iTTU Mentor

Kim Walker

Functional Expertise

• Business Strategy

• Arts Management

Industry Expertise

• Performance Arts

• Business Coaching

• Strategic Leaderships

Kim Walker, is Professor of Music and Arts Entrepreneurship, at TTU. Prior to joining TTU she served as a White House consultant, Dean and Principal of the Sydney Conservatorium at the University of Sydney, former Director of Arts & Cultural Outreach at Indiana University. She is Founder of VirtuosoCEO, a global executive business coaching company where 92% of her clients 10Xed using her XPS Formula. Professor Walker taught for eight years, the Science of Strategy and the Art of Leadership as part of the Global EMBA program at the University of Sydney. The Virtuoso Factor speaker and author, she's also a celebrated recording artist with 33 CDs performing as soloist on 6 continents. In 1985 she was the first female principal bassoon in the London Symphony working with Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Sir Simon Rattle to name just a few. In recent years Kim continues to perform, and is a Senior Executive Coach for Mindvalley. She is an international best-selling author for her Resilience to Brilliance published in 2015 and Inspire: Creative Collisions in Music, Politics and Life 2020.