Kimberly Harr is an Affiliate Practitioner with the Center for Effective Organizations at the USC Marshall School of Business. She brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, human resources, and organizational transformation in the semiconductor industry. Her work focuses on helping leaders translate business priorities into practical strategies for organization effectiveness, culture change, talent development, team performance, and sustainable execution.
During her career at Intel and Lam Research, Kim led complex, cross-functional initiatives in technically demanding global environments. She advised senior executives, guided enterprise-wide change, built and led high-performing teams, and designed systems and processes that strengthened organizational capability and delivered measurable business results. Her experience includes leading a company-wide redesign of performance management, supporting the launch and development of a 10,000-employee global engineering organization, advancing internal talent mobility, and facilitating large-scale process and culture transformations. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles in manufacturing, strategic capacity planning, supply management, and Lean Six Sigma, giving her a distinctive ability to connect people, organization, and operational performance.
Kim is the founder of Starr Leadership Group, where she works with executives and organizations on leadership development, team effectiveness, culture, and change. She is an ICF-credentialed Associate Certified Coach and a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Kim holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. Her community leadership has included board service with Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest and Solar for All, as well as service with the Society of Women Engineers Corporate Partnership Council.
