Ann Houston Kelley enables people in global organizations to have conversations about the ‘things that matter’. She coaches senior international executives, designs and facilitates global team development and consults with organizational leaders on change, cross-cultural (diversity) matters, expatriation and women’s leadership.
Starting in 1995, she built a successful niche executive coaching firm (Nomadic Life) based in the Netherlands and operating across Europe and the Middle East. She has coached and consulted with corporate leaders from 57 countries across 7 sectors (consultancy, UN & European agencies, electronics, financial services, petrochemical, bio-pharma and retail).
Her international background (American-Dutch in NL 20 years), her diverse professional background (economist and family systems psychotherapist) and work experience (marketing analyst, IT manager, HR specialist, psychotherapist for international executives and their families) all help her to relate more effectively to her clients and their situations.
She is a senior associate of the Insead Global Leadership Center and the Center for Creative Leadership. She is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research and the American Psychological Association. She is the author of the chapter “Coaching Executives across Cultures” in Coach and Couch The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (edited by Manfred Kets-deVries, Insead Press, Palgrave McMillan 2007).
She has been an invited speaker at the International Relocation & Mobility Conference (Oman, 2009), the EuRA (European Relocation Association) Conference (Rome, 2008), the Women on the Move Conferences (Brussels, Paris, London, 1996, 1998. 2000, 2002) and the SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) Europa Conferences (Poitiers, Trieste, 1997, 1999).
Senior Network Associates
Ann has a strong and diverse network of senior associates who work for her on a project basis. They are international, experienced, multilingual and represent a variety of key professional disciplines.