Making key connections for resilient growth
Kiya delivers Packages for Transformation, Engagement, and Resilience Impacts through Stakeholder Engagement, Enterprise, Ecosystem, and Product Development, as well as Risk Management (Sustainability / Climate)
Kiya Kersh guides desired impacts into reality by amplifying what’s possible, weaving transformative models and insights from throughout industry, biochemistry & engineering, market research, product & process development, and best practices for growth — hence engagement — with a systems approach to ecological, entrepreneurial, and social value creation for people, planet, and prosperity — to create catalytic value: the assets and know-how that keep evolving and growing for exponential organizations and visionaries.
previously
emerging technology analyst / market & commercialization strategist
food processing/regulated operations manager
market developer / business development / engagement & transformation agent
quality assurance / continuous improvement catalyst
sustainable ingredients product Developer (CPG & personal care, sustainable ingredients)
bioproducts & Analytical Chemist
enabling steady, observable, & ongoing improvement
Supporting Entrepreneur & Enterprise, to Engage Planet-Scale Emerging Opportunities Mindfully & Knowledgeably
Our toolkit we use for you draws from studies that range from massage school to deserts and festivals and health clinics. Kiya mindfully employs and shares lenses and frameworks such as memetics, biochemistry & molecular biology to marketing automation to compliance automation expertise to intellectual property and M&A strategy.
Kiya works with visionary, active leaders with exceptional integrity to get things done for people, planet, and prosperity.
Kiya enables identifying and transforming the things that must be changed, building on what’s working — by demonstrating & instilling transformative Tools for awareness, team, and triple bottom line.
Kiya uses a simple approach, inspired by Design Thinking:
1, Kiya listens. And taps deep expertise and network resources.
2, Kiya develops options, impacts, and plans — from financial, operational, market, and risk perspectives.
3, Kiya realizes measurable outcomes using a variety of practical, robust approaches.
weaving technologies, developers, and end-user satisfaction
emerging technology commercialization consultant +
biochemist and synthetic biologist =>
Kiya Kersh evolves the big picture by getting into the technical, operational, & financial knitty-gritty
Today, Kiya concentrates on bringing solutions to market to address the planet emergency, building on science and business consulting successes and training. Kiya applies management consulting best practices approaches to life- and world-changing solutions relevant in the market that make use of technical, leading-edge, and derisked biotech and digital innovations.
Masters degree and subsequent industrial work involved synbio engineering for fermentation of isobutanol and butanol from biomass, using low-value products from bioprocesses in ways that are carbon and redox balanced.
Competent, accomplished technology developer and bioengineer — trained at Pomona College in the same department that created QSAR and inspired the discoverer of CRISPR to study RNA, and which inspired Kiya to study applied evolution, leading to being an early employee at Frances Arnold’s biofuels / biochemicals / Sustainable Aviation Fuel startup Gevo. Kiya’s undergraduate work focused on the structure & function of RNA and the ribosome, applied evolution, catalytic nucleic acids, as well as mechanisms of evolution / chemical origins of life.
