EXPERT ON:
◉ Team Building & Collaboration
EXPERIENCE:
◉ Medical & Leadership Expert – Former Professor and Chief of Obstetric Anesthesiology with extensive leadership across clinical, academic, and hospital operations.
◉ Certified Coach & Founder – Trauma-informed, women-centered leadership coach and creator of The UNNUMB Method™, empowering women to reclaim their power and purpose.
◉ Speaker & Thought Leader – Keynote speaker and upcoming TEDx presenter, known for advancing physician wellness, leadership, and breaking gender bias in the workplace
Dewayne Kimble is a U.S. Army Veteran and retired VA Rating Specialist trained by the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he adjudicated over 15,000 disability compensation claims. During his military service, he was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for saving two lives. After retiring from the VA, Dewayne founded KMD89 VA Claims Consulting with a mission to educate veterans, their family members, and active-duty service members on the VA disability compensation claims process. He is the author of two Amazon best-selling books, VA Claims Success and The VA Compensation Blueprint: It’s Time To Win, and co-founder of VA Benefits Navigator, a veteran-built educational platform—first of its kind in the VA claims space—that brings together a curriculum-based University, proprietary software, and a structured educational approach to understanding the VA claims process.
Today, Dewayne is one of the leading voices on YouTube in the VA claims education niche, with over 800 videos, live streams, and shorts reaching more than 160,000 subscribers worldwide. Organizations, companies, and universities invite Dewayne to show appreciation to their veteran employees and students by providing structured education on the VA claims process. Through seminars, webinars, and group sessions, he delivers clear, real-world insight that helps veteran communities better understand how the system works and what to expect. His mission is simple: Leave No Vet Behind—and he is committed to helping organizations better support and educate their veteran population.