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Kim Spalding joins Spencer Stuart as a member of the firm’s Leadership Advisory Services

September 2025
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Kim Spalding

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 1, 2025 — Kim Spalding has joined Spencer Stuart as a member of its Leadership Advisory Services, building on her three decades of experience as a CEO, board member and product innovator. A sought-after counselor and expert at guiding executive development and performance, Spalding is known for driving growth, transformation and innovation across Fortune 500s and high-growth ventures.

At Starbucks, Spalding held multiple executive roles across product, technology and operations, including leading the coffee category and the $3B espresso beverage category and launching the Starbucks app and mobile payment. As a GM at Google, she led multi-billion-dollar business within emerging Google Ads segments, responsible for substantial campaign and revenue growth along with helping strengthen the global talent pipeline. Her earliest career experience was for consulting firms Andersen and McKinsey, where she first laid the foundation of organizational leadership and strategy.

At Spencer Stuart, Spalding will focus on the technology, consumer and retail sectors and will leverage her experience with an interactive approach to build strong partnerships with CEOs and directors driving disruption and growth.

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About Spencer Stuart

At Spencer Stuart, we know that leadership has never mattered more. We are trusted by organizations around the world to help them make the senior-level leadership decisions that have a lasting impact on their enterprises, on their stakeholders and the world around them. Through our executive search, board and leadership advisory services, we help build and enhance high-performing teams for select clients ranging from major multinationals to emerging companies to nonprofit institutions.

Privately held since 1956, we focus on delivering knowledge, insight and results through the collaborative efforts of a team of experts — now spanning more than 60 offices, over 30 countries and more than 50 practice specialties. Boards and leaders consistently turn to Spencer Stuart to help address their evolving leadership needs in areas such as senior-level executive search, board recruitment, board effectiveness, succession planning, in-depth senior management assessment, employee engagement and many other facets of culture and organizational effectiveness, particularly in the context of the changing stakeholder expectations of business today. For more information on Spencer Stuart, please visit www.spencerstuart.com.