Kimberly Gillem
Cultural Insights & Foresight | Anthropologist shaping brand, product & strategy
- Role
- Nike Sportswear - Cultural Insights at Nike
- Location
- Portland, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kimberly Gillem
I work at - helping teams understand how shifting cultural forces and emerging behaviors shape what people choose, watch, wear, participate in and explore. As a, I bring deep curiosity and pattern recognition to complex environments. I surface the signals beneath behavior, culture, and context, then translate them into insights that drive alignment and action.Throughout my career, I’ve led global cultural research, built new insight capabilities, and partnered with cross‑functional leaders to ensure cultural intelligence shapes creative development, innovation agendas, and market strategy. I operate best as an IC-Manager hybrid, ‑ when rigor, speed, or depth matter.Whether advising leaders, shaping innovation roadmaps, or designing studies end‑to‑end, my focus remains the same, ‑.
Experience
Nike Sportswear - Cultural Insights
Nov 2025 — Present
Influencing Brand Marketing, Product, and Strategy with future-facing consumer and cultural insights
Education
UCLA
Design/Communication Arts
University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cultural Anthropology
Parsons School of Design - The New School
Futures Studies and Speculative Design Certificate, (In progress)
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