Kelley Ashby is the founder and president of Kelley Ashby Consulting, LLC. She has over 20 years of experience in a variety of higher education administrative positions creating and managing academic courses and co-curricular programs focused on leadership, career, new employee development, education, and training. In addition, she has sixteen years of experience as an adjunct faculty member developing and delivering career, leadership, and competency development-related curriculum.

She created, directed, co-authored, and delivered the Career Leadership Academy curriculum and program (designed to develop leadership and career readiness skills); co-authored the chapter, “Building a Competency-Based Leadership Program with Campus-Wide Implementation”, for the New Directions in Student Leadership; and co-chaired an executive committee to engage faculty and staff in developing and implementing a campus-wide leadership initiative that infused Gallup’s Strengths and Dr. Corey Seemiller’s Student Leadership Competencies into numerous co-curricular and academic programs, services, and coursework. She currently consults with colleges, universities, businesses, and other organizations nationwide to assist them with their leadership and human resource talent development needs.