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To help each person or organization reach their potential and become successful.

Accelerate Successfully was founded on the premise that entrepreneurs and executives need support and guidance. We help leaders connect and, through innovation and confidence, achieve their own definition of success.

Why Work with Us?

Creating and growing a business requires subjecting your goals and vision to the realities of an ever-changing world and market. While the mission to grow is clear, it is not always clear how to bring your organization and leadership skills to the next level. 

Accelerate Successfully represents decades of experience growing businesses in all types of markets and climates. We make that expertise available to business owners and entrepreneurs through strategic planning and immediate support to help you overcome obstacles, anticipate challenges, and develop the team, skills, and mindset to become–and remain–a leader in your field. Accelerate Successfully platform is based on proven results. 

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Kim Kleeman

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Dan Gershenson

MARKETING COACH

Dan Gershenson is the secret weapon for service-based businesses that strongly desire insightful brand strategies and powerful content that resonates with their customers. That’s where Dan and his team at Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing come in, providing the kind of brand strategy and custom content that audiences crave, where they crave it most. Blogs. eNewsletters. Social media. eBooks and White Papers. If it can be written, Dan can tell the brand story on your behalf. And as a Master Consultant with the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network, he uses a system that’s proven to deliver clarity, consistency, confidence and customers. Visit Caliber’s website at HighCaliberBranding.com or email Dan at Dan@HighCaliberBranding.com.

Kim Kleeman​

SUCCESS COACH + FOUNDER

Kim Kleeman is a nationally-renowned business growth coach, speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations lead the field and scale rapidly in competitive markets. Kim has launched various brands, products, and organizations with growth-oriented clients. Her track record includes recognition by Top Women in Digital Marketing, Chicago Crain’s 40 Under 40, and landing her first company on the Inc. 500 list (#5 in Education).

She is co-founder of The Inner Circle, a B2B community of CEOs, professionals, and trusted advisors who come together to grow their businesses through intentional networking.

Tami Palmer

CAREER + LIFE COACH

greyzone’s Founder, Tami Palmer has worked in the staffing and human resources management industries for over 15 years and in 2013 started greyzone, a Job Search Coaching and Career Advisement business. Tami has served on the boards of several Human Resources and Recruiting organizations, and donated countless hours of volunteer time providing job search advice to college students, displaced workers and immigrant populations. Tami is valued for her intuition, knowledge and creative thinking (she’s even a fiction writer). She blogs regularly on job search and career guidance topics. Tami is passionate about the power of words and guiding people to have authentic, empowered conversations.

Dan Gershenson

MARKETING COACH

Dan Gershenson is the secret weapon for service-based businesses that strongly desire insightful brand strategies and powerful content that resonates with their customers. From management consultants and manufacturers to technology companies and investment firms, these businesses with a complex sale to make have a hard time conveying their thought leadership to the outside world – a world that demands language in compelling and persuasive plain English. Not industry jargon. That’s where Dan and his team at Caliber Brand Strategy + Content Marketing come in, providing the kind of brand strategy and custom content that audiences crave, where they crave it most. Blogs. eNewsletters. Social media. eBooks and White Papers. If it can be written, Dan can tell the brand story on your behalf. And as a Master Consultant with the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network, he uses a system that’s proven to deliver clarity, consistency, confidence and customers. In 2019, Dan co-authored “Content Marketing for Local Search: Create Content That Google Loves & Prospects Devour,” a book that reached #1 on Amazon in the Marketing category and has been called “the best guide ever for how to use smart content to win the all-important search engine contest.” Visit Caliber’s website at HighCaliberBranding.com or email Dan at Dan@HighCaliberBranding.com.

Tami Palmer

CAREER + LIFE COACH

greyzone’s Founder, Tami Palmer has worked in the staffing and human resources management industries for over 15 years and in 2013 started greyzone, a Job Search Coaching and Career Advisement business. Tami has served on the boards of several Human Resources and Recruiting organizations, and donated countless hours of volunteer time providing job search advice to college students, displaced workers and immigrant populations. Tami is valued for her intuition, knowledge and creative thinking (she’s even a fiction writer). She blogs regularly on job search and career guidance topics. Tami is passionate about the power of words and guiding people to have authentic, empowered conversations.

Kim Kleeman​

SUCCESS COACH + FOUNDER

Kim Kleeman is a nationally-renowned business growth coach, speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations lead the field and scale rapidly in competitive markets. Kim has launched various brands, products, and organizations with growth-oriented clients. Her track record includes recognition by Top Women in Digital Marketing, Chicago Crain’s 40 Under 40, and landing her first company on the Inc. 500 list (#5 in Education).

She speaks regularly on leadership, sales, and business growth. A master of the pivot in her own life, Kim specializes in honing in on the unique opportunities inherent within challenges and seasons of transition to increase success and bring dreams to fruition. Her Accelerate Successfully Program is proven to create vision, improve leadership, and generate growth for organizations, whether they are at the pre-funding stage or have a $150 million valuation. 

She is co-founder of The Inner Circle, a B2B community of CEOs, professionals, and trusted advisors who come together to grow their businesses through intentional networking.

Kim is a natural connector, frequently found talking to someone new. She loves hearing people’s stories and sharing life experiences. She resides in the Chicagoland area with her husband of 23 years and their 3 awesome children.