Kelly is a well-seasoned organizational consultant who focuses on strategy formulation and rapid implementation. She partners with her clients to develop customized solutions that result in sustainable business results. While she has significant experience with Fortune 500 companies, her work extends across many industries with organizations of various sizes and includes both private and public sector experience.
Kelly’s Expertise: Maximizing organizational effectiveness through the management of change. Additional areas of proficiency include organizational diagnostics, role/competency modeling, process re-engineering, training and development, and leadership team coaching. Kelly’s clients appreciate her ability to understand and work within their particular organizational environment while quickly gaining insight into their specific needs.
What She Has Learned: By and
large, people want to do the right thing for the business, and will do it, when
you help them remove the barriers and deal with change.
Highlights -- Work She Has Done:
Managing Consultant to
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group (PBG). Worked with senior leadership to
reorganize PBG’s selling structure in order to optimize sales resources, drive
profitability, and improve customer satisfaction. These goals were accomplished
by redefining and realigning key roles to reflect changes in the PBG client
landscape, eliminating redundant and non-value added work, identifying
enablement tools, and developing programs/incentives to create a unified,
motivated sales force.
Lead Consultant for IBM’s strategic change
Initiative - ACT: Accelerate Change Together. This extensive engagement
supported CEO Lou Gerstner’s strategy to leverage all of the pieces of
IBM--hardware, services and software--to deliver top-to-bottom technology
solutions. Worldwide ACT sessions moved the corporation, and its culture from an
inflexible, product focused bureaucracy, to a fully integrated powerhouse. In
addition to implementing the new strategy, ACT sessions produced more than $4
Billion to IBM’s bottom line in reduced costs and new revenue opportunities.
Lead Consultant for General Electric Company’s highly touted
“Work-Out” initiative. As a core member of GE’s Work-Out team, Kelly
was instrumental in the development of facilitator training materials and
participating in numerous Work-Out events across many of the company’s
businesses including Aircraft Engines, Medical Systems, Transportation, and the
GE/Navair/Key Supplier partnership sessions.
Lead Consultant
for significant change and work re-design initiatives at Boeing,
Pacific Gas and Electric, Disney, The World Bank, Met Life, Conexant, and
University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Lead
Designer/Trainer/Coach for leadership development at the Pepsi-Cola
Company, Dun & Bradstreet, (designed D&B University Leadership Series), AT&T,
Abt Associates, and Dunkin’ Doughnuts.
Kelly formerly worked for
Harbridge House, Inc. (a consulting firm) where she served as the company’s
expert in the area of competency modeling and feedback design to support
leadership training and coaching services/offerings.
Academic
Background
B.A. in Psychology (Business Management minor),
Shippensburg University
M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
University of Georgia.