Founder & Group CEO
Global Connector · Entrepreneur · Builder · Transformative Disruptor
Connecting what belongs together.
Building what should exist.
Challenging what stands in the way.
Kimberly DeWitt is an entrepreneur, strategist, and global connector driven by a belief that some of the greatest possibilities emerge when the right people, ideas, cultures, and opportunities find one another. Across business, technology, public service, international commerce, and community impact, she has built a career around making those connections—and turning them into something tangible.
“Everything you want is on the other side of your fear.”
Kimberly DeWitt sees possibility in the spaces between people, ideas, and opportunity.
There has rarely been a straight line through Kimberly's career, and that is precisely the point. Across entrepreneurship, enterprise transformation, public service, technology, workforce development, international trade, and community impact, one instinct has remained constant: connect what belongs together.
People with opportunity. Ideas with resources. Organizations with solutions. Communities with access. Global markets with local creators. Vision with the structure required to make it real. Those connections often reveal something else: what is missing. That is where the builder emerges. DeWitt Global Ventures grew from that intersection of connection and creation. Its companies operate in different industries, but they share a common purpose.
Different industries. Different tools. Different expressions of the same belief: The distance between what exists and what is possible often begins with a connection. For Kimberly, however, connection is not networking for networking's sake. It carries a responsibility to act. When a connection reveals an opportunity, build. When it reveals a gap, bridge it. When it reveals a system that unnecessarily limits people or possibility, challenge it.
That philosophy sits at the center of DeWitt Global and at the center of Kimberly's approach to leadership. Entrepreneurship is not simply about owning companies. It is about creating vehicles through which people, ideas, resources, and opportunities can find one another and then building something meaningful from what becomes possible.
The connections she makes
What I Believe
I believe connection creates possibility.
The right conversation can change a career. The right introduction can unlock an idea. The right partnership can bridge communities, industries, and continents. Part of leadership is seeing connections others may not see—and having the courage to make them.
I believe access without empowerment isn't enough.
Opening a door matters. Equipping someone to walk through it, succeed on the other side, and eventually open doors for others matters more. Opportunity should multiply.
I believe the best partnerships make everyone stronger.
Genuine partnership requires listening, learning, sharing power, and recognizing the people already doing the work. Sometimes the strongest form of leadership is leading from the back.
I believe business can make money and make things better.
Profit and purpose are not opposing ideas. Commerce can create jobs, strengthen communities, expand access, connect cultures, and build generational opportunity. The question is not whether businesses should create value. It is how broadly we are willing to define who receives it.
I believe intentionality matters, especially when it is inconvenient.
How something is built matters as much as what is built. The fastest, easiest, or most profitable path is not automatically the right one. Provenance matters. People matter. Sustainability matters. The decisions nobody sees still define what an organization ultimately becomes.
I believe leaders should create more leaders.
The measure of leadership is not how indispensable you become. It is what becomes possible without you. I want the people and organizations I touch to become more capable, more confident, and more willing to create opportunity for someone else.
I believe "that's how we've always done it" is an invitation.
Systems, traditions, and assumptions should serve people—not the other way around. I don't believe in disruption for its own sake. But when the way something has always been done becomes the reason something better cannot happen, I am willing to ask the uncomfortable question, challenge the comfortable answer, and help build the alternative.
And above all, I believe fear is often the last thing standing between an idea and its possibility.
“Everything you want is on the other side of your fear.”
For me, that isn't a slogan. It is a challenge:
Make the connection. Build the thing. Ask the question. Enter the room. Cross the border. Take the risk.
And see what becomes possible.
Building Beyond Business
For Kimberly DeWitt, leadership has never stopped at the boundaries of a company. Her work across public service, nonprofit leadership, community advocacy, and global engagement reflects the same philosophy that shapes DeWitt Global: access should lead to empowerment, opportunity should multiply, and those with the ability to create pathways have a responsibility to do so.
Public Service
Kimberly’s public-service journey has taken different forms from seeking elected office to leading transformation from inside government. Across each experience, the throughline has remained the same: a belief that institutions can work better when leadership connects people, challenges assumptions, and builds with intention.
For Kimberly, service is not defined by a single office, title, or moment. It is an ongoing commitment to bringing a builder’s mindset to the public square and to remaining willing to serve where her experience can create meaningful impact.
Board & Community Leadership
Kimberly's approach to board service is intentionally hands-on. She believes leadership means bringing your relationships, experience, voice, resources, and willingness to work to the table—not simply occupying a seat
Her service has extended across organizations working in community equity, education, humanitarian design, and international development, including:
Across each organization, the objective may be different. The responsibility is the same: help strengthen the people already doing the work.
Global Engagement
Kimberly's global work is grounded in a belief that international engagement should be built with communities, not simply conducted in them.
From entrepreneurship and education to commerce and community partnerships, she seeks relationships that respect local knowledge, elevate local champions, and create value on both sides of a border.
For Kimberly, being global isn't measured by the number of countries in which you operate.
It is measured by the depth of the relationships you build across them.
Public Service & Civic Leadership
For Kimberly, public service has never been confined to elected office. It has meant seeking the opportunity to represent her community, accepting the responsibility to build within government, and remaining willing to answer the call to serve again.
Across electoral politics and executive public service, each experience has expanded Kimberly's understanding of how communities, institutions, policy, technology, and leadership intersect—and of what it takes to turn ideas into meaningful public outcomes.
2016 + 2024
Kimberly first sought elected office in 2016 as a candidate for Kansas House District 35. Eight years later, she returned to the ballot for the same district, bringing an expanded body of experience across entrepreneurship, technology, organizational leadership, international business, and community service.
Those campaigns became part of a broader journey—not simply toward elected office, but toward understanding more deeply how communities, institutions, policy, and leadership intersect.
State of Kansas · Current Public Service
In November 2024, Kimberly was hired as the State of Kansas' inaugural Executive Branch Chief Data Officer, taking on the opportunity to help build a statewide data function from the ground up.
Through the Enterprise Data Office, her work has focused on advancing statewide data strategy, governance, policy, data literacy, cross-agency collaboration, and responsible innovation—helping create the structures, relationships, and capabilities necessary for data to become a more useful strategic asset across state government.
The role has given Kimberly another dimension of public-service experience: leading transformation from inside government and navigating the realities of turning public-sector vision into institutional change.
Statewide Leadership
Kimberly does not consider her political journey complete. She intends to continue building a career in public service, with a future run for Kansas Secretary of State among the next chapters she intends to pursue. Over the longer term, her aspirations include exploring the opportunity to serve as Governor of Kansas.
Those ambitions are informed by the experiences that came before them—as a candidate seeking the opportunity to serve, as an executive entrusted with building inside government, and as a community leader working across sectors.
"Where can leadership create the greatest opportunity for people, institutions, and communities to move forward?"
Serve · Build · Lead · Serve Again
The Multiplier Effect
The goal is not simply to create impact. It is to create people capable of creating more of it.
A student becomes a professional.
A professional becomes a mentor.
An entrepreneur creates jobs.
A local partner becomes a champion.
An opportunity received becomes an opportunity extended.
THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS FOR OPPORTUNITY TO MULTIPLY.
Recognition & Honors
Selected recognition for leadership, service, innovation, and impact.
Honored by the Kansas City Kansas School Foundation for Excellence — a distinction celebrating outstanding alumni who uplift their communities and demonstrate what is possible. Kimberly, a Sumner Academy Class of 1999 graduate, was recognized for her entrepreneurial leadership, public service, and commitment to building pathways for the next generation.
View AwardRecognized by Central Exchange as a 2026 Stemmy Award honoree — celebrating women making exceptional contributions at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. A testament to Kimberly's work advancing data-driven leadership, workforce development, and equitable access to technology through the DeWitt Global portfolio.
View AwardSpeaking & Media
Kimberly DeWitt speaks from the intersection of leadership, connection, transformation, entrepreneurship, technology, and impact.
Her perspective has been shaped by building businesses, creating new organizational functions, leading transformation across public and private environments, working across borders, and repeatedly stepping into spaces where the blueprint was unfinished—or did not yet exist.
Her conversations challenge audiences to look beyond what is, examine what could be, and consider what they are willing to connect, build, or challenge to get there.
Kimberly is available for keynotes, executive conversations, panels, workshops, facilitation, podcasts, media commentary, and moderated discussions.
Featured Speaking
Ideas matter most when they move beyond the page and into the room. Kimberly brings her experience as a builder, strategist, executive, and connector to conversations that challenge assumptions, translate complexity, and help people see new possibilities. Her engagements span keynotes, presentations, panels, moderated discussions, and collaborative learning experiences.
June 24, 2025
Keynote Address
A keynote delivered at the inaugural Kansas DataSphere Summit, bringing together ideas around data, leadership, connection, transformation, and the possibilities created when organizations begin treating data as a shared strategic asset.
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May 15, 2026
Collaboration Across Borders
A cross-sector conversation exploring how government and industry leaders can break down silos, share data responsibly, align missions and resources, and build partnerships capable of addressing complex challenges at scale.
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2025
The Impact of AI on the Work of the Commission
A workshop presentation for the Kansas Sentencing Commission focused on translating complex data, technology, and organizational considerations into practical discussion for a specialized public-sector audience.
Watch the PresentationConversations kimberly Brings to the Room
Ways to Engage
From the main stage to the strategy table, Kimberly adapts the conversation to the audience and the moment—bringing curiosity, candor, practical experience, and a willingness to challenge conventional thinking.
Looking for a speaker who can connect the dots—and challenge the room to do something with what they see?
Whether you’re building a stage, a strategy session, or a conversation that needs a different perspective, Kimberly welcomes opportunities to challenge assumptions, connect ideas, and help audiences imagine what could come next.
For speaking inquiries, partnership discussions, or media requests — reach out directly.
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