Kelly is a public speaker and social design ethnographer who works at the intersection of social learning and digital participation. She works with individuals and organizations interested in learning how they can be more truly social. She is passionate about working with people to develop their vision, voice and social ways to live, work and learn.

She is a motivational speaker on social leadership, women, and social change and being your most confident self by being a stand for others.

Kelly is founder and curator of the social design studio, Live What You Love, and the storytelling initiative focused on amplifying the work and impact of women, Grateful4Her. She has a Ph.D. in Web Knowledge from UNSW (Sydney, Australia), is a Research Fellow in Social Leadership at the prestigious Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA). Her work has been published in peer-review business, technology and education journals, and featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, WSJ, The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Women.

Her work is published in Studies in Higher Education, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Psychology & Marketing, Behavior & Information Technology, International Journal of Retailing & Distribution Management, Marketing Review, Strategic Change, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Consumer Behaviour. She won best AM Paper for The Web Makes Me Feel project (2010), a BIMA award in Data Category for Karen (2015) and opened TedxCardiff 2011 speaking on Rediscovering Friendship.

Kelly is a BVA consultant for the Arts and Business Council of Chicago and a mentor for GirlsIN2STEM.