Leadership & Transition
Building trust and setting priorities during leadership change
Dr. Kelly’s leadership and transition experience reflects her ability to build trust, evaluate organizational needs, and guide teams through periods of change, growth, and uncertainty. Her work across nonprofit, healthcare, and disaster response settings demonstrates a balanced approach to transition leadership: listening first, identifying operational gaps, creating structure, communicating clearly, and aligning teams around shared priorities.
These work samples highlight her ability to lead through complexity while strengthening culture, improving systems, and positioning organizations for sustainable growth.
Gap Analysis Framework
Date: August, 2020
Organization: Kaiser Permanente
Role: National HR Transformation Leader
Leadership Focus:
Leadership & Transition | Organizational Redesign | Systems Assessment | Change Management
What It Demonstrates:
This sample demonstrates Dr. Kelly’s ability to assess organizational gaps, evaluate existing systems, and develop a structured framework to support large-scale change. The framework was developed using best practices from her doctoral work and later used by Kaiser Permanente to support the redesign of national HR functions and organizational structure.
Key Strengths Highlighted:
Organizational assessment
Gap analysis
Systems redesign
Evidence-based change leadership
Strategic problem-solving
Transition planning
Relevance:
This sample shows Dr. Kelly’s ability to lead through complexity by first understanding the current state, identifying barriers, and creating a practical roadmap for improvement. It is especially relevant for a role where trust-building, organizational assessment, and priority-setting are critical during a leadership transition.
Strategic Priority Dashboard
Date: May, 2021
Organization: Kaiser Permanente
Role: National HR Transformation Leader
Leadership Focus:
Leadership & Transition | Executive Communication | Strategic Alignment | Change Implementation
What It Demonstrates:
This sample highlights Dr. Kelly’s ability to bring clarity and structure to complex initiatives. She created a strategic planning framework and three-year strategic plan used by department leaders to report major program and project updates to Kaiser’s CEO and CHRO.
Key Strengths Highlighted:
Executive-level communication
Strategic planning
Cross-functional alignment
Leadership reporting
Initiative tracking
Organizational accountability
Relevance:
This sample demonstrates Dr. Kelly’s ability to communicate priorities clearly, align leaders around shared goals, and create reporting systems that support informed decision-making during times of organizational change.