Fitting Your Job to Your Life
We talk about Work/Life Balance with a woman actually making it happen–Kim Kleeman, Founder and CEO of Shakespeare Squared. Kim is known not only for her tremendous success as a young entrepreneur in the educational publishing industry, but also as a business leader and mother who advocates work/life balance for herself and her staff. Her company is featured on www.babiesatwork.org and was named a Working Mother 25 Best Small Companies in 2007.
Kim’s belief is that life is more than work: “It has always been my belief that it is possible to fulfill my professional goals in the education world while simultaneously preserving relationships with my family, with my staff, and with my friends. Our company has grown more than 800% over the last three years and continues to grow bigger and faster. To me, all this success means nothing unless I can share it with the people that mean the most.”
Kim is a former classroom teacher and she and her company have received multiple accolades, including the Inc. 5000 (the company was ranked No. 5 in Education, No. 329 overall), Business Ledger’s 8th Annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards Honoree in the “Today’s Young Entrepreneur” category, and Best Places to Work in Illinois. Kim and Shakespeare Squared have been featured in Inc. magazine, Entrepreneur, Crain’s Chicago Business, MSNBC, Ladies Who Launch, and Working Mother, to name a few.
Listen and learn how you can have this in your life.
