Dawn Kirk

BestU4Life founder Dawn S. Kirk has coached, trained, and developed more than 10,000 associates in Fortune 100 companies using her Heartbeat Leadership method. She has spent over 26 years working with #1 Consumer Packaged Good companies across sales, finance, marketing, operations, national accounts, and commercial. For sixteen of those years, she held senior executive positions with Frito-Lay, Inc. (PepsiCo) and The Coca-Cola Company, leading teams as large as 5,000 employees through organizational growth, transformations, and transitions. She has earned numerous awards, including Georgia’s 100 Most Powerful and Influential Women and was inducted into the VIP Woman of the Year Circle by the National Association of Professional Women. Dawn created BestU4Life to help corporate executives and their organizations take a People-First approach to unleash untapped potential and translate strategy into best-in-class execution. Dawn believes that people are the heartbeat of every business, and no matter what the problem is, it can be solved through people. Dawn lives with her husband of twenty-six years, Tony Kirk, and their two teenage sons, Kendall and Kristopher, near Atlanta, Georgia. She is actively involved in her church and contributes as a member of the church board.