Five/6teen Consulting

12/25/2025

As the year winds down, may you find moments of rest, grounding, and ease.

Wishing you a peaceful holiday season. 💗💚

10/17/2025

📣 New Newsletter Drop: But Really… How Are You?

In a time when the world feels heavy and headlines hit close to home, I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead with care. Not just the check-in at the top of a meeting—but the real, soul-deep kind. The kind that says, I see you. I feel it too. And you're not alone.

This edition of the Empowered Voices newsletter is for anyone navigating leadership, life, or just getting through the day in a season full of uncertainty. It's a love note to your tired self, a permission slip to pause, and a reminder that leadership doesn’t always mean fixing—it means feeling.

📝 Read “But Really… How Are You?”
💌 Come breathe with me, reflect, and return to what grounds you.

Because in times like these, care is the strategy.

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/really-how-you-kimberly-davis-ed-d--asboc

09/14/2025

✨ Three Years of Becoming. Three Years of Transformation. ✨

This month, Five/6teen Consulting celebrates its 3rd birthday — and as always, the number 3 continues to call me. Three years of growth, learning, and impact. Three years of walking alongside humans ready to step into their fullest selves. Three years of building toward this moment.

As we cross this milestone, we are embracing our next evolution — a metamorphosis. 🌿

Five/6teen now sits fully in an empowerment and uplifting space, working with those seeking to be cleansed, empowered, and grounded in the courage to live their boldest, most authentic lives.

In honor of this evolution, I’m unveiling our new logo and tagline:
“Where personal transformation and collective empowerment meet.”

This design carries the spirit of metamorphosis, breath, and release — symbolizing the tears we’ve shed, the resilience we’ve built, and the transformation that continues to unfold.

📣Here are a few ways we can collaborate in this new season:

✨Coaching services for individuals and groups
✨Public speaking engagements
✨Workshop facilitation and program partnerships

📩 If you’re ready to co-create transformation, let’s connect. Reach me at [email protected] or DM me to start the conversation.

And this is just the beginning — stay tuned in the coming weeks for new program launches and exciting announcements.

Here’s to three years, a new chapter, and everything yet to come.

09/09/2025

Three years. ✨

Three years of growth, impact, and transformation.

And now, as we celebrate our 3rd birthday, we’re stepping boldly into the next evolution of Five/6teen Consulting.

New energy. New vision. New logo… Coming Soon 🦋

09/09/2025

Change asks us to pause. To breathe. To release.

Five/6teen Consulting is evolving, and this new chapter carries the energy of metamorphosis, cleansing breath, and the quiet courage to begin again.

Stay close — the reveal is almost here.

09/07/2025

🦋 Something is shifting. 🦋

A breath. A becoming. A metamorphosis.

In a few days, we’ll unveil the next chapter of Five/6teen Consulting — an evolution rooted in empowerment, healing, and transformation.

Are you ready to become, too?

08/06/2025

🌱 Mentorship That Makes Space for You 🌱

Sometimes the professional development you really need isn’t another webinar or training—it’s someone who sees you clearly, listens deeply, and walks beside you as you find your own way forward.

That’s exactly the kind of space Keilah Johnson and I co-created through the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Chicago. In her words:
🗣️ “With Dr. Davis, I was able to have space with a brilliant mind to process my professional experience… She listened attentively, didn’t minimize my experiences, and grounded me in reality when needed. I feel affirmed in my values and leadership style.”

Keilah, THANK YOU for trusting me with your journey. Your insight, honesty, and heart-centered leadership are powerful, and it was a gift to witness your growth throughout this mentorship experience. Congratulations on all the hard work you’ve done—you’ve earned every bit of clarity and confidence that’s unfolding.

To anyone navigating a season of transition: you don’t have to do it alone. Whether you’re redefining your path, reconnecting with your purpose, or just trying to feel seen—mentorship matters. And it starts with giving yourself permission to invest in you.

06/26/2025

One of the perks of my role at Lake Forest College: NEW HEADSHOTS!!! And yes, I definitely repped my pink and green. 🩷💚

06/26/2025

“We live in anxiety and fear of our feelings, moods, desires, and emotions. In other words, we are culturally taught to fear life.” — Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Whew. This one hits deep.

So many of us have been conditioned to disconnect from our bodies—to intellectualize our pain, suppress our joy, and perform strength rather than feel it. But our bodies hold so much truth. They carry the residue of our lived experiences, yes, but they also carry our power, our wisdom, our capacity for liberation.

This is why I root my coaching practice in embodiment and empowerment. Not just because it’s trendy or therapeutic, but because it’s life-affirming. Because returning to the body is a radical act of self-care. Because feeling is not a weakness, it’s a way back to wholeness.

In every session, we hold space not just for goals and strategy, but for breath, for presence, for listening to what the body is trying to say. My clients are learning to trust themselves again—not just in thought, but in movement, sensation, stillness.

And I continue to do this work, too. I study it. Reflect on it. Practice it. Because this is more than a method. It’s a mission. A commitment to aliveness in a world that too often tells us to be numb.

Let this be your reminder: your body is not the problem. It’s part of the answer. 🩷

Ready to begin your own empowered and embodied journey? Reach out and let’s get started.

06/03/2025

Legacy isn’t later. It’s now.
It’s in how we show up.
In how we love.
In how we choose courage, even when comfort is calling.
It’s in the decisions we make when no one is watching—and in the ones that ripple forward for generations.

In this week’s edition of Empowered Voices, I reflect on what it means to live a legacy-driven life—not just for ourselves, but for the people who poured into us, the ones who walk alongside us now, and those who are still coming.

I’m thinking about my daughter, my father, my mother, my son. I’m thinking about the quiet sacrifices and the loud declarations, the passed-down wisdom and the hard-earned truths. I'm thinking about all of us who carry legacy in our bones and still dare to evolve what we’ve inherited.

✨ Legacy isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. ✨

Read the latest edition here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tending-your-legacy-now-kimberly-davis-ed-d--opofc]

Drop a comment in the chat—how are you tending to your legacy?

Legacy isn’t a far-off milestone. It’s not something we write in our retirement speeches or only whisper about in eulogies.