Kiku S.

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About Kiku S.

Executive, GTM & Technical Full Service Recruiting & Placement expert. Certified Coach. Business Development Leader. RE and Startup Investor & Advisor. Also known as Jackie and prefer middle name, Kiku (kee-koo): Executive and professional Search Consultant and Coach with 20+ years’ Business Development & Recruiting Leadership experience. Tapped to lead hiring searches and help create roles for difficult, highly specialized, executive, and inclusivity focused searches in Sales/GTM, IT/Engineering/AI, Finance/Accounting, and Risk/Security. Strategic connector of people and ideas, creating a collaborative and innovative business & philanthropic community. Inclusive feminist and champion of underrepresented groups who believes in positive change through allyship, not division. Focus on building teams for social impact and innovative high-growth companies who prioritize culture and diversity. As a Certified Coach, I guide women professionals to bring their authentic selves, fire, and passion to business and unleash their most powerful gifts, keeping us from burnout and over-functioning while empowering better leadership. My experience and challenges as an executive, record-holding Division 1 collegiate athlete, and entrepreneur fuel my intuitive and practical methodology, which focuses on integrating our whole selves, including masculine, feminine, spiritual practices, and intuition — to fulfill our purpose and passion. COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP (past and current): Focus on at-risk youth, education, and women in leadership: She's Independent Investments - Head of Partnerships, AHA Bring STEM to Life (for Girls)- Executive Leadership Team (current), Colorado Technology Association Women in Tech, Big Brothers Big Sisters of CO Governing Board, Co-Chair and founder of City Year Denver’s Associate Board, Founding member of the Women’s Initiative & Advisory Council of City Year, Mile High United Way’s ELC Council, Executive Committee of Minds Matter Denver, Colorado’s Finest Honoree, Mentor of students and young adults.