Testimonials & Clients

Kelly’s coaching has helped me to focus on where to best spend my time. She’s an excellent sounding board and through our conversations I have become clearer on my leadership vision and development goals. She always seems to ask the perfect questions to have you look at situations differently.  Kelly has a comforting and yet direct style that makes it easy to open up to her about the challenges you are facing as a leader.  

I have become a more well-rounded leader as he has helped me better focus on strategic priorities and find balance in my professional and personal life. She has become a trusted advisor to me and I always leave our conversations with more confidence in what I need to do next.   

Brent Noonan, Vice President of Sales, Uponor

Kelly focuses initially on understanding whom the individual/business is (their Brand) and their primary objectives.  With her nonjudgmental, supportive approach, and plethora of tools and experience she guides me to more quickly resolve everyday hurdles; meanwhile keeping me focused on moving toward the big picture and primary goals of the company.  

Kelly has been instrumental in helping me make sure that my company has a good solid foundation not only of staff and policies, but also culture and brand that I and my employees can be proud of.  She has held me accountable to make sure that I have a vision of where I want to go and the insight to remind me that the goal may not be worth having without work/life balance along the way.

Shawnee Christenson, CEO, Crosstown Insurance

As a CEO for over 24 years it is easy to become complacent- especially when things are going well. Over the past 12 years, I find that Kelly has helped me to keep moving forward and innovating for the future. Kelly is very good at engaging employees and getting them to open up. She helps them establish goals and coaches them through any obstacles that arise. If they fail she holds them accountable and keeps them trying.

Mario Crespo, President & CEO, National Exercise Trainers Association

Over the past 10 years the broadcast business has changes a great deal.  Our group reached out to Kelly because solution based selling has become immensely important in our business today.  We were in need of a speaker who could help us with brainstorming and learning new tactics to come up with ideas for clients. 

Kelly spoke to our management group and had us collaborate as a group in a 90 minute brainstorming session.  She touched on different ways to use the brain, things we had not known before her presentation.  Our station groups across the country have already implemented the new techniques with success.  Kelly did a great job opening up our minds to new ways of brainstorming and showed us how to be more creative.

John Seidl, Sales General, Manager Hubbard Radio

Kelly is an amazing speaker!  She energized our large audience by being real, offering specific and useful advice, all in a fun and engaging way.  We are making real changes immediately because of our time with Kelly.  I would highly recommend her.

Stacey Wempen, Senior Vice President, Head of Strategic and Operational Communications, U.S. Bank

Kelly is an energetic and most importantly, knowledgeable speaker. She is fun to listen to and is very engaging.  She had great examples and covered a lot of helpful content in a short amount of time.  I love that we were able to identify strategies I plan to implement with my own staff and would love to see her speak again.

Scott Wolf, CLU, CHFC, CASL President, Foster Klima, & Company

Kelly has helped me hear my Inner voice in order to put forth what is important to me. She has helped clarify my vision for my business and has brought out all of my strengths.

 What I especially like about Kelly is that she is so capable and smart with her business background. She can help focus my plans and dreams for business. She helps me with hearing my own voice. She has helped grow my business, make me a happier CEO, and able to see what my strengths are.

Kelly is accessible, understanding, and available. She is enthusiastic, kind, efficient and makes me like my job! I would highly recommend Kelly to anyone looking to clarify and make your work more enjoyable and efficient. She helps cut out the fat and focus on what is important. Kelly style is warm and personable and smart. It is so exhilarating to lead a company from your strengths and not focus on what you do not do well. 

Sarah Linner Quie, Executive Director & Owner, Prairie School of Dance

Kelly Leiker has helped me transform my business style from experimental to exceptional.  She has helped me transform my approach from insecure to confidant.  Kelly’s coaching style allows me to find the answers within myself. The keys to unlocking my own destiny have always been within me. Kelly has given me the tools to find them and the confidence to turn them.

Christa Anderson, CEO, Creo Arts & Dance Conservatory

Coaching is as much an art as it is a science.  Part psychology, part organizational dynamic and politic, part business process, part ‘time management’, part mental gymnastics with an eye toward introspection, behavioral change and self-actualization. 

Kelly Leiker is a master coach, a skilled diagnostician with an interesting therapeutic approach. She has a unique ability to sort through issues, to identify strengths and areas deserving of additional attention—all-the-while being thoughtful of a larger, overall framework.  Kelly’s enthusiasm and optimism are an asset; she is skilled, she is sensible, she is candid, she knows how and when to probe, push and cajole. She is a coach who helped me reach my true CEO potential

Stryker Warren, CEO Urologix, Medical Device Organization

I’ve had the good fortune to work with Kelly over the last couple of years. She is an expert career coach who helped me navigate some difficult professional and personal situations. I never doubted that she genuinely cared about helping me reach my professional and personal goals. Kelly helped me understand how by changing my own attitudes and behaviors, I could see situations from a totally different perspective.

It wasn’t always easy to admit that I needed to make some changes about my own approach. However, Kelly always let me know that she believed in me. She is incredibly responsive and organized. Her solid and consistent coaching helped me stay centered and helped me discover my own “true north.” I am grateful for every minute of my time with Kelly.

Sherri Mixter, Senior Director of Communications, National Church Residences

Kelly has been an invaluable resource in my professional life.  Her coaching has helped me to learn to manage competing priorities, challenging projects and in general helped give me the confidence to know that I am enough and can tackle any challenge! 

I started working with Kelly at a time when my personal life felt chaotic and work life was stressful.  Kelly worked her magic and was able to help me to learn strategies to manage it all.  She helped me to see the to see that taking care of myself was important.  And that by taking time to take care of me would allow me to manage and balance my home life and work life. 

Coleen Ryan. Director of Education, National Church Residences

Kelly is a positive and supportive coach who has good follow through on asking me about things I have been working on. She is very easy to talk to and has a wealth of experience to draw from to help problem solve and think through situations.  Kelly provides great examples from her own experiences which is helpful for me to think about other perspectives and become a stronger leader.

Terry Carter, Service Line Executive at HealthEast Care system

I've attended a few meetings where Kelly Leiker was the key note speaker. Without a doubt, she presented THE most useful, high energy, fun, information-packed training sessions I have ever attended. Kelly is an excellent presenter who has a superb understanding of not only the subject matter at hand, but of her audience as well.

She keeps her audience engaged through executing a well-planned, interactive curriculum, and handles questions with poise, compassion, and just the right amount of humor. Her depth of knowledge on personal coaching and development is unparalleled, and she hits the mark with everyone she coaches. I would highly recommend engaging Kelly as a speaker and a coach.

Mary Jo Lockbaum, CEO, The Sustainability Group