Soon-Mee Kim

Soon Mee Kim is executive vice president and Global Diversity and Inclusion Leader for Porter Novelli, an international public relations consultancy. A dreamer and a doer, Soon Mee drives purposeful action internally within the agency, as well as for a broad range of agency clients from startups to large enterprises. She is a proven leader and creative problem-solver with a passion for disruptive technologies, innovation, social impact, diversity and multicultural communications. Her forte is in uncovering and articulating the reasons why people should care about complex issues, systems and technologies. Formally and informally, her favorite roles are that of mentor, coach and student.



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