After some time working with non-profits, Kimberly went back for her masters at ASU. During that time, fell in love with the university’s approach to education, innovation and social impact. She applied for a role in the Entrepreneurship + Innovation Unit at ASU, which seemed like a natural transition due to the parallels between the nonprofit and small business world challenges and approaches.

“With nonprofits, most of the solutions are more of a bandaid than addressing the fundamental issues. By working directly with businesses, I thought I’d be able to have more of a direct impact on the systemic issues our society is facing,” Kimberly said.

About a year ago, Kimberly was offered the role of Director of Entrepreneur Programs for the BBB in Phoenix. She shares how the BBB really embraces the startup approach to business with lots of iterating, testing and prototyping.

She also share some awesome educational and community engagement opportunities listeners should take advantage of!