Kelly Ross is an exceptional leadership coach. As a transitioning military service member, I was skeptical about leadership coaching or any coach whatsoever. Kelly helped me to identify my passion, match my skills and find a career that was a natural fit for my personality and drive. While most of my colleagues were trying to match their military experience with the next job, Kelly had me find my natural ambition and channel it into something I am grateful to get out of bed every day to do.

– Entrepreneur & Veteran

Supportive -- yet challenging, is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Kelly. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Kelly over the last 9 months in her executive coaching program. From our first meeting, I was impressed with her ability to understand and connect with me, albeit with very little information of my current circumstances. Her ability to actively listen, ask thoughtful questions, and provide clear perspectives, tool, templates, and other reference materials was extremely helpful in my journey. Kelly was able to do all of that while building a relationship stronger than just a coach/client, which I hold equally (if not more) valuable as the lessons learned. Kelly’s experience, personality, and dedication would be a sincere asset for any leader looking to navigate their current or future landscape and comes with my heartfelt recommendation.

– Leader in Professional Services & Learning Simulations

Kelly helped me clarify my leadership skills, grow more confident in my decision making, and understand the value of my voice and insight. I'm incredibly grateful for our time working together and the leader she helped me become!

– Higher Education Leader

I worked with Kelly as I was making a job transition. Kelly is a genuine and caring coach. She is easy to connect to, had great questions, and created the space and time for me to reflect on what I wanted next in my career. I always left our sessions feeling as if I had learned something about myself, my current situation, and what I wanted in the future. I would recommend her to other looking to make a similar change in their careers.

– Executive making career transition

I unequivocally recommend Kelly Ross's coaching services. Kelly is a phenomenal coach, always sensitive to her clients' individual needs and able to balance that delicate tension between pushing you to grow and meeting you where you are. Thanks to Kelly, I was able to step into a new role with a stronger perspective on not only what had gotten to me where I was, but more importantly, what I needed to do differently to continue to be successful.

– Director in Learning Organization

Working with Kelly helped me identify, focus on, and improve in key areas of my job. She provided me with an invaluable forum in which to discuss the challenges of my role within the organization. She has a knack for asking the right questions, which encourages introspection without feeling pressured. Her recommendations have proven invaluable in helping me manage my over-the-top workload.

– Executive at nationally recognized not-for-profit

I was incredibly fortunate to have been coached by Kelly Ross on a pro bono basis during an exciting and challenging time in my career. Kelly was critical to my success during the year she coached me and the confidence that I have been able to sustain since then. She pushed me to be disciplined and stick to the leadership goals that I set at the beginning of the coaching engagement, while remaining flexible and helping me to process unexpected management challenges. She guided me through a process of reflection and self-awareness, helping me to understand who I was as non-profit leader, what my leadership values and assets were, and how I could use these as I was helping to build and scale our organization’s program infrastructure, reach, staff, and operations. She not only listened and asked the right questions, but shared relevant and helpful articles, and offered valuable management and leadership advice based on her impressive experience as a management consultant. I would recommend that all professionals find the time to reflect on their leadership and their management during times of growth and change, even though we feel like time does not permit. And I would recommend that they consider working with Kelly, who is a coach one can trust to listen and push you to the next level.

– Non-Profit Leader

My coaching relationship [with Kelly] was incredibly valuable.  I left each session with a golden nugget of insight about myself and a direction for exploring more.

– Manager in higher education

Kelly gave me a new perspective on thinking about things; I really appreciated her perspective. I believe Kelly is a great sounding board that offered unbiased advice. 

– Senior Associate, Big Four accounting firm

I cannot say enough good things about the coaching I received from Kelly Ross. Recently, I decided to leave an industry I had been in for the past 8 years for a new career, and Kelly was able to help me think holistically about that decision, supporting me each step the way. She had a gift for helping me tease out how I was feeling as well as offering up her own wisdom at precisely the right time. Kelly also has a keen eye for recognizing patterns: she helped me identify attributes of my decision-making style and how they have shaped my professional and life decisions time and time again. It was such a pleasure working with her, and she will be my first call when I find myself in need of support again!

– Leader in Professional Services

Kelly impacted my life, my team, my family, and probably even my future career choices. I feel so appreciated and satisfied. Thank you for understanding me, for making me feel safe, for digging deep into those dark, hurt areas, shining light and healing, and helping me accelerate this process. When I think of you, I think maybe one day I could be a coach. I love what you do, and for it I am forever grateful.

– Manager at global management consulting firm

I’ve been working with Kelly of almost two years now and have significantly benefited from the partnership.  Kelly provides a great forum to discuss the challenging situations I face as a Leader within my Organization.  Her guidance and approach has helped me advance in my career and evolve my Leadership skills.

– Sales Leader, Analytics

Kelly was a great fit for me!  I had the privilege of working with her when I was internally promoted into a role where I was stepping into the shoes of a beloved leader who was retiring and had to transition from being a peer to being a manager.  Not only did I gain insights from our one-on-one sessions, but Kelly also interviewed my staff and synthesized feedback on their perspectives of my first year as president. I am grateful for Kelly’s perceptive prompting and would recommend her to anyone who wants to lead authentically.

– President, Family Foundation

I interviewed several executive coaches before I decided on Kelly. She was selected because she truly focused on me- asking me thoughtful questions on the progress I was looking to make. Kelly served as an unbiased thought partner to talk through leadership decisions such as performance challenges with staff members and a reorganization of my team. Where I truly found power is understanding more about myself and how to bring best of me to leading others - including peers, business partners and my own manager.

– Sales Leader, Investments

When I originally reached out to Kelly, I was looking for someone to talk about my own personal growth, outside of my organization. Kelly certainly provided that and more. Coaching helped me to see things from a different point of view, or through a different lens and to understand how I present myself, and how others might view me. This has helped me not only within my organization, but also with external client partners. Kelly was a great resource, she listened well and she kept me on track when I diverted off my plan.

– Vice President, Construction

I’ve been working with Kelly of almost two years now and have significantly benefited from the partnership.  Kelly provides a great forum to discuss the challenging situations I face as a Leader within my Organization.  Her guidance and approach has helped me advance in my career and evolve my Leadership skills.

– Vice President Business Development, Analytics

Supervision is a gift to yourself because it gives you time and space to process some of the complex coaching situations you may be faced with over the course of an engagement. Kelly has an open and collaborative process. She really listens and asks thought provoking questions that supported me in finding experiments and solutions to try out.

– Leadership Coach

Working with Kelly as my coaching supervisor helps me analyze what’s working and what needs to shift and grow within my own coaching practice. Kelly supports my growth by helping me navigate new or tricky client situations and ground me in coaching best practices. As an experienced coaching professional, she is an invaluable sounding board and I am incredibly grateful for her insight and expertise.

– Leadership Coach

I found great value in supervision. It created time and space for me to reflect on my own growth as a coach, to stretch my thinking about how I approach my work, and recenter myself on what I find most important.

– Internal Coach

I found coaching supervision with Kelly to be valuable because you don't have to explain anything about your business or clients - she just gets it so you can go right to the heart of the matter. Kelly also does a great job of blending the mutual exploring and probing with sharing her relevant experience and perspectives to help her clients work through things.

– Leadership Coach

As coaches, we know everyone has blindspots and set patterns of behavior based on our own unique life experiences and upbringing. Supervision is critical to ensuring that as coaches, our own issues aren’t intruding on the space we need to create for clients.

– Leadership Coach

Going through group supervision was like realizing you are able to breathe under water. When I brought my case to the group, I received so many great perspectives that I wouldn't have been able to think about by myself. It helped me to see a path forward when I was feeling so stuck. I also found a lot of comfort in realizing I wasn't alone with some of the struggles I was experiencing. Additionally, I got so much (maybe more?) out of hearing other people's cases and learning from the things they were struggling with. There is something special and unique about reflecting in a group of coaches that can't be replicated any other way. Kelly did an amazing job of holding the container for us to share openly, and learn collectively.

– Leadership Coach

"Supervision with Kelly created a beautiful bridge for me. I started to work with Kelly shortly after completing my certification program while also taking on new coaching engagements through my employer as I was working towards my ACC credential. My time with Kelly was incredibly valuable as it gave me a safe space to ask questions and navigate some trickier internal coaching situations I found myself in where I no longer had a cohort of people to ask weekly. In addition, having a supervisory practice supported me to feel more confident in my coaching abilities."