Who Is Kia A. Bing-Davies?
Kia A. Bing-Davies is an award-winning international speaker, trauma-informed psychotherapist, and embodiment coach dedicated to redefining leadership for women over 50. With a background spanning executive leadership, integrative psychotherapy, somatic and spiritual coaching, she guides high-achieving women through midlife reinvention, helping them reclaim their voice, confidence, and purpose. As the founder of transformational platforms and a sought-after event host, Kia is widely recognized for her ability to blend clinical depth with soulful presence, empowering women to live, love, and lead with authenticity, wisdom, and embodied power.
There are moments in life when a voice long held back finally finds its way to the surface, not with force, but with certainty. For Kia A. Bing-Davies, that moment arrived not in spite of midlife, but because of it. What society often frames as an ending, Kia experienced as an arrival. A remembering. A powerful unmuting that would go on to shape her life’s work and redefine leadership for women over 50.
“I remember being a little girl, sitting in my room trying to calculate the year I would turn 50,” she recalls. “It felt impossibly far away, an age reserved for someone ancient, a version of me I couldn’t imagine ever becoming.” And yet, when that milestone arrived, it marked not a diminishment, but an expansion. “Instead of feeling past it, I began arriving. I felt more grounded, more powerful, and more purpose-led than ever before.”
That internal shift, away from performance and people-pleasing, toward authenticity and embodied truth, became the foundation of Kia’s leadership philosophy and the catalyst for a career devoted to helping women reclaim their voice, visibility, and power in the second half of life.
From Performance to Presence
Kia’s journey began in the world of high performance and executive leadership. Armed with a strong academic background, including a Juris Doctor and Master of Laws from Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Communications Management from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, she built a successful career across business development, sales leadership, and organizational change.
In senior roles within corporate environments, Kia became intimately familiar with ambition, responsibility, and the unspoken cost of being the one who holds everything together. She excelled professionally, yet beneath the surface she observed a recurring pattern, not only in herself, but in the women she led and mentored. High-achieving, capable women were quietly burning out, disconnected from their intuition, bodies, and inner voice.
“I kept seeing brilliant women who had mastered strategy but were spiritually starved,” she explains. “I realized that performance alone couldn’t lead to wholeness. We can’t think our way into transformation. We have to feel our way there.”
This realization prompted Kia to deepen her path, expanding beyond conventional leadership frameworks into integrative psychotherapy, trauma-informed and somatic practices, and spiritual mentorship. She trained extensively in energy psychology and holistic life coaching at Holistic Healing College, bringing together clinical insight with embodied and intuitive wisdom.
Integrating Leadership, Healing, and Voice
Rather than abandoning her leadership roots, Kia integrated them, creating a unique methodology that bridges executive experience with therapeutic depth. In 2015, she founded Kia Aileen – Divine Life Transformation, supporting high-achieving individuals to move beyond fear, self-doubt, and self-sabotage into lives marked by clarity, confidence, and joy.
Her work evolved alongside her own spiritual reawakening.
“I realized healing wasn’t just about repair,” she says. “It was also about remembering, our essence, our intuition, our right to take up space simply because we exist.”
That insight became central to her approach: transformation that is not only behavioral, but structural, emotional, somatic, and spiritual.
As her impact grew, so did her visibility. Kia emerged as an award-winning international speaker and dynamic event host, known for her calm authority, soulful storytelling, and ability to create spaces where women feel both safe and activated. Her keynote talks, delivered at global summits, retreats, and leadership events, explore themes of midlife reinvention, embodied leadership, healing childhood trauma, and leading from the heart.
Her signature keynotes, including More Than Just Menopause, Unmute Your Life, and Goodbye Wishful Thinking: The S.E.C.R.E.T to Manifesting the Life You Truly Want, resonate because they speak directly to women who have spent decades leading others while silencing themselves.
Reclaiming Voice, Power, and Visibility
At the heart of Kia’s work is a deep understanding of the most common barrier women face in midlife: internalized silence.
“Not the outer kind,” she explains, “but the inner one that settles in after years of shape-shifting, self-abandonment, and proving worth through usefulness.”
By midlife, many women have built entire lives around not being too much. Kia helps them dismantle the belief that power requires performance and replace it with a truer, more sustainable form of leadership, one rooted in authenticity, discernment, and embodied presence.
In 2024, she founded The Build Foundation, a transformational platform dedicated to women over 50 navigating reinvention. Through coaching programs, immersive retreats, and corporate partnerships, the foundation supports both individuals and organizations, championing senior leadership retention, wellbeing, and inclusive leadership.
The results are tangible and deeply personal. Clients describe moments of quiet revolution: launching purpose-led businesses, stepping onto stages, reclaiming creativity, and setting boundaries without guilt.
One client reflects, “You helped me break through deep-seated self-doubt, reconnect with my purpose, and step into a version of myself I never thought possible.”
Another shares, “Kia senses into the energy and waters it as your best version blooms.”
Peers and collaborators echo this sentiment. Award-winning speaker Osayi Ebohon describes Kia as “an exceptional coach and communicator,” while personal brand strategist Bianca Miller-Cole praises her ability to “command the room while ensuring every voice feels valued.”
A Legacy of Remembrance
When asked about legacy, Kia is clear: it is not defined by titles, stages, or accolades.
“My legacy lives in the thousands of quiet revolutions I’ve witnessed,” she says. “The moment a woman says no without guilt. The moment she puts on red lipstick again because she finally sees herself.”
Her vision extends beyond individual transformation to cultural change. In a world that often worships youth and speed, Kia is helping reawaken reverence for wisdom, depth, and lived experience.
“We must learn to value wholeness over image,” she insists. “Leadership doesn’t need to be a mask. It can be a mirror.”
For the next generation, Kia is working toward a future where turning 50 is not seen as a decline, but a distinction, where women in midlife are celebrated as embodiments of resilience, insight, and power.
Editorial Note
Kia A. Bing-Davies is part of a growing movement redefining leadership in the second half of life. Her work challenges outdated narratives around age, visibility, and power—inviting women to unmute themselves and lead from truth. For organizations, event hosts, and individuals seeking leadership that is both grounded and transformative, her voice represents not a trend, but a timely return to what leadership was always meant to be.
