KB Solutions, LLC

A successful strategy reflects an organization’s unique mission, characteristics and circumstances. It recognizes its market opportunities, threats, competitive environment, available resources and capacity for change. And it creates a clear, realistic plan for achieving its short and long term goals - a plan the organization can realistically navigate and align around to drive results.

KBS partners with key leaders throughout the process across plan development; operations, IT, systems and capacity impact analysis; expense and investment projections; change management, internal communications and buy-in messaging; execution logistics and tracking; outcome and results measurement.

Strategic engagement representations.

• Developing or refreshing enterprise and business strategies
• Identifying new markets, products, services and revenue opportunities
• Commercializing innovations and emerging technologies
• Leveraging strengths, service lines, or differentiation
• Strengthening pricing, product positioning, marketing and sales strategies
• Improving market penetration, sales and distribution
• Identifying capability or resource gaps and partners to address them
• Assessing competitive opportunities, barriers and risks
• Aligning resources and investments with strategic priorities and constraints
• Navigating and leveraging regulatory and market changes.

KBS can support organizations across key leadership areas to address gaps, drive growth, exceed operational goals and build a high-performing culture.

Transformation representations.

• Leadership team alignment and development
• Organizational structure and operating-model design
• Mission, vision, goals and related messaging
• Employee communications and organizational engagement
• Organizational prioritization, productivity, and accountability
• Executive advisory support

Sometimes organizations need experienced leadership to move an important initiative forward, solve a complex problem or capture an emerging opportunity.

Critical initiative representations

• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies
• Support M&A strategy, partner selection, negotiations and contracting
• Prepare for significant regulatory changes
• Respond to competitor actions or market changes
• Step into or support functional leadership during critical transitions.

• Founded and scaled a national division to $10 billion and 1.3+ million customers within a Fortune 100 company.
• Led five regional performance turnarounds across commercial and government markets.
• Grew a Northeast region from 23% to 43% of total company membership, revenue and earnings.
• Increased earnings 65%+ while transforming growth in an underperforming commercial region, following a $2 billion acquisition.
• Built sales & client management teams, redesigned promotional messaging, launched CRM systems, and brought new products to market to far exceed growth and earnings goals.
• Created a new market segment that generated 800,000+ new customers.
• Established a Federal Employee Health Benefits segment that generated 400,000+ new customers.
• Launched new product offering to meet market needs, generating 800,000 new customers.
• Helped a bioscience firm identify niches and bring its innovation to market.
• Supported a health system in modernizing its strategy to achieve revenue and earnings goals.

• Transformed organizational performance and employee morale following a $2 billion acquisition.
• Achieved top national employee-survey results for leadership, engagement and support for organizational strategy.
• Built and developed a national segment that achieved the company's highest growth performance.
• Increased organizational productivity five-fold in a complex government environment while achieving 90%+ of stretch goals.
• Implemented leadership development, accountability and executive coaching practices to strengthen organizational alignment and performance.
• Achieved employee satisfaction and organizational support scores 20%+ above statewide averages, while maintaining turnover below statewide benchmarks.

• Developed high-performing ACO-based network products that reduced market pricing by 14% and 8%, supporting entry into new markets.
• Doubled medical and behavioral health provider network access for government payer.
• Introduced an innovative prescriber tool that achieved 97% Preferred Drug List compliance and 67% provider adoption.
• Advanced value-based payment models across hospitals, primary care, pharmacy and maternity to encompass more than 50% of medical expenditures.
• Redesigned provider agreements and utilization-management strategies to strengthen access, accountability, quality and total cost of care.
• Developed hospital transparency reporting and consumer price-comparison tools associated with $3.7 billion hospital impact.
• Redesigned utilization and claims-trend analytics to improve executive decision-making and resource prioritization.

• Led large-scale stakeholder forums addressing significant healthcare, fiscal and market changes.
• Built collaborative relationships across healthcare organizations, regulators, industry leaders and other stakeholders.
• Led the passage of numerous legislative initiatives, driving healthcare affordability across hospital, care, prescription drugs and value-based payment models.
• Represented organizations through extensive television, radio, press and industry engagements.
• Built alignment among diverse stakeholders to advance organizational priorities and navigate periods of significant change.
• Facilitated collaborative relationships with federal leadership through macro-environmental changes to achieve shared goals.

Sample Speaking & Industry Leadership Engagements

• Host & Presenter at State Department Webinar on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R. 1)
• Host & Presenter at Hospital Transparency & Rural Transformation Webinar
• Host & Presenter at Medicaid Innovation, Sustainability and Opportunities Webinar
• Health Care Policy & Financing Annual Stakeholder Webinar
• Panelist at Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Leadership Conference
• Keynote & Panelist at the State of Reform Conference
• Keynote & Panelist at the PrimeHealth Innovation Summit
• Keynote at Quality Health Network (QHN) Healthier Together Summit
• Formal Discussion with CMS Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, at Nat'l Governors Association Mtg
• Numerous Health and Human Services (HHS) National Secretaries Top Issues Meetings
• Presenter at the Colorado Rural Health Center Conference
• Kick-Off Keynote at Food as Medicine Conference
• Presenter at Community Mental Health Centers Leadership Meeting
• Kick-Off Presenter at Hospital Transformation Program Symposium

Contact Kim at BimesteferK@gmail.com if you would like her to speak at your event.

Kim Bimestefer's leadership and contributions to business, government and healthcare have been recognized throughout her career.

• 2026 & 2025, Colorado Titan 100 Leadership Award
• 2019, Appointed by Gov. Polis to Cabinet & CEO Health First Colorado
• 2018, Appointed by Gov. Hickenlooper to Cabinet & CEO Health First Colorado
• 2016, Forbes, Western Region Outstanding Women Leaders
• 2016, Colorado's 25 Most Powerful Women In Business, Colorado Women's Chamber
• 2015, Outstanding Women in Business, Healthcare Winner, Denver Business Journal
• 2015, Women of Distinction, Girl Scouts of America