Kathi Rhea-Richards has the ability to engage the energy and soul of the clients she serves. She understands that a successful business leader not only motivates people but also inspires them. She possesses and uncanny knack for awakening and arousing the hearts of others, thus creating inspired colleagues, customers, suppliers and employees. Kathi truly enjoys inspiring the business community and helping people realize their potential, because she knows that the best way to predict the future is to create it!
Leaving behind a successful career in the ultra-competitive and highly demanding cosmetics industry, Kathi, realizing her calling in life, entered the field of human management technology. She joined a practice in Charleston and soon thereafter met her future Epiphany co-owner, Kathleen Walker. While mastering the science of personal assessments, Kathi came to an important conclusion: one’s prosperity depends largely upon an understanding of one’s true self. Kathi explains, “Working in the area of personal assessments, I have observed the power that such individual learning and self-mastery can import to business professionals” When the opportunity arose for Kathi and Kathleen to experience their own “Epiphany”, they seized the moment, thus establishing one of West Virginia’s premier business consulting practices.
Her twelve-year stint in human management technology has provided another key insight into the culture of corporations. Kathi found that companies had become more committed to results, than to their people. This was in direct conflict to her belief that organizations are meant to serve people and the community, not the other way around. Moreover, she learned that one does not change people or companies; Instead, one actually changes the way people look at themselves and life.
The root of Kathi’s inspiration is her family. With husband Dean, they are proud parents of two children. Cody their loving, successful twenty-three-year-old son resides in Redlands, California. Morgan is their charismatic beautiful twenty-year-old is attending Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah Georgia.
Kathleen Walker is a people person. Watch her and you’ll quickly see that she derives great joy from interacting and communicating. Malcolm Gladwell (author of the Tipping Point) would describe her as a “connector”. Kathleen knows everybody and enjoys connecting the dots in her world of friends, clients and acquaintances.
This true Type II (you’ll have to ask her) has found her calling as co-owner of Epiphany Consulting. In this role, she works constantly with people, providing them insights s to how they can more effectively communicate and interact. Kathleen explains, “Self assessment and self awareness can be very empowering. It is such a high to see it working on a daily basis.”
A native of South Charleston, West Virginia, Kathleen has a diverse career background. Her breadth of knowledge and experience encompasses the telecommunications, transportation, healthcare, law and personal service industries. Kathleen’s diverse background helps her to be an effective consultant, often brining direct experience to relate to the client’s challenges and needs. Whatever your field, there’s a good chance Kathleen speaks your language.
Longtime friend and Epiphany co-owner Kathi Richards introduced Kathleen to the world of human management technology and assessments in 1999, when she hired her as a sales representative for a Charleston consulting and counseling practice. Not long afterward, the pair purchased from its former owner. They launched Epiphany in January 2000.
“I am truly committed to making Epiphany a success”; adds Kathleen, describing her vision. “I have been blessed with an incredible business partner and friend in Kathi. We both believe in what we do, and know we make a difference in the people whose lives we touch”
Kathleen and husband David are the proud parents of two daughters, Kinsey and Karley. A committed community servant, Walker is devoted to her work in founding the WV Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a group dedicated to fighting breast cancer, through awareness, screening and treatment as well as serving on South Charleston City Council, and various boards within South Charleston.
