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Are you looking to invigorate and inspire your audience? I am here to help!

I am a keynote speaker on overcoming change resistance in organizations. I speak about women in manufacturing leadership and Continuous Improvement and how they can build credibility. Book me for your next Lean and Operational Excellence keynote.

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Kelly Mallery is a Keynote speaker who helps:

  • Organizations overcome change resistance

  • Leaders build credibility and influence

  • Continuous improvement professionals drive adoption and buy-in

  • Women in manufacturing increase their impact and visibility

​​Current Keynotes

Change Wars: Why Fighting Resistance is the Wrong Battle and What to Do Instead

Audience: Senior leaders, CI professionals, transformation teams

Problem: Change efforts and organizational adoption stall due to unseen resistance

Talk Outcome: Leaders learn how their own approach fuels or diffuses employee resistance to change and a new change management approach​

Want Credibility? Stop Doing More Lean

Audience: Senior leaders, CI professionals, transformation teams

Problem: CI professionals are not being listened to and their expertise is not being used

Talk Outcome: Leaders learn how their intent is not matching what people are experiencing and that is why resistance happens

​​Behind the Curtain: Rethinking How We Introduce CI Tools & Methods

Audience: Senior leaders, CI professionals, transformation teams

Problem: Tool implementations are not sticking or sustaining

Talk Outcome: Leaders learn how the story they are telling about these tools and methods impacts the way they are viewed by others and how to rethink the way they are selling these

More than Meets the Mind: How to START with Scientific Thinking

Audience: Senior leaders, CI professionals, transformation teams

Problem: Kata and Scientific Thinking initiatives and implementations stall out

Talk Outcome: Leaders learn how to now implement Kata and Scientific Thinking but integrate it into the current business systems for longer lasting engagement

Kelly's Signature Frameworks:

 

Resistobots™

Kelly’s Resistobots are personifications of how leaders show up in times of resistance to change and demonstrate the behaviors that fuel employee resistance.

transFORM

Kelly’s transFORM framework helps leaders identify how their behaviors shape how they are perceived, received, and experienced during change.

 

C.H.A.N.G.E. Shaper™

Kelly's C.H.A.N.G.E. Shaper model helps leaders understand the behaviors and characteristics that get their help used and their ideas listened to.

Other speaking topics include:

  • Change resistance in organizations

  • Building credibility at work

  • Leadership communication and influence

  • Continuous improvement and Lean leadership

  • Women in manufacturing and technical leadership

  • Scientific thinking and problem-solving​

 

Kelly is a great fit for...

  • Leadership offsites

  • Operational excellence / Lean conferences

  • Women in manufacturing events

  • Transformation kickoffsCulture change initiatives

Experiences Include:

  • 12+ years in manufacturing (aerospace, solar, consumer products)

  • Director of Operational Excellence at a global medical device company

  • Founder of Kata School Northeast

  • Speaker on change resistance, credibility, and leadership effectiveness

Let’s make change something people want to be part of. Book me to speak at your next event, and let’s transform the way you lead change—together!

Previous Speaking Engagements

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