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Culture · Change · Leadership · Talent

When the business changes, the people have to come with it.

I help leaders and organizations through transformation, integration and growth, with nearly three decades of experience running the People function from the inside. Business-minded, radically direct, deeply compassionate.

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People leadership at
  • GE Healthcare
  • Aon Hewitt
  • Uptake
  • Level Ex
  • PartsSource

How I help

Four ways to work together

Engagements are scoped to what you actually need: a coaching relationship, a defined project, or an experienced People leader for an interim stretch.

For executives & senior leaders

Executive coaching

One-on-one coaching for leaders stepping into bigger roles, leading through change, or working on how they show up.

  • New-role transitions and first 90 days
  • Executive presence and leading with steadiness
  • Delegation, accountability and sustainable pace
For organizations in transition

Change & M&A integration

The deal team has had six months. Employees have had six minutes. I translate the people side of integration into the language of business value, using the PACE approach: Prepare, Align, Care, Embed.

  • Human diligence before close: who people trust and what you can’t afford to break
  • People strategy built backward from the deal thesis
  • Sequencing what changes on day one and what waits
For growing companies

People strategy & interim CPO

Senior People leadership without a permanent hire, or a clear plan for building the function you need next.

  • Interim or fractional Chief People Officer
  • Talent strategy, career architecture and competencies
  • Compensation philosophy and People operations
For leadership teams

Leadership & team development

Programs and offsites that build leaders and teams people want to work for, grounded in the CARE framework.

  • Leadership team alignment and offsites
  • Leadership development programs
  • Inclusive, engaged cultures that retain top talent

The approach

Do you CARE?

My 2019 book introduced a simple framework for human-centered leadership. It shapes every engagement, from a single coaching session to a full integration.

C

Create clarity

People need to understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what it means for them.

A

Be authentic

Be honest about what you know and what you don’t.

R

Relate

Acknowledge that change is hard. People are navigating loss, uncertainty and disruption. Don’t pretend it’s fun.

E

Enable

Give people the information, skills, support and permission to move forward.

CARE ≠ Coddle. Caring isn’t protecting people from change. It’s giving them the tools to navigate it. You can care deeply and still make hard decisions.

Kami Bond

About

Kami Bond

Kami Bond is a people-first, customer-centric organizational change leader, executive coach, professor, and passionate advocate for making work more human. With nearly three decades of people leadership experience, she has built her career at the intersection of business transformation, people strategy, and human potential.

Most recently, Kami served as Chief People Officer at PartsSource, where she was a member of the executive leadership team of a high-growth, private-equity-backed healthcare technology company. Her career also includes senior people and talent leadership roles at Level Ex, Uptake, Aon Hewitt, and GE Healthcare. Along the way, she has scaled organizations, integrated acquisitions, transformed cultures, developed leaders, and built People functions that deliver business results while creating meaningful careers.

Kami is known for being business-minded, radically direct, deeply compassionate—and willing to challenge conventional thinking about what leadership and HR should look like. She believes HR can be both a fierce advocate for people and a driver of business performance and that authenticity, inclusion, neurodiversity, resilience, and high expectations don't have to be competing ideas.

Kami holds an MS in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern University and, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Delaware, helps develop the next generation of human capital leaders and changemakers. Her work increasingly explores leadership, human behavior, applied neuroscience, resilience, and how people adapt and thrive through change and adversity.

Her philosophyGrowth rarely happens in the comfortable. Stay curious. Lead authentically. Remain humble. Have the courage to create conditions where people can evolve—because that’s what humans do.
Recent roles
Chief People Officer, CHRO, SVP People & Culture, Global Head of Talent
Industries
Technology, healthcare, professional services, financial services
Education
MS, Learning & Organizational Change, Northwestern University
BS, Human Services, University of Delaware
Teaching & writing
Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware
Author, Do You CARE? (2019)

Speaking

Talks and workshops

Keynotes, panels and leadership-team sessions on the human side of change.

DisruptHR Chicago

The Deal Closed. The Humans Didn’t.

Learning the love language of M&A value creation.

M&A speaks the language of multiples, synergies, EBITDA and value creation, while the humans being acquired are asking, “What the hell happens to me?” Learn how to practice stealth change management by translating the people side of integration into the language of business value. Walk away thinking differently about how caring for people and creating shareholder value aren’t competing priorities. They’re part of the same deal.

  • Same deal, different clocks
  • What we call resistance is often a human need
  • Culture is experienced on Tuesday, not on the values poster
  • PACE the integration and CARE about the humans
BOW Human Capital CEO Council · October 2026

Follow the Capital

The HR opportunity inside private equity.

A candid conversation, with co-host Ticki Favaroth, about serving PE firms and their portfolio companies, and how HR becomes a value-creation partner.

  • Understanding the PE ecosystem
  • What PE firms buy from HR, and where the opportunities are
  • Positioning as a value-creation partner
  • Going from one company to an entire portfolio
Keynote & workshop

Do You CARE?

A practical session on the CARE framework for leadership teams that want to raise performance and keep their people.

Let’s talk

Tell me what you’re working on.

Whether it’s a leader you want to invest in, an integration on the horizon, or a People function that needs a steady hand, a short first conversation is the best place to start.

Emailkami@bondtalentgroup.com
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/kami-bond
Based inChicago area · working nationally