Meet Keynote Speaker Kim Bolourtchi
Kim Bolourtchi is a transformational keynote speaker and bestselling author who helps leaders break the rules they’ve inherited and step into the clarity, presence, and truth that change everything.
Since then, Kim’s work has centered on bringing people back to the parts of themselves they’ve muted—clarity, truth, and the strength they’ve been conditioned to tone down. Her keynote, Strategic Unruliness™, has become a defining experience for leaders ready to stop performing their roles and start inhabiting their full power.
Kim’s presence is electric, embodied, and unmistakably real.
Her work happens beneath the surface- where real change takes hold.
When Kim steps into a room, people feel the shift.
For years, Kim built a life by doing everything “right” — excelling as a lawyer, professor, and executive partner — while keeping her most powerful gifts out of sight. By night, she was a competitive Latin dancer, alive in a world that made sense to her body, but had no place in her professional one.
She kept those worlds separate until the moment they collided — and revealed the truth that changed her career forever:
The parts of you that don’t fit the rules
are the ones that make the greatest impact.
Kim’s full story… (official bio below)
Meet Kim Bolourtchi
Keynote Speaker | Bestselling Author | Creator of Strategic Unruliness™
Kim Bolourtchi didn’t become a transformational keynote speaker by following the expected path.
She became one by breaking it.
For years, Kim lived a split identity:
a lawyer obsessed with excellence and achievement, and a Latin dancer alive in her creativity, expression, and fire.
She kept those worlds separate — certain that success demanded discipline, polish, and staying inside the lines.
But everything she thought she knew about leadership shifted the moment those worlds collided in front of the Missouri Supreme Court.
In that moment, Kim realized:
The rules she had followed so faithfully weren’t requirements — they were limits.
And the qualities she had been hiding — her embodiment, her energy, her clarity, her intuition — were not liabilities.
They were her differentiation.
From that realization came her signature philosophy and body of work:
Strategic Unruliness™ — the practice of breaking the rules that never belonged to you so you can lead with all of who you are.
Today, Kim speaks on stages across the country, helping leaders reclaim the clarity and presence they’ve muted under decades of conditioning. Her work goes far beyond motivation — she activates something deeper:
the truth beneath the performance.
Speaker Bio
Kim Bolourtchi is a transformational keynote speaker and bestselling author whose work helps leaders break the rules they’ve inherited, reclaim the truth they’ve been trained to suppress, and lead with the full force of who they are. Her signature philosophy, Strategic Unruliness™, is the foundation of her #1 international bestseller, Strategic Unruliness: Break the Rules. Build What’s Next.
A former attorney, strategic executive advisor, and top-rated professor of communication, Kim’s career spans the boardroom, the classroom, and the dance floor — a combination that uniquely positions her to teach leaders how to access clarity, presence, and embodied confidence in high-pressure environments. She is known for her electrifying keynote style: part insight, part activation, part reclamation. Audiences don’t just hear her message; they feel it.
Over the past two decades, Kim has guided hundreds of leaders and organizations through moments of profound transition and growth. Her work is grounded in the belief that extraordinary leadership begins not with strategy, but with identity — with the courage to lead from truth instead of conditioning. She has served as Director of Leadership and Professional Development for a Top 20 law school, built nationally recognized organizations, developed graduate-level curriculum in organizational leadership and communication, and coached executives across industries through major inflection points.
Kim is also the author of Truly Inspired: Secrets for Finding Extraordinary Success at Work and host of the Get Unruly podcast. A competitive Latin dancer and movement enthusiast, she integrates embodied practices into her keynotes to help audiences access confidence and presence at a level they’ve never experienced before.
When she’s not on stage, Kim can be found dancing, writing, hosting transformational retreats in Mexico, or spending time with her two children, Nick and Samantha, and her beloved doodles.
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