Professional background and experience:

Kim Robinson is a Harvard-educated attorney and Fulbright Scholar with over two decades of international legal and leadership experience. She is a member of the California State Bar and a Certified Ethics Officer (Ethics Institute of South Africa), as well as an accredited mediator in both the UK and South Africa. Kim is the founder of Renaissance Strategic Solutions, where she provides legal services, ethics and anti-harassment training, strategic planning, and advisory support to both NGOs and creative professionals. She currently advises the Head of School at Kgololo Academy in Alexandra, Johannesburg, where she supports leadership strategy, local and international relationship building, and fundraising. Kim began her legal career at Morgan Lewis, where she co-led a successful case resulting in a $24 million judgement. She has also served as in-house legal counsel for U.S. Agency for International Development in Botswana and held leadership roles at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy and the Student Sponsorship Programme, a South African education trust. Her work spans multiple African countries, including Botswana, Eswatini, Mauritius, Namibia, Kenya, Ghana, and Egypt, where she has facilitated organisational development, compliance, and leadership training.

Mediation experience and style:

Kim mediates workplace and organisational disputes with a calm, impartial approach. Her sessions have clear ground rules, creating a space where participants feel both heard and respected, and she is very capable of maintaining dialogue in high-stakes and emotionally charged contexts. Kim ensures that parties feel safe to engage while keeping discussions focused and constructive.

Facilitation experience and style:

Kim has facilitated strategic planning and ethics training for schools, NGOs, architecture firms, advertising consultancies, US government agencies and international public health institutions. Her facilitation is adaptive and grounded, with an emphasis on clarity, inclusivity, and actionable outcomes. She draws on frameworks such as Peter Senge’s Five Disciplines to guide organisational learning and vision development.  

Comments from mediation clients:

"Everyone came away from the meeting feeling that real progress had been made and with the sense that this relationship could be salvaged."

"The session was very impactful as it assisted me to see things from a different perspective and understand [the other person's] side of the story. The session taught me the importance of asking for stories instead of assuming."

"You made me feel very comfortable and at ease. Just wanted to take a moment to express appreciation for your hard work, professionalism, and dedication to resolving the Parties' dispute. You were very helpful."

"You validated everyone's contributions, ensured that everyone had an opportunity to speak, and highlighted areas of consensus. You helped people to air their grievances but then focused the rest of the discussion on finding a way forward that everyone could embrace."