Professional Bio
High energy, persistent and results-driven leader, Karima has a track record of achieving and improving dental business outcomes. By facilitating consensus building leadership to inspire and motivate all members of the dental enterprise, Karima has the unique ability to create unified teams that create high performance profit driven centers
With over 2 decades of experience as a dental coach and a clinician working with a wide variety of local, national and international audiences, Karima has attained creative ways to empower dental practices and teams to create clinical and operational efficiencies with a patient-centered care model while managing change processes.
Exemplifying the traits of a true global citizen and driven by her passion to improve global oral health outcomes, Karima conducted tactical and strategic programs in Africa and Asia with the ultimate goal of helping humanity achieve optimal health outcomes. One of her many noteworthy achievements is spearheading a brand-new profession of dental hygiene in Southeast Asia; of which she is the founding program director.
Karima brings her wide variety of expertise and innate ability to achieve measurable outcomes for the dental enterprise as the President of KBM Consulting Services.
Karima is a graduate of two faculties at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry for her dental hygiene program and School of Business for her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).
Karima’s educational efforts have been acknowledged by being awarded the prestigious 2014 University of Alberta (U of A) Alumni Honor Award. She was the recipient of the sought after 2013 Gibb Clinical Teaching Award at U of A for her over two decades of contribution as an Associate Clinical Professor at the U of A Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. She was awarded the Alberta Education scholarship for her high performance at the MBA program.
With over 2 decades of experience as a dental coach and a clinician working with a wide variety of local, national and international audiences, Karima has attained creative ways to empower dental practices and teams to create clinical and operational efficiencies with a patient-centered care model while managing change processes.
Exemplifying the traits of a true global citizen and driven by her passion to improve global oral health outcomes, Karima conducted tactical and strategic programs in Africa and Asia with the ultimate goal of helping humanity achieve optimal health outcomes. One of her many noteworthy achievements is spearheading a brand-new profession of dental hygiene in Southeast Asia; of which she is the founding program director.
Karima brings her wide variety of expertise and innate ability to achieve measurable outcomes for the dental enterprise as the President of KBM Consulting Services.
Karima is a graduate of two faculties at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry for her dental hygiene program and School of Business for her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).
Karima’s educational efforts have been acknowledged by being awarded the prestigious 2014 University of Alberta (U of A) Alumni Honor Award. She was the recipient of the sought after 2013 Gibb Clinical Teaching Award at U of A for her over two decades of contribution as an Associate Clinical Professor at the U of A Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. She was awarded the Alberta Education scholarship for her high performance at the MBA program.
