Marina Kim
Marina Kim is a culture strategist and trusted advisor to visionary leaders, helping startups, philanthropists, and social impact organizations build high-trust, high-performance teams. She specializes in creating cultures of purpose, fostering psychological safety for innovation, and leveraging intergenerational wisdom for strategic growth.
A life history interview specialist, Marina works with Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs and a global leader in social innovation, to identify world-changing changemakers. Through in-depth interviews, she uncovers the key influences that shaped their entrepreneurial life path.
She recently served as a Culture Strategist for Adyton, a venture-backed startup led by military veterans that develops software solutions for the DoD. In this role, she worked to cultivate a high-performance team culture aligned with the company’s mission of serving those who serve.
She is a Board Member at CoGenerate, where she champions cross-generational collaboration to tackle society’s most pressing challenges. She also contributes to the Paradigm Project Working Group, helping reimagine higher education as a more holistic and inclusive space.
Her career began as a student leader at Stanford, and she then co-founded and scaled Ashoka U, building a global network of hundreds of colleges and universities committed to social impact. Recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for Social Entrepreneurship, Marina was awarded the Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy from Stanford University and named an Honorary Fellow of the University of Northampton. She holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University.
Marina believes that purpose-driven cultures and intergenerational wisdom are key to solving today’s most complex challenges and she is dedicated to helping leaders and teams bring these principles to life.