Expertise

 

• Assessing and aligning organizational systems and structures

• Leading and managing large-scale change initiatives

• Conducting research, developing strategy, and enabling innovation initiatives

• Building employee engagement processes and promoting quality of work life

• Designing and facilitating leadership training programs and applying behavioral-based learning

 

Experience

 

Managing Change: as a core member of GE's highly successful WorkOut process, Kelly led numerous WorkOut events across many of GE's businesses and developed facilitator training materials.

 

Innovation: has been engaged in IBM's ACT (Accelerating Change Together) initiative since its inception: is a core member of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook team and a prime contributor to IBM's Smarter Planet Leadership curriculum design.

 

Talent Development: designed behavioral competency models and created alignment of HR systems around them to enable core strategic initiatives.

 

Organizational Diagnostics: as a Harbridge House feedback specialist, Kelly developed methodologies to obtain and analyze data pertaining to managerial and organizational performance issues.

Education

 

• B.A. in Psychology from Shippensburg University

• M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University

• Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (concentration in research design and statistical analysis) from the University of Georgia

 

Little-Known Facts

 

• Loves arranging flowers

• Proud member of many a book club

• Collector of shoes

• Former gymnast