Global leadership

Psychologically sound leadership development, consulting and executive coaching.

Leadership development
& executive coaching

LEAP Leadership is the consulting practice of Dr. Lily Kelly-Radford, a psychologist with four decades of experience in learning, consultation, and coaching to enhance performance of global organizations.

Biography

Lily Kelly-Radford, PhD is a leadership development consultant and an executive coach to clients worldwide. In these roles, she designs, customizes, and delivers leadership work globally. Lily enjoys working with clients from all industry sectors and the complex challenges they face such as developing talent and empowering people, leading collaboration and teamwork, decision making and driving performance.

Lily’s coaching style would be considered fusion coaching. She uses her skills as a clinical psychologist and blends them with a multi-disciplinary approach that takes one’s complete lifestyle into account and applies it to business coaching. Her business acumen and global experience positions her uniquely to fuse various approaches to achieve evidence-based results.

Lily has managed executive training programs for leading business schools including University of North Carolina Executive Development, Duke Corporate Education and HEC Paris. For the last five years, she has spent more than 25 weeks a year teaching in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Lily has also been responsible for the development and identification of executive coaches to deliver services in these regions.

Her career focus has been working with leaders of multinational corporations with specific emphasis in energy, financial services, private equity real estate, and medicine.

Lily is President of LEAP Leadership, Inc., a leadership firm focused on high profile clients in a variety of business and non-business professions. The firm has a special focus on global leadership as well as working with impact driven organizations. Earlier in her career, she served as executive vice president of global markets at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), where she led worldwide delivery of executive education in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Assignments in the US and abroad have covered program delivery, faculty management, and sales and marketing. Lily was also chief psychologist for 450 worldwide feedback and coaching specialist. Additionally, she was responsible for the startup of the CCL location in Asia, the turnaround in Europe and new strategies for business. Lily previously served as Director of the Center’s flagship open-enrollment program, the Leadership Development Program (LDP).

Before joining the Center in 1990, Lily maintained a private practice and consulted with organizations. She has also served as an assistant attending psychologist with Harvard Medical School, as a tenured associate professor of psychology at Howard University, and as an employee of the Central Intelligence Community.

Dr. Kelly-Radford holds a B.S. in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and is published in academic, psychological, and business publications.

Outside of Lily’s academic work, she enjoys traveling with her husband of 37 years, spending time with her 3 adult children, the performing arts, assisting young adults who have limited academic guidance, and coaching high profile emerging leaders.

LEAP Leadership global experience

“There is no question that Dr. Lily Kelly-Radford’s capacity to listen deeply, ask thoughtful and clarifying questions, generously share her wisdom gleaned from years of experience, and empower me to lead from my strengths enabled me to have a wonderfully productive, enjoyable, and successful year as President of the American Psychological Association (2014).”


– Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP
Past President, American Psychological Association, Professor and Vice Chair, Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Development Services

Kindership™

Kindership™ is our process of leadership development that emphasizes human respect and connection as a core competency for leadership. Kindness acts as a catalyst for performance. Leadership can be propelled by kindness. It increases engagement and inclusion and builds cohesion and commitment. While kindness emanates from individual actions, when fully incorporated in organizational systems, it drives performance. Building kindness in organizational systems and policies allows it to be knitted into the culture of the company. 

Executive Coaching

LEAP provides executive coaching to prepare managers and executives for new or next-level assignments for improved performance for the organization and greater career satisfaction for the individual. Using assessments, feedback and action plans, LEAP clients become more effective leaders through self awareness and practice.

Leadership Development

Learning organizations invest in continuing executive development as a proven strategic competitive advantage. LEAP is a learning partner with Fortune 1000 businesses, government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO). It designs programs to improve group and individual performance, assure effective succession plans and hone talent management for organizational success.

Executive Education

Lily Kelly-Radford, PhD, and her associates serve as adjunct faculty with global business schools. LEAP Leadership develops and implements degreed and non-degreed curricula for executive education and leadership development, including executive MBA programs, on all continents.

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