
Kelly Harmon Schmitt ACC, CPC, ELI-MP is a certified professional coach, trainer and speaker. She does executive, leadership, career, and life coaching with an array of people from senior leadership to emerging leaders and mangers in a range of professions in the corporate, agency, academic, entrepreneurial, chapter-two career, and college-prep worlds.
Kelly’s goal is to help people to grow both professionally and personally based on their goals. She works with motivated individuals to become more self-aware, to identify and unblock the obstacles in their path, and to leverage their unique strengths and abilities to allow them to experience more rewarding careers and lives.
Her background includes 30 years in advertising in a range of industries including automotive, telecommunications, packaged goods, pharma, sports associations, and NGOs before getting her coaching certification. She is thankful to have a career doing what she loved in advertising and now in coaching and training. The constants have been her optimistic approach and a desire to make an impact. Kelly has achieved great success doing this and is grateful for the opportunity to help others.
Kelly does training and coaching with Strong Training and Coaching, an internationally renowned organization that offers training, coaching and facilitation to help everyone from individual contributors to executive leaders. Their bespoke programs build skills like building relationships of trust, critical thinking, managing different styles, managing stress and burnout, developing emotional intelligence, etc.
Kelly has credentials in ACC (Associate Certified Coach), CPC (Certified Professional Coach and ELI-MP (Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner) from IPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching) and is a member of the ICF (International Coaching Federation).