JOY COACH • POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE® COACH
CHANGE THE PATTERNS
THAT SHAPE YOUR LIFE
Move past the pressure of future planning, perfectionism, and stress. Build the mindset, confidence, and emotional fitness to move forward with greater clarity, balance, and joy.
20+ years of coaching, consulting, teaching, and leadership in the Ivy League
COACHING FOR REAL LIFE
You’re capable. But something still feels stuck.
You are highly successful. Yet you may find yourself caught in overthinking, self-doubt, or uncertainty about what comes next.
What We Focus On:
Breaking Unhelpful Cycles
Move from heads-down anxiety to intentional presence.
Silencing Overthinking
Overcome imposter syndrome and the pressure to perfect everything.
Reclaiming Balance
Transition from simply surviving your success to actually enjoying your life.
MEET KIM
Coaching that helps you change from the inside out.
I’m Kim Kenyon, an academic and leadership expert. My work in higher education gave me a close view of the demands people face as they teach, lead, study, research, and build their careers.
I saw how easily stress and self-doubt can become habitual responses to those demands.
You can be deeply committed to your work without being driven by anxiety or perfectionism.
As a Joy Coach and Positive Intelligence® Coach, I help clients build mental fitness, recognize the patterns that shape their responses, and develop more effective ways to navigate pressure and challenge.
BEST PLACE TO START
FREE SABOTEUR ASSESSMENT
Discover the mental patterns that may be creating stress, self-doubt, or holding you back.
Support designed for where you are right now.
WHY JOY?
Joy is meant to be part of our lives.
Joy is at the heart of my work. I believe you can care deeply, work hard, face difficult things, and experience joy at the same time.
We’ve come to accept that meaningful work means being under pressure, pushing through, and holding it all together. I don’t believe it has to be that way. My mission is to help people discover that achievement does not have to come at the cost of joy.
CLIENT STORIES
What clients are saying
I’ve spent years in traditional therapy trying to process my anxiety, but I could never quite get that monkey off my back. Working with Kim changed that. Instead of just talking about my stress, she gave me the psychological stamina and mental tools to quiet my mind. I feel freer and more capable than ever.
HIGHER EDUCATION DIRECTOR
I used to treat the tenure track like an endless treadmill where the speed kept increasing, but I couldn’t get off. Working with Kim finally broke that loop. She gave me the practical career strategy I needed, but more importantly, she helped me break away from the treadmill and find my joy again.
FACULTY MEMBER
Kim is like a modern version of Lucy from the comics, minus the pseudo-therapy. Her booth is always open, she doesn’t sugarcoat her insights, and she cuts straight through the noise. She helped me diagnose my mental blind spots in a way no one else could.
FACULTY MEMBER