BRENDA DUNN KINNEY

ASSOCIATE PROFILE

Brenda Dunn Kinney, President of BDK & Associates, helps individuals and organizations collaborate, discover and grow opportunities that most people would not even see, much less profit from. She is an accomplished executive consultant, visionary, business strategist, technologist, relationship builder and certified executive business coach.

Business insight, honed while working for some of the country’s top companies, drives Brenda’s consulting practice. Nearly 20 years of senior level management experience with a broad range of business opportunities gives Brenda the perspective to examine a challenge from many different points of view to discover the best possible solutions.

More than just another bright business management guru, Brenda combines keen “people collaboration skills” with a strong analytical acumen that drives the development of ideas that achieve multiples of added value -- far beyond what most people would see.

Indeed, when a firm hired Brenda to take their retail mall to the web, she was not satisfied with merely creating an eCommerce site. Brenda helped this shopping mega mall experience to become the “Number One Tourist Attraction” in the state of Illinois – home to Lincoln’s birthplace, the vast museums and attractions of the city of Chicago, and the entire Lake Michigan playground. Quite a feat for a shopping center!

It is indicative, however, of the way Brenda approaches a business challenge that sets her apart. She does not seek to merely “fix” a problem. She seeks to create something that has multiples of value. Much like an expert diamond cutter, who can see the finished gem within the raw crystal, Brenda finds value where others simply see a rock.

But the real beauty in this top consultant’s work is that she does not wield the diamond-cutting instruments herself.  Instead she leads & guides people to their own discoveries that they hold inside themselves and their organizations.  She helps “deliver” these discoveries and gives them shape and dimension, so that the individuals and organizations can continue to “win” on their own, long after she leaves.

You will see below a list of companies who have engaged Brenda’s professional management and marketing expertise in high-level management positions over the past 20 years.

As an innovative, dedicated leader and mother, Brenda has continued her learning far beyond to support her clients and their growth. Her dedication and innovation to her community high school youth over five years in mentoring, coaching and preparing the youth of Lake County Illinois for future business leaders.

Bottom line: Brenda is not the guru who pronounces solutions for organizations – she is the visionary with motivation who can elicit solutions from clients that they hold deep within, grows them and shape’s those solutions to create multiple values far beyond their original scope. She’s a motivational speaker with passion around business relationships. She has most recently been in the Chicago Tribune on Networking & Building Relationships, published two articles in the Direct Marketing Association on Leadership Collaboration and Sales Collaboration, and was featured in America’s first class coaches segment on United Airlines March & April 2003 and on Northwest Airlines Sky Radio program in Business Lifestyles August 2003 program.