our solutions are guaranteed to have immediate and impactful results for participants, and deliver real value to your organization. Participants will be supplied with meaningful tools, frameworks, and techniques that can be immediately applied to real-world challenges.
We are easy to work with at every step of the engagement.
We accommodate your needs and seek a true valued partnership.
Who We Are
We are specialists in providing custom leadership development solutions that are experiential, practical, fun, and immediately beneficial to your team. Our staff of over 20 professional coaches, facilitators, project and program managers, trainers and consultants bring a wealth of experience in leadership development and team building to meet your needs. Our experts take your key challenges and messages and incorporate them into a custom learning experience you will be proud of.
As a small, woman-owned business we provide exceptional customer care while delivering high-value customized programs that will help KickStart your organization!
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Kate Foster PMP, CSM, ACC
Founder/Principal
Executive Coach, Facilitator,
Keynote Speaker
Kate is one of the founders and Principals for KickStart Specialists. Kate has over 17 years’ experience as a leadership coach providing coaching services to all levels of leadership, specializing in director level and up. Kate is passionate about helping others recognize and conquer their fears to discover possibility!
Founder/Principal
Executive Coach, Facilitator
Bob Riley CTACC, CHBC
Bob is a co-founder and Principal at KickStart Specialists. He has over 17 years of experience as a coach. In 2006, Bob became a certified coach through Coach Training Alliance. His specialty is coaching executives who are new in their role, as well as their senior leadership team members. Bob has over 30 years leadership experience in large corporations prior to starting KickStart Specialists in 2011.
Deb Starkey
Leadership Coach
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Deb is a seasoned mindset confidence coach with over 20 years of experience empowering women in life and business. Her specialty is transforming self-doubt into unstoppable confidence to navigate challenges and seize opportunities with resilience and grace. She provides tailored strategies honed through years of empowering women to thrive.
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Melissa Curtin
Melissa has over 30 years of senior leadership and coaching experience. Melissa knows first-hand what it takes to build, grow, and sustain an organization while strengthening a team, managing operations, meeting the expectations of internal and external stakeholders, and the countless other responsibilities that keep leaders up at night.
Leadership Coach
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Andre Minns
Leadership Coach
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Andre's specialty is coaching emerging leaders to empower themselves and their teams. Andre has over 20 years of leadership experience in large corporations and the Military prior to starting KickStart Specialists in 2019.
Anne Chamberlain
Leadership Coach
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As a certified mindfulness instructor, Anne specializes in helping leaders deepen their self-awareness to build their capacity to lead (and live) with focused presence and skillful responsiveness. Anne’s coaching and facilitation style is characterized by her natural curiosity, a strong sense of empathy, her use of humor and her ability to be direct with kindness and compassion.