Signature Keynote:

"before + after"

There are moments in life that divide everything into before and after.

For Kim, that moment came when she lost her mother and her first child all within 90 days.  

Two devastating losses. 

Two people who represented the very beginning and continuation of her life.

And suddenly, the world she knew no longer made sense.

But this isn't a story about getting over grief.

It's a story about what happens when you stop trying to get back to the woman you were before—and begin learning how to live fully as the woman you are now.

In "Before + After", Kim takes audiences through the decades-long journey that followed her losses: motherhood without her own mother, building a successful career while carrying profound grief, creating a beautiful life while still feeling something was missing, and wrestling with the question so many women quietly carry:

“God, why? this isn't how my life was supposed to look.”

For Kim, the answer didn't come quickly.

But eventually, her faith changed the question.

Maybe God wasn't asking her to rebuild the life she lost.

Maybe He was asking her to let Him become the foundation for what came next.

This keynote is honest, deeply personal, hopeful, and practical. It doesn't offer easy answers or promise that grief simply disappears.

Instead, Kim offers women a different possibility:

What if you can grieve what you've lost—and still build a beautiful life?

Because loss doesn't always come in the form of death.

It can be divorce. An empty nest. A career that didn't turn out the way you hoped. A relationship that ended. A dream that never happened. A version of yourself you had to leave behind.

Whatever brought you to your “after,” the questions are the same:

What changed? What will I carry forward? What will I build on now?

Kim's message gives women a practical way to navigate the “after”—without pretending the loss didn't matter, and without believing their best days are behind them.

Because you can carry the love forward without leaving the person—or the life—behind.

And you can discover that the life after loss can still be filled with purpose, faith, joy, and hope.

Meet Kim

Kim Gerrity is a speaker, mom, entrepreneur, and longtime HR leader who knows firsthand that sometimes life doesn't turn out the way you thought it would—and that God can still build something beautiful from it.

For more than 25 years, Kim has led people and organizations through change, challenge, and complicated seasons. But the most important lessons she's learned didn't come from a boardroom.

They came from loss.

Kim lost her mother and her first child within three months. What followed was a decades-long journey of learning how to live in the “after”—becoming a mother without her own mother, building a successful career while carrying profound grief, and creating a beautiful life while still grieving the life she thought she was supposed to have.

Eventually, Kim's faith changed the question.

She stopped trying to get back to who she was before and began trusting God to build something new from where she was.

Today, she brings that hard-earned perspective to women who are navigating their own “after”—whether that comes from loss, divorce, an empty nest, a career change, a broken dream, or simply a life that looks different than they planned.

Her message is simple:

You don't have to go back to before. You can build from here.

And sometimes, God doesn't restore the foundation we lost.

He becomes the foundation.