OPEN HEARTS CHANGE MINDS
Creating safe, inclusive, accountable cultures that respect and embrace people's humanity
Kelly's Why ...
My mission is to help you create a safe, inclusive, accountable culture in your organization where people see and appreciate each other’s humanity. That requires open, honest conversation and accountability. It also requires a genuine commitment from your leadership to integrate diversity, equity, belonging, inclusion, and safety into the fabric of your organization.
What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t count. What isn’t seen as having a direct correlation to your bottom line, doesn’t matter.
This work is not just business or interesting topics to me. This is personal to me as a Black woman and mother. I have experienced bias and discrimination. My son was also a victim of police brutality. But he was also blessed in that situation to have an assertive advocate.
Because of this and my over 20 years of experience as an employment law trial attorney, companies, organizations, and associations, hire me as their keynote speaker to empower and equip your leaders and employees with the skills and practical tools to disrupt unconscious bias, practice bystander intervention, and engage in courageous conversations.
If you’re ready and committed to doing the work, I’m ready to help keep you organization out of courtrooms and newsrooms.
Kelly At Work
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My goal is to open peoples' hearts so they can change their minds.
Signature Talks
Inclusions Starts With Conversations: Strategies for Building Conversational Cultures
Conversations about race, work, and family can be challenging, but avoiding them is not an option. Don’t let fear hold you back from the conversations that matter. Your business depends on courageous communication that fosters understanding and growth. Learn the “PER”fect Framework for engaging in courageous conversations, so you can build a culture of inclusivity and trust. Discover how to start, what to say, and how to handle difficult situations, and leave with the tools you need to cultivate conversational cultures.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the critical role of courageous conversations in fostering workplace inclusivity
- Master the "PER"fect Framework for engaging in conversations about difficult topics
- Discover techniques for starting and steering conversations on sensitive topics
- Gain strategies for handling difficult situations and resolving misunderstandings
- Evaluate the impact of inclusive conversational cultures on business success
Cultivating, Safe, Inclusive & Accountable Cultures
It is imperative for organizations to create safe, inclusive cultures where people see, appreciate, and respect each other’s humanity. That requires open, honest conversation and accountability. It also requires a genuine commitment from leadership to integrate diversity, equity, belonging, inclusion, and safety into the fabric of the organization. What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t count. What isn’t seen as having a direct correlation to your bottom line, doesn’t matter.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and identify unconscious biases in the workplace and develop strategies to disrupt their impact
- Explore the "PER"fect Framework for engaging in courageous conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
- Develop skills for bystander intervention and discover the 4 Cs for how to effectively intervene
- Evaluate he role of accountability in creating a safe, inclusive cultures and uncover strategies for holding individuals and teams accountable
The V Suite: Where Women Own Their Vision, Voice, Visibility & Value
For too long, women have been held back by societal expectations: “act like a lady,” “stay in your lane,” “shut up,” “don’t ask for too much.” But when women retreat, they only reinforce the systems that erase them. The truth is, women are powerful at their core. By defining what it means to act like a lady, choosing their own path, and speaking up for themselves, women can transcend their potential and prevent their erasure. It’s time to embrace that power. Welcome to the V Suite, where women unapologetically own their vision, voice, visibility, and value.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine the impact of gender stereotypes and societal programming on women's ability to fully own their power
- Identify strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs that can hold women back from realizing their potential
- Discuss the intersectionality of identity and how it influences women's experiences of power and oppression
- Expand your vision discover or rediscover your voice, expand your vision, design your visibility strategy and recognize your value and differentiate it from your worth
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Meet Kelly
Kelly Charles-Collins is a sought-after authority specializing in unconscious bias, bystander intervention, and courageous conversations. Kelly has been revolutionizing the way leaders and employees learn about and address the issues of justice, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace; acknowledging the tension, resistance, associated with and the vital importance of these issues.
As a retired 20+ year employment law trial attorney turned keynote and award-winning TEDx speaker, author, podcast host and magazine publisher, Kelly understands first-hand the complexities of employer/employee and employee/employee relationships and feels compelled to lead a revolution to create safe, inclusive, accountable organizational cultures and environments where people see, appreciate, and respect each other’s humanity.
Kelly is also a remarkably powerful visionary and women’s empowerment speaker who believes there is a concerted effort to erase women’s value, and so she created Speaker Moguls™ and Ladies Who Leverage Global Network®.
Speaker Moguls™ is an exclusive program for women speakers to master the business of professional speaking and design a bankable brand strategy that gets them known and paid. Ladies Who Leverage® is a global network for women to connect authentically, build strategically, and live life unapologetically AF.
Kelly’s past clients have included Raymond James, eBay, Tampa Bay International Airport, United States Tennis Association, BayCare Health Systems, SHRM, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, Association Forum and many more.
A transformative keynote speaker and mentor, Kelly has been featured in some of the biggest media publications and outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, Time.com, Forbes, Fast Company, Authority Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, Thrive Global and more.
She is also the author of Conversations Change Things: The “PER”fect Framework for Courageous Conversations and Unapologetic AF: 34 Ways to Unleash Your Inner Badass.
