About
Experience, Excellence, Grace
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Delores Kimbrough is the founder of Kimbrough Consulting! She brings you deep listening, insightful questions, strategic focus, and encouragement on the journey! You will delight in customized service that meets your specific needs!
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As a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional, Delores helps organizations develop a climate of inclusion!
As an expert facilitator, Delores designs and facilitates group experiences for corporate, nonprofit, and higher education organizations!
Delores has worked with executive leaders, elected officials, and community leaders at all organizational levels.
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EDUCATION + CERTIFICATIONS
Summa Cum Laude graduate of Howard University
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Nonprofit Management graduate certificate, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Diversity and Inclusion, Cornell University
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Instructional Design, Association for Talent Development
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Facilitating Virtual Trainings, Association for Talent Development
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Organization Change Management certification, Prosci Institute
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Nonprofit Fund Development, University of Richmond
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Nonprofit Marketing, University of Richmond
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Nonprofit Grant Writing and Management, University of Richmond
CURRENT AND RECENT CLIENTS
Strategic Planning, The Longevity Project for a greater Richmond
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion dialogues and training, Virginia Community Capitol
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion dialogues and training, Richmond Region Tourism
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Student & faculty dialogues, VCU Inclusive Excellence
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Assessments for multiple nonprofits in the Pathways Program, a program of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence
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A consulting partner for ConsultCorps, a program of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence
What People Are Saying
It’s been a pleasure working with you … Your patience and persistence were just what we needed! You are so well organized, you made us be organized too. You are thoughtful, an outstanding listener, and you ask just the right questions to move the conversation and the work forward. It's not easy coming in on a project when the work is already in progress. But you came up to speed quickly and were able to contribute immediately. Then, much to all our surprise, just a few short weeks into the work, a curve ball came at us that caused us to pivot 180 degrees. Undaunted, you steered us through rocky terrain until we were on a new path. I feel so lucky that you were available to pick up the pieces and guide us through these past few months. You did so with grace and good humor and for that I am truly grateful!
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-- Dr. Susan Carkeek, Former Senior Advisor to the President
Virginia Commonwealth University
It is a challenge to sift through the list of superlatives that come to mind as I reflect on my experiences working with Delores Kimbrough. Delores encouraged us to reach high, dig deep, to cast an inclusive net and to pause, always to pause, in our efforts to build a better community. Her thorough and thoughtful work helped us to refresh our mission and create goals that will carry us forward in a way that is more planful and responsive to our community as we spark action to advance longevity.
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-- Dr. E. Ayn Welleford, The Longevity Project for a greater Richmond,
Associate Professor and Gerontologist for Community Voice,
VCU Department of Gerontology
