Katie C. Kelley
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Rob Roberts
Katie Kelley is an incredible leader of people, harnessing her finely-honed skills in communications, empathy, and collaboration to build and sustain high-performing teams, as well as drive business. She’s mastered the art of truly listening – taking in the person with whom she’s interacting and responding accordingly. I’ve observed first-hand her ability to navigate challenging waters with both grace and wisdom and count it a true privilege to have partnered with her and would love to do so in the future. The tangible impact she’s made in my personal and professional life cannot be underestimated!
Natalie Miller, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Katie Kelley is a powerful business strategist, evangelist, and builder of communities. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Katie at LHH and observe her organizing the 50/50 Women on Boards Campaigns in our greater community. She has an exceptional talent for building and inspiring communities of like-minded people around a common vision toward a unified goal. Specifically, with the 50/50 WOB Campaign, Katie sold out the inaugural event, secured corporate sponsorship from over 30 organizations and assembled a powerhouse roster of C-suite influencers to make for an unforgettable fundraiser. At LHH, Katie has steadily led our region throughout the pandemic with a compelling and consistent vision, developed a top-notch team, created unique thought leadership events for our customers and successfully collaborated across siloes to ensure we far surpassed our goals and KPIs. You want Katie Kelley on your leadership team!
Rob Roberts
Katie Kelley is an incredible leader of people, harnessing her finely-honed skills in communications, empathy, and collaboration to build and sustain high-performing teams, as well as drive business. She’s mastered the art of truly listening – taking in the person with whom she’s interacting and responding accordingly. I’ve observed first-hand her ability to navigate challenging waters with both grace and wisdom and count it a true privilege to have partnered with her and would love to do so in the future. The tangible impact she’s made in my personal and professional life cannot be underestimated!
Natalie Miller, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Katie Kelley is a powerful business strategist, evangelist, and builder of communities. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Katie at LHH and observe her organizing the 50/50 Women on Boards Campaigns in our greater community. She has an exceptional talent for building and inspiring communities of like-minded people around a common vision toward a unified goal. Specifically, with the 50/50 WOB Campaign, Katie sold out the inaugural event, secured corporate sponsorship from over 30 organizations and assembled a powerhouse roster of C-suite influencers to make for an unforgettable fundraiser. At LHH, Katie has steadily led our region throughout the pandemic with a compelling and consistent vision, developed a top-notch team, created unique thought leadership events for our customers and successfully collaborated across siloes to ensure we far surpassed our goals and KPIs. You want Katie Kelley on your leadership team!
Rob Roberts
Katie Kelley is an incredible leader of people, harnessing her finely-honed skills in communications, empathy, and collaboration to build and sustain high-performing teams, as well as drive business. She’s mastered the art of truly listening – taking in the person with whom she’s interacting and responding accordingly. I’ve observed first-hand her ability to navigate challenging waters with both grace and wisdom and count it a true privilege to have partnered with her and would love to do so in the future. The tangible impact she’s made in my personal and professional life cannot be underestimated!
Natalie Miller, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Katie Kelley is a powerful business strategist, evangelist, and builder of communities. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Katie at LHH and observe her organizing the 50/50 Women on Boards Campaigns in our greater community. She has an exceptional talent for building and inspiring communities of like-minded people around a common vision toward a unified goal. Specifically, with the 50/50 WOB Campaign, Katie sold out the inaugural event, secured corporate sponsorship from over 30 organizations and assembled a powerhouse roster of C-suite influencers to make for an unforgettable fundraiser. At LHH, Katie has steadily led our region throughout the pandemic with a compelling and consistent vision, developed a top-notch team, created unique thought leadership events for our customers and successfully collaborated across siloes to ensure we far surpassed our goals and KPIs. You want Katie Kelley on your leadership team!
Rob Roberts
Katie Kelley is an incredible leader of people, harnessing her finely-honed skills in communications, empathy, and collaboration to build and sustain high-performing teams, as well as drive business. She’s mastered the art of truly listening – taking in the person with whom she’s interacting and responding accordingly. I’ve observed first-hand her ability to navigate challenging waters with both grace and wisdom and count it a true privilege to have partnered with her and would love to do so in the future. The tangible impact she’s made in my personal and professional life cannot be underestimated!
Natalie Miller, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Katie Kelley is a powerful business strategist, evangelist, and builder of communities. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Katie at LHH and observe her organizing the 50/50 Women on Boards Campaigns in our greater community. She has an exceptional talent for building and inspiring communities of like-minded people around a common vision toward a unified goal. Specifically, with the 50/50 WOB Campaign, Katie sold out the inaugural event, secured corporate sponsorship from over 30 organizations and assembled a powerhouse roster of C-suite influencers to make for an unforgettable fundraiser. At LHH, Katie has steadily led our region throughout the pandemic with a compelling and consistent vision, developed a top-notch team, created unique thought leadership events for our customers and successfully collaborated across siloes to ensure we far surpassed our goals and KPIs. You want Katie Kelley on your leadership team!
Experience
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bluSPARC™
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President, Client Partnerships
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Jun 2022 - Present
Katie C. Kelley is an innovative coach specializing in leaders’ professional evolutions with extensive “real life” leadership experience at Adecco, KEEN, and Novartis. Author of Career Courage, published by Harper Collins in 2016, a bold “tell it like it is” book that distills problem-solving strategies, psychological mindsets, and roadmaps for career success. An experienced motivational speaker at conferences and organizations like CNN, Wharton, Bank of America, and on ABC television news as a regular contributor. B.A. in Psychology at Boston College and a M.S.W. at Smith College. What is bluSPARC™? Clients call it “a brilliant turnkey L&D model” that compounds the power of assessments, coaching and cohort learning – delivered in a high touch scalable process. We are also uniquely positioned to blend in person leadership advisory experiences alongside our digital, immersive solution. Your leaders will perform better, their teams excel and you can watch the enterprise thrive.
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LHH
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United States
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Human Resources Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Vice President, Talent Solutions Regional Leader, West Coast
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Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
LHH is a subsidiary of The Adecco Group, a publicly held Fortune Global 500 and the world’s largest provider of talent solutions. SCOPE: P&L Ownership | 5 Direct Reports | 160+ Indirect Reports In 2019, I was brought in to turn around a region struggling with leadership turnover and inconsistent sales for several years prior. Within the first year, I stabilized the division amid the pandemic chaos and by Year 2, grew sales by 2X. During this time, I led the Talent Development Practice for talent lifecycle enterprise solutions where I was accountable for P&L, leading cross-functional teams of 160+ Consultants, Coaches, and Customer Service Managers through extreme market conditions of the pandemic. Areas of Focus: + Service Delivery Transformation + Go-to-Market Paradigm Shift + Value Proposition Reset + Innovative Outreach Strategies + Rapid Brand Amplification + C-Suite Happy Hours to Grow Brand Affinity + Global Marketing & Thought Leadership Collaboration + Rich Community Building via Targeted Events Strategy + C-Suite Customer Relationship Building + Customer Experience + Project Management Execution
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KEEN
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United States
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Apparel & Fashion
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400 - 500 Employee
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Global Leadership Development Director
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Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
KEEN is a privately owned footwear global company with $340M in annual revenue. SCOPE: U.S. & Global Footprint | Matrix Oversight: 400+ From 2015 – 2019, I served as an internal consultant for Keen as the company embarked on implementing numerous change and leadership initiatives focused on global productivity, inclusive culture building, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. Trusted for my strong change management, stakeholder alignment, and project leadership capabilities, I was repeatedly tapped to lead large, complex initiatives. Select Initiatives Include: + Established an organizational transformation center of excellence to deepen our employee experience, amplify our company’s cultural strengths and catalyze leadership greatness.+ Piloted two leadership experience programs centered around employee management capabilities and inclusive leadership at the executive level.+ Partnered with our COO to spearhead strategic behavioral changes to enable a high-impact product, operations, and supply chain operational improvement project+ Served as the core team change manager for the roll-out of our product life cycle management software system (Centric) in China, Thailand, Mexico, India, Cambodia and beyond.Repeatedly Recognized for Powerful Impact: + Awarded in the Top 20% as a ‘Standout Performer’ due to the success of these initiatives. (2017 & 2018).+ Awarded “MVP Organizational Glue Award” by the VP of Technical Operations for serving as the unifier across our product creation and supply chain global teams.Areas of Focus: + Global Operational Transformation across Factory and Production Facilities in China, Thailand, Europe, India, Vietnam, and Japan+ Inclusive Culture Building + Organizational Effectiveness + Leadership Development + Change Management
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People Development Director
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Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
KEEN was a former client of mine, and in 2015, after years of providing helpful coaching and consultation, I was asked to join full-time as People Development Director.In this role I led the design, implementation, and evaluation of talent management and development programs resulting in an amazing employee experience that drove employee engagement and business results.
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Katie Kelley Networks
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United States
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Leadership Coach & Consultant, Author
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Mar 2009 - Apr 2015
This period was an exciting time for exploration, testing my capabilities, and challenging myself in new ways by building a strong consulting business while concurrently raising two small children. During this time, I: + Wrote the book, Career Courage (published by Harper Collins, 2016), about mindsets and strategies for long-term success gleaned from 70 leader interviews. + Designed, wrote and produced live broadcast segments for Portland’s #1 morning television show. + Delivered national motivational speaking, consulting and coaching engagements for organizations such as Time Inc., Google and Boston College. Areas of Focus: + Thought Leadership + Content Development + Speaking Engagements
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ABC News
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United States
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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700 & Above Employee
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Media Contributor
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Aug 2011 - Aug 2014
I served as a regular contributor on Portland's top rated morning television show, ABC's "AM Northwest" for three wonderful years. Designed and wrote segments on the topics of leadership, success and influencing skills for business. I served as a regular contributor on Portland's top rated morning television show, ABC's "AM Northwest" for three wonderful years. Designed and wrote segments on the topics of leadership, success and influencing skills for business.
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Novartis
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Switzerland
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Management Candidate/Sales Consultant
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Nov 2004 - Dec 2007
+ Top Producing District + Recognized with Numerous Excellence Awards + Top Producing District + Recognized with Numerous Excellence Awards
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Clinician
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Feb 2002 - Nov 2004
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Education
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1993 - 1997
Boston College
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology -
1999 - 2001
Smith College
Master, Clinical Social Work -
Cathedral Catholic High School
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2008 - 2009
Coach University
CEP, Core Essentials Program -
Smith College
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Smith College
Masters Clinical Social Work, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy -
Smith College
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Smith College
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