at the TOP

About Kellie

This didn’t start with a title.

For most of my career, I was the person people came to when they couldn’t talk to anyone else inside the organization. Not because of my position, often despite it. I was in operational and service roles, head of department, working my way through organizations where I had no formal authority over the people who sought me out. And yet they came. Leaders above me. Peers navigating something they couldn’t name to anyone with a stake in it. Employees carrying things that had nowhere else to go.

What I gave them wasn’t advice. It was a space where they could finally think out loud with someone who had no agenda in what they decided.

That pattern followed me through every role I held. Most recently as Director of Global Culture and Employee Experience at a private equity firm, where I served as a confidential resource for more than 50 senior leaders across the globe. The message always came the same way: Can we talk? Not from people looking for guidance. From leaders carrying something they couldn’t bring to anyone else, a decision with no clean answer, a relationship quietly breaking down, a call already made that they couldn’t stop second-guessing.

What I saw, across all of it, was the same structural reality. The higher a leader goes, the more their circle fills with people who have something to gain or lose from what they decide. And the conversations that matter most end up happening nowhere.

I built at the TOP because that gap doesn’t fix itself and because I’d already spent years being the person who filled it inside organizations. This is the same work, without the constraints of an org chart.

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What this actually is

at the TOP is not a coaching program. There’s no curriculum, no framework to work through, no intake process that ends with a package.

It’s a confidential, ongoing thought-partnership, 1:1, structured around what you’re navigating, with someone who has no connection to your organization and no stake in what you decide.

I work with CEOs, business owners, and senior leaders in organizations of ten or more people. Experienced, capable, and successful by every external measure. Quietly aware that the list of people they can genuinely talk to has gotten shorter, not longer.

If that’s where you are, I’d welcome a conversation.

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