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Kim Dabbs is a change agent and advocate who builds cultures of opportunity as the Global VP of Social Innovation and ESG strategy at Steelcase. She is leading organizational change projects around the world and has given talks on her specialties in social innovation cultural transformation and belonging at MIT the Aspen Institute the Drucker Forum and the Guggenheim. She has received numerous recognitions in the process including a Joyce Fellowship an executive residency at the d.school at Stanford and led a White House honored nonprofit organization that is a national best practice in both adult and teen learning models.Her personal experience and professional history of two decades creating leading and scaling cultures of belonging across multiple borders have given her unique insights into systemic change. As a Korean-born American adoptee currently residing in Munich Germany she is currently focused on her research and writing on Belonging. Her debut book on this topic launching in 2023 focuses on helping leaders and organizations with the tools to create cultures of belonging to create a more equitable and inclusive world.