{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"🙌🏻 Miroo Kim 🙏🏻","label":"Author","image":"https://saywise-production-profilepicturestoragebucket-kbfooccc.s3.amazonaws.com/profile-pictures/8e0caece-ea6e-4db3-b245-ddddbf24425c/linkedin-1784147649540.jpg","summary":"Miroo Kim is a change maker for systemic wellbeing in organizations. In her 20 years of career at Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft, she loved bringing meaningful impact to people through the latest technologies. Ironically in this process, Miroo discovered that the best technology was already inside us - the human mind. But she also learned that we neither use it well nor take care of it. Recovering from burnout and depression, Miroo learned that the healthy human mind is the foundation to achieving individual dreams and business goals. This led her to found People+Culture, the coaching company that develops leaders and organizations with the culture of wellbeing. As a founder and CEO of People+Culture, Miroo helps leaders and workplaces build the culture of wellbeing so that they can achieve their dreams and business goals sustainably. As an experienced coach, facilitator, and trainer, Miroo offers effective workshops and training for organizational mindfulness, emotional intelligence (Search Inside Yourself™), resilience, and compassion & belonging (Compassion Cultivation Training™). More than 3,000 people and 100 teams participated in Miroo’s training and workshops at various tech companies such as Autodesk, AWS, and Meta and many startups globally find it effective with increased meaning and clarity. Through her upcoming book, <The Placeholder>, Miroo is excited about coaching high performing individuals to reinvent their career grounded in the culture of wellbeing. You can engage with Miroo for: 🎙️ Keynote 👩🏻‍🏫Workshops/Training Facilitation 💪🏻Coaching ✅ Consulting 📆Want to chat with Miroo? https://www.peopleculture.co/contact 🤓Interested in learning about People+Culture work? https://www.peopleculture.co","location":{"city":"San Francisco, CA, United States"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"mirookim","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/mirookim"}]},"meta":{"canonical":"https://saywise.com/mirookim","version":"v1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-07-15T20:34:12.040Z"},"x_saywise":{"handle":"mirookim","slug":null,"isPrimary":true,"pronouns":null,"availability":null,"oneLiner":"Miroo Kim is a change maker for systemic wellbeing in organizations. In her 20 years of career at Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft, she loved bringing meaningful impact to people through the latest technologies. Ironically in this process, Miroo discovered that the best technology was already inside us - the human mind. But she also learned that we neither use it well nor take care of it. Recovering from burnout and depression, Miroo learned that the healthy human mind is the foundation to achieving individual dreams and business goals. This led her to found People+Culture, the coaching company that develops leaders and organizations with the culture of wellbeing. As a founder and CEO of People+Culture, Miroo helps leaders and workplaces build the culture of wellbeing so that they can achieve their dreams and business goals sustainably. As an experienced coach, facilitator, and trainer, Miroo offers effective workshops and training for organizational mindfulness, emotional intelligence (Search Inside Yourself™), resilience, and compassion & belonging (Compassion Cultivation Training™). More than 3,000 people and 100 teams participated in Miroo’s training and workshops at various tech companies such as Autodesk, AWS, and Meta and many startups globally find it effective with increased meaning and clarity. Through her upcoming book, <The Placeholder>, Miroo is excited about coaching high performing individuals to reinvent their career grounded in the culture of wellbeing. You can engage with Miroo for: 🎙️ Keynote 👩🏻‍🏫Workshops/Training Facilitation 💪🏻Coaching ✅ Consulting 📆Want to chat with Miroo? https://www.peopleculture.co/contact 🤓Interested in learning about People+Culture work? https://www.peopleculture.co","profileUrl":"https://saywise.com/mirookim","markdownUrl":"https://saywise.com/mirookim/profile.md","pdfUrl":"https://saywise.com/mirookim/resume.pdf"},"work":[{"name":"People+Culture","position":"CEO & Founder","location":"San Francisco, California, United States","startDate":"2022-09-01","summary":"You can't force culture; but you can grow it. People+Culture helps leaders and workplaces of the startup companies and tech firms build the culture of wellbeing so both people and businesses can grow together sustainably. Through 1:1 coaching, team coaching, workshops and training, we help you cultivate emotional intelligence, resilience, and psychological safety for yourself and your organization."},{"name":"SAN FRANCISCO INSIGHT MEDITATION COMMUNITY","position":"Board Member","location":"San Francisco, California, United States","startDate":"2019-08-01","endDate":"2024-05-01"},{"name":"Compassion Institute","position":"Compassion Cultivation Training Certified Teacher","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","startDate":"2019-05-01","endDate":"2023-09-01","summary":"Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8-week educational program designed to help you improve your resilience and feel more connected to others—ultimately providing an overall sense of well-being. The CCT course, developed by a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers at Stanford University, combines traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research on compassion. Preliminary research suggests that CCT and similar programs can increase self-compassion and self-care, and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Through instruction, daily meditation, mindfulness, and in-class interaction, you can strengthen the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness. Classes meet weekly for 2 hours and daily guided meditation home practice is assigned. Learn how to train your mind to intentionally choose compassionate thoughts and actions and develop skills that help you relate to others—and yourself."},{"name":"Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI)","position":"Search Inside Yourself Certified Teacher","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","startDate":"2019-04-01","summary":"Search Inside Yourself guides participants through a 2-day, retreat-like experience that combines emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and neuroscience to offer participants tools to bring out their best and most effective self. Through a combination of content and experiential exercises, the program helps people make real changes in their professional and personal life. More specifically, this hands-on course helps people become effective communicators, improve their decision-making skills, increase their resilience, and think more creatively."},{"name":"Meta","position":"Internal Mindfulness Community Leader & Trainer","url":"https://meta.com","startDate":"2017-10-01","endDate":"2022-09-01","summary":"Mission: Cultivate the emotional intelligence and organizational well-being for the internal community at FB • Search Inside Yourself ™: Facilitated Search Inside Yourself Leadership training 17 times for ~300 employees at Facebook, reducing the stress level (-45%) and increasing the level of empathy within teams (+35%). • Compassion Cultivation Training ™: Facilitated ~100 hours of Compassion Cultivation training for employees at FB, receiving positive & extremely positive feedback from 85% of participants • Leader of Mindfulness@FB: Lead the internal mindfulness community since 2018 for various mindfulness programs (e.g. daily meditation, training, speaker series, book clubs, etc.) for the global internal employee community at Facebook"},{"name":"Meta","position":"Program Lead, Mobile & Connectivity Partnership","location":"Menlo Park, CA, USA","url":"https://meta.com","startDate":"2013-06-01","endDate":"2022-09-01","summary":"Mission: Provide the first mobile experiences via Facebook to under-connected people through sustainable partnership with mobile network operators. • Strategic Planning & Operation: Lead all aspects of the mobile partnership programs throughout the entire lifecycle, contributing to ~225M incremental Monthly Active Users growth since 2015 with ~90 partners across 5 programs. Works include setting and driving the value proposition and goals for each program, implementing the program launches through scalable Go-to-Market processes, sustainable management throughout each program cycle through systems, and conflict resolutions with partner escalations. • Business Development: Lead as a thought partner and internal consultant to all partner managers in developing business cases and managing partner pipelines in each program. Launched and managed 28 internet.org cases, driving growth by 25M Monthly Active People in Latin America between 2015-18. • Team Lead for Organizational Health: Lead facilitating the team conversations about culture of the team and well-being of team members in the Mobile & Connectivity Partnership team of 120 people, improving the team work-life balance by 25% in 2019. Works include team training, team offsite planning & management, and the biannual team health index analyses for the leadership."},{"name":"Apple","position":"Manager, New iPhone Operation Management","location":"Cupertino","url":"https://apple.com","startDate":"2010-07-01","endDate":"2013-05-01","summary":"Mission: Streamline the global execution of new iPhone introductions through efficient operations & systems • Supply Demand Management: Managed the global demand forecasting and supply optimization for three iPhone models (iPhone 4, 4S, 5) from launch throughout life cycle for all channels (Apple Online Store, Retail Store, Resellers and 200+ carriers) to meet Apple’s financial goal for iPhones (e.g. FY12: 125M unit sales or $81B revenue). Owned analytics, everyday operations, and contingency planning, in collaboration with cross-functional teams (sales, finance, industrial design, product marketing, engineering). • Analytics: Led weekly demand analysis and presented forecast & market opportunities to then-COO (Tim Cook) and SVPs of Operations of iPhone business in 100+ countries to determine the most optimal supply allocation to maximize customer satisfaction and sales globally. Managed analytic models and systems for new iPhone launches to evaluate demand sensitivity and market opportunities. • Recognition: Awarded as the “Best Planner” in 2012 by Operations SVP (Jeff Williams) for strong performance"},{"name":"Microsoft","position":"Product Marketing Manager - Windows Phone","location":"1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA","url":"https://microsoft.com","startDate":"2009-08-01","endDate":"2010-06-01","summary":"Mission: Re-position Windows Mobile strategy with successful Windows Phone 7 launch globally • Product Positioning: Worked with product management for Windows Phone 7 product positioning regarding Windows Phone 7 launch campaign based on the qualitative/quantitative user research analyses across 8 key markets. • Product Launch: Planned and executed the launch campaign for Windows Phone 7 announcement at Mobile World Congress 2010, managing 3 agencies for creative development & production $150M budget globally."},{"name":"Microsoft Corporation","position":"Product Marketing Intern | Windows Mobile","location":"1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA","url":"https://microsoft.com","startDate":"2008-06-01","endDate":"2008-08-01","summary":"- Developed and proposed the social media strategy for Windows Mobile core users by researching user retention issues."},{"name":"Apple","position":"Marketing Communication Manager","location":"Seoul, Seoul, South Korea","url":"https://apple.com","startDate":"2002-10-01","endDate":"2007-06-01","summary":"Mission: Bring the best product experience to people throughout the life cycle of the product • Brand Management: Led integrated marketing communications for various products (iPods, Macs, Mac OS and software), raising Apple brand awareness from 3% (2002) to 32% (2006) in Korean market. • Online Store Sales Strategy: Led cross-functional teams between Korea and Singapore to launch Apple Online Store in Korea, generating 150K visitors and surpassing the launch sales target by 55% on the day of launch. • Channel Management: Improved the in-store experience and stock management for 5 Apple reseller stores in major cities in Korea, increasing the revenue by $2.5M over 18 months. • Public Relations: Led press tours with Korean news media to MacWorld San Francisco from 2003 to 2007 to increase public awareness of Apple in Korean market; generated 200+ featured articles in major news media. • Developer Relations & Community Management: Led multiple local initiatives with Korean developers to improve Korean user experiences on Mac OS. • Recognition: Awarded as the “Most Valuable Player” in Apple Asia Pacific region by then COO Tim Cook for the efficient and creative marketing campaign management in Korea."}],"education":[{"institution":"Stanford University School of Medicine","studyType":"Compassion Cultivation Training Teacher Training by The Compassion Institute","startDate":"2018-01-01","endDate":"2019-01-01"},{"institution":"University of Cape Town","studyType":"Study Abroad in MBA","startDate":"2009-01-01","endDate":"2009-01-01"},{"institution":"Northwestern University - 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AI와 자동화로 기존의 직업 구조가 흔들리는 시대, 더 이상 정답은 외부에 존재하지 않는다. 『커리어 인큐베이터』는 말한다. 당신의 커리어는 발견하는 것이 아니라, 스스로 만들어가는 것이라고. 그리고 그 시작은 지금, 당신의 질문 하나에서 비롯된다고."},{"name":"The Placeholder","summary":"Nobody needs to be told how miserable working in a career that drains us is. However, despite so much effort that goes into the career change, we often discover ourselves in the same spot of depletion again, physically burned out, mentally disengaged, and emotionally unsatisfied. What are we doing wrong? What can we do to free ourselves from this perpetual sense of emptiness and live a more fulfilling work life? Welcome to The Placeholder The Place to Go to Create Your Noble Work. Rejecting the futile obsession with dedicating our life to a single career by “following our passion,” The Placeholder proposes three perspectives to try out for this highly experimental period in our career in order to create meaningful work. Through the Placeholder experience, we observe and discover what truly matters to us like an anthropologist, we become open to ideating boundless possibilities like a creative designer, and we come to experiment with ideas like a mad scientist. Through these actions in The Placeholder, we craft, develop, shape, define, and create our Noble Work, the career that is deeply meaningful to us. The Placeholder is not only a thought exercise but a sandbox we get to play in with practical tools. As we get our hands dirty, we will not only create a meaningful career we envision but cultivate the ultimate capacity to reinvent ourselves without difficulty toward the good life of congruence and fulfillment."}]}