Kim Kastner🇺🇸
Fractional Product Leader | Product Coach & Consultant at Product Gold
About Kim Kastner
Fractional Product Leader | Product Coach & Consultant at Product Gold
As a Product Leader, I turn ambitious ideas into market-leading solutions, excelling at navigating complexity and uncovering elegant, simple solutions that drive real impact and value. Over 18 years of experience, blending strategic oversight with a deep understanding of market dynamics, my approach has resulted in innovative products and long-term resilience and competitiveness for EdTech and Mental Health Tech companies, Scholastic, Pearson, and SimplePractice.
✅ Led a startup division, driving the strategy and financial success of Pearson’s digital learning applications product portfolio, which enabled competitiveness and unlocked new business opportunities amid COVID-19 pandemic.
✅ Led the successful rebrand and rebuild of Learning Catalytics into Live Response at Pearson. Directed the creation and lifecycle management of an advanced SaaS-based learning management system for Scholastic.
Expertise
What mentees say
“Kim has been an expert and a true professional in every aspect we were looking for. She has helped us a lot throughout the whole process and really made a difference. We would definitely recommend her”
“Kim helped me figure out my problems and offered great advice on improvements. She was very spot-on and the session was very productive!”
“Kim brought such warmth and genuine kindness to our session that made it easy to open up about my career challenges. I left the session with a much clearer sense of where I want to go and the confidence to get there. I can't recommend Kim highly enough!”