Kelley Connors
President at KC Well
Professional Training and Coaching
Education: Bachelor of Science - Masters in Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Biography
Kelley Connors, MPH, is life work coach and creative marketing collaborator for women leaders and entrepreneurs who are in transition and seek more purpose and joy in their life's work. Her own superpower is working on purpose to empower women leaders to expand their own capacity for joy and courage.
In January 2020, she published her first guide book for women leaders, change agents and entrepreneurs called “Be Your Own Brave and Reignite Your Life’s Work”.
As background, Kelley brings a breadth of industry experience as a communications executive working with global pharmaceutical companies, non-profit health and social service organizations, and, most recently, inside a Silicon Valley consumer health start-up. She’s a women’s health & wellness expert, published in the Journal of Health Care Communications, Huffington Post, and several trade publications.
Her recent on-line coaching course “Incubate What’s Next” was well-received from women leaders in transition with their life’s work. Kelley has been the Director of Marketing for the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Boston Chapter and has served the HBA in a global marketing capacity for many years. She completed an on-line course at the Benson-Henry Institute Mind Body Medicine Center in Boston, and is trained in coaching by Wellcoaches, and the University of Southern California in healthy aging.
Kelley earned her Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Medicine, with a Certificate in Public Communication.
She is a yoga and mindfulness teacher for women leaders and shares her work with homeless women at Rosie's Place in Boston.
Passion
purpose and passion are topics often talked about among women leaders. However, to ensure that this conversation is one that is authentic and leads to change and growth among women, we must take a pathway that is grounded in life story and its meaning. And, once we experience this, we can choose to let it go and celebrate all that we are and all that we will become. The path to self-discovery and self-leadership requires an ability to be self-compassionate - and knowing that we are enough no matter what. Herein lies our authentic leadership pathway!
I am willing to travel
Up to 25 miles
When it comes to payments
Everything is negotiable
Topics
Best Story
How My Own Story of Imperfection Led to Brave Moves
I wasn’t ‘’supposed to’’ make a Brave Move, I felt safer hiding and striving for perfection. Working as a professional throughout my career, creating my communications business, allowed me to layer on a feeling of accomplishment and pride, but being brave, that was not on the cards for me. It was elusive, however, I had no idea that it was lying passionately inside me.
As Maya Angelou said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”.
My brave moves inspired…
Through the care of my mother, my natural, and passionate instinct for a brave move emerged. My mother was a fit, healthy woman who regularly enjoyed bike riding until one day suddenly she had a stroke and became severely disabled. Being her caregiver, and to support my father, I took a stand for her medically and emotionally. The experience of confronting rules and regulations, expectations around aging and medical protocols pushed me to claim the bravery lying inside me. This began my journey to inspire and help working women to choose whole being as a pathway to working well, to navigate gender parity & societal barriers as a collaborator, and to regularly practice the power of possibility.
The pillar of wellbeing is bravery. To be brave means to be inspired by the heart and this will helps you take a stand for yourself and others as you claim your seat at the table and work well.
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” – Brene Brown, LCSW, PhD, Best-Selling Author & Social Researcher.
Origin Story
My own story is one of continued growth and focus on my purpose. I started out consulting after working in a large global health network focused on women's health marketing campaigns. My clients were pharma companies with a range of medicinals that contributed to women's quality of life. After working on these campaigns for a decade, I realized that the best way to improve women's quality of life was through communications and empowerment strategies. I translated the pharma strategies into women's wellbeing strategies and wrote an ebook just at the time that social media was coming into power. The book called "Her Rules and Your Tools" resonated with healthcare marketers and women alike. This was the start of my own consulting business that expanded my confidence and belief in what was most important to me at this midlife stage. I used my own experience with writing the book and starting my business to help other women leaders transition out of dead end jobs in midlife or jobs that they had outgrown. Over the last ten years, my role as a consultant has shifted to coaching women leaders to reignite their life's work. Courage, calm and clarity are three points I drill down in my published book called "Be Your Own BRAVE and Reignite Your Life's Work".