Coaching - Kimya Glasgow

Level Up Business Coaching

Level Up Coaching is a business coaching service offered by Kimya Glasgow. Our focus is on one-to-one coaching for Creative Caribbean SMEs. We specialize in working with Creative women entrepreneurs in various fields. It’s our goal to create an environment for GROWTH and personal understanding. To SUPPORT our clients towards STRATEGICALLY setting and meeting their business GOALS. To guide our clients to GET UNSTUCK and to MOVE UP to the NEXT LEVEL.

Our clients are principally from the the Creative & Beauty Sector, including:-
Fashion, Literary Arts, Music, Theatre Arts, Architecture, Visual Art and Design, Handicrafts, Film, TV and Radio, Photography and Video, Culinary arts etc. We also advise SMEs in the Beauty & Fitness industry.

What is Business Coaching?

A business coach is like a mentor that can help business owners grow their business, working towards increasing their profits, and being highly successful. Business owners might have lots of ideas on how to take their business to the next level, but they might need to talk to someone who is objective and impartial about key ideas to make major changes to their business. That is where a business coach comes in.

Coaches don’t replace other business professionals in the business owners arsenal- they help the business owner strategically work with the tools and services that are available to them.

Coaches help business owners work through their ideas to find clarity and move forward.

Business coaching is most effective when those involved want to be practical and progressive, proactive rather than reactive. It is a powerful tool that can transform a company from just surviving to being highly successful. It can help to change the way processes flow within an organization or create an entirely new workplace culture.

Is Coaching for Me?

Do I have a business idea that I am having challenges in moving forward with?
Do I feel overwhelmed or unmotivated with my current business?
Am I feeling stuck?
Incomplete business or project plan? Uninspired marketing plan?
Is my business growing but I am concerned about whether or not I am making the right decisions?
Am I willing to commit to monthly one-on-one meetings with my coach and complete a short email update one per month?
Am I willing to attend a minimum of 3 1-hour webinars during the 6 month programme

Meet Our Coach - Kimya

Kimya has had a lifelong passion for helping people to get UNSTUCK and has always been known as the one who listens and gives intuitive and insightful advice to friends and colleagues.

She is the Founder and Creative Director of the Kimya Glasgow Brand, A true Caribbean native, she was born in St Vincent and the Grenadines, grew up in Trinidad & Tobago, and lived in both the British Virgin Islands and Barbados.

She holds an Associate Degree in Fashion Design.

She has won numerous grants and has been a beneficiary of several prestigious accelerator programmes. She has launched a number of lifestyle products including her fragrance – Kimya Glasgow Vanilla Orchid, making the Kimya Glasgow brand the first fashion house in the Caribbean to launch its own signature fragrance.

She is a 2009 Caribbean Fashion Awards winner, with awards for achievement in Design from Karib Nation Inc of Washington DC and Shabeau Magazine, and received a 2014 Influential Woman Award in St Vincent.

She has been Creative Director & Show Co-Producer behind SVG’s premier Fashion event – Fashion Caribbean.

A great believer in sharing knowledge, she has been a teacher, coach and consultant on several projects including skills development, through independent fashion introductory courses, classes under the SVG Adult Education Unit and hosting workshops, capacity development and consultations for Bequia Threadworks, a social enterprise garment manufacturing hub.

She has worked as a trainer and mentor for SMEs, social enterprises and as a panelist and project advisor for university students in entrepreneurship.

She has previously sat on the Board of the SVG Chamber of Industry and Commerce and currently serves on the Board of the National Cultural Foundation. She has also spearheaded the formation of the recently-formed Fashion Association of St Vincent & the Grenadines and holds the position of Board Secretary.

Her hobbies include reading, painting and drawing, DJing, writing poetry, fire spitting and watching classic British whodunits & detective stories.

Niyan Fraser Professor of Entrepreneurship & Social Entrepreneurship, Researcher, Business Development Consultant, and Prospective Spiritual Entrepreneur

Kimya is an incredible entrepreneur and mentor...Over the past two years, Kimya has been a mentor and an expert for my students, giving them valuable feedback and advice that has helped them to proceed with their business ideas. She is a person that I can always count on to be present and is always willing to participate as a mentor and guide. I highly recommend Kimya in a mentorship and teaching capacity.

Jessica Jaja General Manager, Bequia Threadworks Inc

Kimya is an outstanding and highly capable educator and facilitator, not only within the Fashion Industry but more broadly in terms of leadership and women's empowerment…She was hired as a consultant to improve our production processes as well as mentor and support our now Production Manager in further developing her leadership and managerial skills…..I could not recommend Kimya more!