Kim "Kimfer" Flanery-Rye

Personal Bio

Kim “Kimfer” Flanery-Rye (she/her) is a certified brain-based leadership coach passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion in social justice, and social impact along with women in business. She is the Founder of Inclusion Equals, a social enterprise focused on the IDEA: Inclusion = Diversity + Equity + Accessibility to build culture from the inside out, as well as the CEO of The FBomb Breakfast Club, a peer support community for women, femmes, and gentlethems who are company founders and business owners. Kimfer is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Creativity and Innovation for MBA students and has her MBA in Executive Leadership.

Kimfer speaks locally, nationally, and globally, including at the Bill and Melina Gate Foundation, and has most recently spoken at the 2022, 2023, and 2024 World Economic Forum regarding the importance of women on boards and what it means for women to have power, authority, and agency as well as DEI’s role in AI and the future of work.

In addition to her work, she has served on boards as the Board Chair and was the first DEI Chair for several organizations. Above all, she absolutely loves a creative mind, an artistic eye, and a wicked sense of style…in whatever form.