Hoh Kim, Ph.D.
Senior leaders and C-suite executives across six continents work with Hoh as an Executive Sounding Board and Strategic Listener. His mission is to help clients ask better questions to make better decisions. He uniquely brings the craftsman’s discipline of a woodworker and the creative vision of a gallery artist – having held two solo exhibitions (‘Adult’ in 2023 and ‘Obituary’ in 2024) – to his role.
Drawing on over 25 years of executive coaching and consulting experience, Hoh guides his clients to find their most persuasive voices. As a former Managing Director at Edelman, he led the Korean office to record revenues from 2004 to 2007, winning the network’s “Office of the Year.”
A highly sought-after executive communication coach, he draws from wisdom gathered at universities in Korea, Europe, and the United States. Armed with a Ph.D. from KAIST, his pioneering research has been published in peer-review journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and key textbooks in strategic communications such as The Handbook of Crisis Communication and Reputation Management. In Korea, he authored 6 books and co-authored 2 books. One of his steady sellers in Korea From Office Worker to Professional Worker was translated in Taiwan and Vietnam, and his TED-style Youtube video has garnered over 1.4 million views.
Hoh is the first and only Korean Cialdini Method Certified Trainer. World-renowned persuasion science expert Dr. Robert Cialdini says: "He has given me confidence that... he will perform at the highest levels. His intelligence and conscientiousness assure it."
Hoh is also one of the few Team Management Profile (TMP) Master Trainer by Team Management Systems and Certified Practitioner for *The Empowerment Dynamic (TED*) by the Center for Empowerment Dynamic.
Living his WALA (Work-And-Live-Anywhere) lifestyle, he crafted Becoming a Self-Differentiated Leader in his Seoul woodshop and on global journeys from Boston to Nova Scotia, Sydney to Tasmania, and Hakodate to Kanazawa. In this book, he collaborated with Patricia and Stephen to distill his multi-disciplinary expertise into a practical blueprint, providing the exact tools you need to rewrite your internal operating system and transform workplace friction into enduring influence.
Learn more about Hoh Kim on his website at: Thelabh.com/WORK-WITH-HOH