Own Your Career. Shape Your Future.
Because Careers Don't Manage Themselves!!!
About Kim Boyd
Career Ownership Coach for Seasoned Professionals Navigating What’s Next
You spent years building a successful career. Then a layoff, job elimination, restructuring, or unexpected turning point changed the path you thought you knew.
Now you may be asking: Is my experience still relevant? What do I want next? And where do I even begin?
Kim Boyd understands those questions because she has lived them.
After building a 36-year corporate career spanning banking, leadership, human resources, talent acquisition, and career development, Kim experienced job elimination herself. That transition reinforced a truth she had spent years helping other professionals understand:
Job security may be uncertain, but career ownership is a choice.
Kim is the founder of CareerGLOW, a Certified Career Coach, and the creator of the G.L.O.W. Framework—a practical approach that helps seasoned professionals move from career disruption and uncertainty to clarity, confidence, and intentional action.
Throughout her career, Kim has hired and coached professionals, advised leaders, facilitated career-development programs, taught business communication in higher education, and helped hundreds of people recognize and communicate the value of their experience. She brings together her corporate expertise, talent-acquisition insight, coaching experience, and personal understanding of career transition to help clients answer one essential question:
What do I want the next chapter of my career to become?
Kim works especially well with experienced professionals who have spent 15, 20, or even 30 years building successful careers—often with the same employer or within the same industry—and now need help navigating an unfamiliar job market or determining a new direction.
Her clients are not starting over. They are learning how to reclaim what they have built, give their experience a voice, and use it to move forward.
Through personalized coaching, career assessments, résumé development, LinkedIn positioning, workshops, the Career Advancement & Readiness Support (C.A.R.S.) community, and The Career Owner Podcast, Kim helps professionals:
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Recognize and articulate the value of their experience
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Reconnect with their strengths and transferable skills
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Rebuild confidence after career disruption
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Explore new roles, industries, and professional possibilities
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Position themselves for today’s hiring environment
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Create a practical strategy for what comes next
The G.L.O.W. Framework guides that journey:
G — Gain Clarity & Confidence
L — Lean into your strengths
O — Open new doors
W — Win with purpose
Whether the next chapter involves another corporate role, a career pivot, consulting, teaching, entrepreneurship, or a combination of paths, Kim helps clients understand that a position may end—but the value of their experience does not.
You are more than the position that ended. Your experience still matters. And you can take ownership of what happens next.
Own Your Career. Shape Your Future.
Because careers don’t manage themselves.
Ready to give your career a voice? Let’s begin.
Certified Sparketype Advisor (CSA)
Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP)
36+ Years Corporate Leadership & Management Experience
The Career Glow Mission
Career Glow exists for one reason:
To help professionals take ownership of their careers.
Too many people move through their professional lives reacting to circumstances rather than managing their careers with clarity and intention.
Through coaching, community programs, and career development resources, Career Glow helps individuals:
• gain clarity about their strengths and direction
• build confidence in their professional value
• identify meaningful opportunities for growth
• move forward with purpose
Because when people understand who they are professionally, they begin to show up differently — and their careers begin to glow.
Your career is one of the most important investments you will ever make.
It deserves clarity.
It deserves confidence.
It deserves ownership.
Professional Certifications &
Coaching Expertise
In addition to her extensive professional experience, Kim has pursued formal training and certification in career development and strengths-based coaching to better support the professionals she serves. She holds the Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP) credential through the National Career Development Association, a nationally recognized certification that prepares career professionals to guide individuals through career exploration, job search strategy, and professional development.
Kim is also a Certified Sparketype Advisor (CSA) through the Sparketype Certification Program. This certification equips her to help individuals identify the type of work that naturally energizes them and align their careers with work that feels meaningful and fulfilling. By combining formal coaching certifications with over three decades of real-world leadership and hiring experience, Kim provides practical career guidance that is both strategic and deeply personalized.