Kelly Vandever
Smart leaders don't ask employees to, "Just do your job." Smart leaders ask for more.
In an attention-deficit, entertain-me-now, wait-while-I-post-this-on-Facebook kind of world, smart leaders engage their employees and achieve superior results.
Kelly Vandever learned early in her leadership career about the power of engagement and now she teaches other how they too can get extraordinary results by unleashing the innovation in their own workforce.
Kelly's professional career includes more than twenty years of management experience as a military officer and a manager in four Fortune 500 companies. Kelly received her BA in Sociology from Iowa State and her Masters of Management Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. An 11-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Kelly rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was awarded two Navy Commendation Medals for personal achievement while on active duty. After leaving the service, she worked in the information technology field over 13 years, managing both human resources and software development professionals. In 2009, Kelly left corporate America to start her own company, Speaking Practically where she helps organization improve their business results through innovations in their approach to leadership and communications.
Kelly has worked with leaders from over 160 organizations and her clients have included Cox Enterprises, the CDC, USAID, Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, INPO, Herschend Family Entertainment, Keller Williams, Bigger Brains, the Georgia Justice Project, The Home Depot, the American Management Association and more.
Smart leaders don't ask employees to, "Just do your job." Smart leaders ask for more.
In an attention-deficit, entertain-me-now, wait-while-I-post-this-on-Facebook kind of world, smart leaders engage their employees and achieve superior results.
Kelly Vandever learned early in her leadership career about the power of engagement and now she teaches other how they too can get extraordinary results by unleashing the innovation in their own workforce.
Kelly's professional career includes more than twenty years of management experience as a military officer and a manager in four Fortune 500 companies. Kelly received her BA in Sociology from Iowa State and her Masters of Management Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. An 11-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, Kelly rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was awarded two Navy Commendation Medals for personal achievement while on active duty. After leaving the service, she worked in the information technology field over 13 years, managing both human resources and software development professionals. In 2009, Kelly left corporate America to start her own company, Speaking Practically where she helps organization improve their business results through innovations in their approach to leadership and communications.
Kelly has worked with leaders from over 160 organizations and her clients have included Cox Enterprises, the CDC, USAID, Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, INPO, Herschend Family Entertainment, Keller Williams, Bigger Brains, the Georgia Justice Project, The Home Depot, the American Management Association and more.
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