Kelli is an award-winning leadership and executive coach, keynote speaker, and the critically-acclaimed author of Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck. In Kelli’s two-decade career leading teams in primarily male-dominated industries, she received industry awards for her ability to build programs that cultivated the pipeline of future leaders.

 

Kelli has coached and trained thousands of leaders to lead with more clarity and confidence through her no BS, yet highly compassionate approach. Her corporate clients rave about the insightful, engaging and practical application of her training and speaking programs.

 

Kelli holds an MBA and her thought leadership is published in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, and Market Watch. Her book was named a “Must Read” by the Next Big Idea Club, an exclusive reading list curated by Malcom Gladwell, Daniel Pink, Adam Grant and Susan Cain.

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Kelli’s programs helps high-achieving leaders, especially women, and the organizations they work for, boost their peace, their potential and their paychecks. Clients consistently say that Kelli helped them to stop selling themselves short and apply for next level roles, to trust themselves to speak up and make confident decisions, and fulfill their potential in their next level of leadership.

 

For organizations, these clear and confident leaders are retained as critical and promotable talent in the pipeline. They create teams and organizations that people want to work for because they lead in alignment with their talents and values, inspiring innovation revenue and results.

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Additional Details: 

Kelli was awarded the Training Magazine Emerging Training Leader award for her demonstrated leadership in leading and generating strong ROI from her training programs. She is a Stevie Award winner for Women in business - Coach of the year.

 

She earned her MBA and has served as Adjunct Management Faculty at the University of Nebraska – Omaha.  

 

She completed several executive and leadership coaching certifications and is also certified to facilitate the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram.

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