Speeches

Dr. Kelley is known as a dynamic speaker who engages with the audience to get people involved. His goal is to provide an “aha” experience where participants learn something new about the topic and themselves. Knowing that people learn best when they are enjoying themselves, he gives examples that show the funny side of the serious business of helping people and organizations change for the better. He is available for keynote presentations, half-day programs, and two to three day workshops.

Presentation Topics

Star Performance

  • Building Star Organizations
  • Star Performers: How to Hire, Develop, Reward, and Keep Them
  • Turning Average Workers into Star Performers

Followership and Leadership

  • Creating Strong and Successful Leadership-Followership Partnerships
  • Styles of Followership; Styles of Leadership

Customer-Centric Strategies and Services

  • Creating a Customer-Centric Culture
  • Customer Satisfaction

Intellectual Capital and 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

Minorities and Women

  • Star Performer Training for Minorities and Women

A Sample of What Clients Say

  • Keynote speech to Technical Conference

"I personally felt that his presentation was one of the highlights of our conference. I regret that I did not have him present at several times during our conference." -- Conference Co-Chair and Coordinator

  • Keynote speech to American Society for Training and Development National Conference

"Your general session presentation was a hit! [It] was rated among the top 5% of all 70 presentations - and more than one person noted that [your] talk "made the conference for me." -- Senior Meeting Planner

  • Presentation to University Leadership Conference

"It was the consensus of those in attendance that you were the icing on the cake - you stole the show! Well done. Besides the powerful substance of your message, we were all charmed by your artful style of presentation."
-- Dean of the College of Business Administration

  • Presentation to the Resource Planners Group

"Dr. Kelley is a particularly engaging presenter; the friendly informality and clarity of his style were in true contrast to the startling novelty of what he had to say. The audience, completely taken in by his unassuming humility, his quiet invitation to join the pursuit of this inquiry into organizational behavior, was energized by his message. He certainly challenged us to question conventional paradigms, to re-think some of the traditional notions we have continued to ascribe to leaders and where we find them." -- Vice President

  • Presentation to Chief Executive Officers Club

"Wow! You really made me stop and think about the importance of followers in my own organization and elsewhere. Your provocative insights were tremendously valuable to the CEO Club." "[Your] panel continues to receive rave reviews." -- Club President

  • Presentation to the American Society of Association of Executives

"Bravo to you for one of the most outstanding presentations ever made to an ASAE audience in all my experience here." -- Director, Education Services Division