KIME Life News Β· September 2026
Develop
Employee Lifecycle Series Β· Stage 06 of 07
Development is how impact compounds. People β Performance β Purpose.
Development Is How Impact Compounds
In August, we talked about Perform, the stage where effort becomes impact. We said ownership means refusing to be passive about the result. This month, we turn to what comes next: Develop.
Perform is about owning today's result. Develop is about expanding what you're capable of tomorrow. The two work together. Every result teaches you something, and every new skill raises the ceiling on the next result.
At KIME, development isn't a perk or a line in a handbook. It's built into how we work: the Fellowship, KIMEU, weekly Case Discussions, coaching from people who have walked the path before you, and new roles that open as we grow. That investment runs in both directions. KIME builds the platform. You decide how far you take it.
This year, KIME turns ten. Ten years ago, a small team started with a big idea about what physical therapy and performance could be. Everything we've built since, every clinic, program, and teammate, came from people who kept getting better. Development isn't just how individuals grow here. It's how KIME grew.
Growth That's Real
Like every stage of our lifecycle, Develop is a two-way commitment. It's something KIME owes you, and something each of us owns in return.
Develop
- KIME's responsibilityInvest in you for real: structured education, honest coaching, clear paths forward, and opportunities that grow as we grow.
- YoursTake that investment seriously. Show up to learn, seek out the hard feedback, and put new skills to work upgrading lives.
Development isn't something that happens to you. It's something you pursue.
Two New Fellows
This month, Osheray Streeter and Andrew Milton passed their Fellowship exams.
The Fellowship is one of the most demanding development paths at KIME. It takes real study, real skill, and the discipline to keep raising your own standard while caring for patients every day. It's also backed by a $10,000 annual incentive, maintained every year, because demonstrated skill and knowledge help us upgrade more lives.
Osheray passed in the same month as his first anniversary with KIME. That says a lot about what a first year here can hold.
Congratulations, Osheray and Andrew. This is what Develop looks like.
The KIME Impact Leaderboard
Our 2026 goal is to upgrade 11,000 lives, one milestone on the path to 100,000 by 2030. Here's where we stand heading into the final stretch of the year.
Development shows up here too. Every new skill, every Fellow, and every new teammate who gets on the ground expands how many lives we can reach. Check your score on the team site, and remember: the trailing 12 months tell the real story.
Performance isn't a moment. It's a pattern.
Impact in Motion
What we develop inside KIME doesn't stay inside KIME. Our team's expertise travels, and it's making an impact well beyond our clinics.
Our Performance Model, in a Community Gym
This fall, KIME partnered with Fitness MD on an 8-Week Fitness Challenge that's also a research study. Gym members go through the same testing our athletes and patients get: force plates, strength dynamometry, and endurance and aerobic measures. Each member comes away with a single Injury Risk Score and a personalized plan to improve it, built by KIME and Fitness MD together.
The result: the clinical-grade assessment and individualized programming we do every day is now reaching everyday gym members. Because it's run as a study, it also helps build the evidence for proactive screening in community gyms.
βIt's a great example of what KIME and Fitness MD can do together, and hopefully the first of many collaborations like it.βJosef Mielke, KIME Fellow
A New Neighbor in Baseball
Our Reno clinic has a new next-door neighbor. Dbat, a baseball and softball academy, opens fully on November 9, and the partnership is already underway.
Miami Marlins player Robby Snelling is training with us right now, and Brendan has been working with him next door at Dbat. As Brendan and Dom keep building KIME's place in Reno's baseball community, Dbat gives us a partner right next door.
Milestones + Anniversaries
Development doesn't happen in a single moment. It consists of: a course, a case discussion, a piece of feedback, a year of showing up and getting better.
Evan's milestone lands in the same year KIME celebrates ten years, and that's no coincidence: Evan has been part of KIME since the very start. His ten years are KIME's ten years, and his story is woven into ours. Thank you to everyone on this list for the patients you've helped, the teammates you've supported, and the ways you've made KIME better.
Fellowship milestones: Congratulations to Osheray Streeter and Andrew Milton on passing their Fellowship exams.
Around KIME
SME Webinar Series β Three Left
Our Subject Matter Expert series continues this month, 12:15β1:00 PM. Note that Oct. 13 is a Tuesday:
- Tue., Oct. 13 β Making Data Meaningful: From Force Plates to Programming with Jonathan Sanburg
- Wed., Oct. 21 β Developing Speed & Agility with Niko Contos
Missed the September sessions? Tendon Adaptation & Loading, Three Methodologies, and Only Dead Men Have Levers are on the KIMEU calendar.
Kettlebell Resilience β Completed
Kettlebell Resilience wrapped with strong showings in both Granite Bay and Reno. Congrats to everyone who earned or renewed their K Star, and thank you to the KIME and Performance EDU teams for bringing great energy and putting in the work. Need CEUs? If you attended Kettlebell Resilience and did not complete the post-course evaluation, please take one minute to complete it here so the course can be submitted for CEU approval: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9IOlIhdYqyH489azxkubtNhNS0eCS2Fu_98AC9J-0ne6tgQ/viewform
KIMEU
Case Discussions every Thursday. Tech Talk Tuesday on Oct. 27, 12:15β1:00.
KIME in the Classroom
Russ is teaching sports medicine at Sac State this fall, and our semester-long sports medicine elective is underway at Oak Ridge High School. Development at KIME flows outward, too.
KIME Fit Referrals
Refer someone to an adult or masters class. If they sign up, you earn $100. Just let Laurie know it's your referral.
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Growth That's Real
People β Performance β Purpose
KIME Life News is produced by Talent & Culture. Have a story, milestone, or idea for a future issue? Send it to Jessie.
