Owner & President
Kelly Walsh Consulting
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Kelly helps individuals and organizations achieve exceptional performance by applying specific tools and techniques that guide leadership development. She works on large scale vision and strategy but also deploys specific actionable steps that deliver measurable results.
Kelly has worked in a variety of industries including for profit, non-profit, and city government, but her heart is with the public sector where she can bring her strengths to the people who protect and serve our communities.
Uniquely qualified to work with Fire Departments, Kelly has 20+ years of experience in Human Resources with 10 years as an HR partner (partially embedded) to a 350-person municipal fire department in Mesa, Arizona.
In recent years as a consultant, she has focused her business on providing high performance leadership skills to Fire Chief Officers, Company Officers, and those who aspire to those roles. She created a leadership academy that includes follow up coaching and mentoring to keep the learning alive. Along with Retired Fire Chief Dan Jones (Chapel Hill, NC), she has taught countless Fire personnel through formal programs and speaking engagements.
Kelly has now brought this acclaimed leadership training to those who are unable to attend out of town training through the “Brave Fire Leader” on-line Academy. Her focus is on teaching leaders how skills on the fire ground can be used to address administrative problems. She and Jones co-authored Facing the Fire: Stories to Ignite Leadership Excellence published in April 2021 (available on Amazon).
She holds a Master of Education degree with a major in Counseling, is a certified leadership coach and mediator, and has worked in organizations as a recruiter, leader, mentor, trainer, coach, and strategist.
ELEC-210: Workplace Civility in a Polarized World
Thursday, August 17, 2023
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
COLS-304: A New Approach to Feedback : Moving Beyond the “Annual Misery” of Performance Reviews
Thursday, August 17, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM