Speeches & Consulting
Speeches & Consulting
Dr. Kelley brings over 40 years of experience to some of the most admired organizations in the world, including Fortune 500 Companies, Pension Funds, and Non-Profits. He is frequently enlisted as a speaker for keynote presentations, internal leadership events, and 2-3 day workshop series. Known as a dynamic speaker who believes in humor, he engages the audience to provide participants with an "aha" experience and the tools to create change that sticks.
His consulting work also includes individual executive coaching, short-term consulting arrangements (including half-day and multi-day programs), and longer-term consulting projects typically lasting months to years. Rarely, he will take on exceptional research projects with organizations targeting complicated problems that require novel solutions with the potential to create transformative, industry-wide change.
Dr. Kelley’s past and current clients range in size from venture-funded start-ups to multi-billion dollar Fortune 100 companies employing over 50,000 people worldwide. Likewise, he has extensive cross-industry expertise, with clients in industries including technology, communications, defense, energy, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, retail, entertainment and media, finance, professional services, and education. His work has taken him to over 40 countries across 6 continents.
Topics
Topics
FOLLOWERSHIP & LEADERSHIP
- Creating Strong and Successful Leadership-Followership Partnerships
- Styles of Followership; Styles of Leadership
STAR PERFORMANCE
- Building Star Organizations
- Star Performers: How to Hire, Develop, Reward, and Keep Them
- Turning Average Workers into Star Performers
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL & GOLD COLLAR WORKERS
- Leveraging Intellectual Capital
- Building Knowledge Management Infrastructures That Work
- Improving the Productivity of Engineers and Scientists
- Gold-Collar Workers: Harnessing Their Brainpower
CUSTOMER-CENTRIC STRATEGIES AND SERVICES
- Creating a Customer-Centric Culture
- Customer Satisfaction
MINORITIES AND WOMEN
- Star Performer Training for Minorities and Women
Formats
Formats
- Keynote presentations, speeches, and multi-day speaking series
- Individual executive coaching
- Short term consulting arrangements, including half-day programs and 2-3 day workshops
- Longer-term consulting arrangements that typically last months or years
- Will take on exceptional research projects with organizations; projects typically revolve around complicated problems that require novel, innovative solutions with the potential to create transformative, industry-wide change
Star@Work Program
Star@Work Program
- Productivity improvement plan and training program based on 30 years of research and work with companies such as Bell Labs, 3M, and HP
- Written-up in the Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal
- Teaches the nine work strategies employed by star performers in a series of sessions in order to transform knowledge workers, who have the required competence and cognitive abilities, into star performers, who propel the company forward
- The program has yielded a 400% increase in productivity improvement rates for newer workers, minorities, and women
- Star@Work® can be delivered in face-to-face sessions or online and as a complete program or through customized individual modules to meet your needs
- Dr. Kelley has trained and certified skilled practitioners around the world to deliver Star@Work, including intensive work with Avid Learner to coordinate these efforts.