After decades of success—launching her career at 19 in Silicon Valley’s top brand and PR firms, generating over $750 million for global brands, and running her own high-performing companies—Kelly hit the breaking point of a broken model. Following the traditional entrepreneurial playbook, she built a multi-business empire that looked successful from the outside but was misaligned and plagued by underperforming team members. When market volatility collided with poor strategic execution, the cracks became canyons. The business collapsed, forcing her into one of the most devastating—and defining—chapters of her career.

While that failure would have taken down most CEO's, Kelly catalyzed it to become the reinvention of a lifetime to focus on her most important legacy work of her career.

In the ashes of her former company, Kelly saw the truth: the old model wasn’t just flawed, it was bankrupting brilliant entrepreneurs—financially, emotionally, and creatively. She dismantled everything that wasn’t aligned, distilled decades of expertise into proprietary methodologies, and rebuilt with precision. Phoenix Growth Partners, Inc. was born—not as another consulting firm, but as a category-of-one strategic partner for innovative leaders and legacy builders who know the old model is flawed, but don’t know how to rise out of the paradigm.

Today, Kelly and her team work exclusively with elite, impact-driven entrepreneurs—many serving affluent and ultra-affluent markets—who want more than incremental growth. Using frameworks like the Fusion Paradigm™, Marketing to Millionaires™, and PartnerCore™, Phoenix Growth Partners, Inc. helps clients achieve high-profit scalability, unicorn category leadership, and long-term legacy. Her mission: to model a new era of entrepreneurship where alignment, innovation, and measurable results replace hustle, complexity, and burnout.

Kelly’s thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, ABC, and more than 1,000 media interviews. She has shared stages with icons including Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Jack Canfield, and is the author of the trilogy—Insolvent, EPIC AF, and The Fusion Paradigm™—guides for transforming setbacks into sustainable legacies. She also hosts the EPIC AF Podcast, where she has candid conversations with industry disruptors redefining what’s possible in business.

Off stage, Kelly is as grounded as she is visionary. You might find her wake surfing, perfecting her tennis forehand, or chasing her Tibetan Terriers, London and Addison, and their mischievous little brother, Remmington. She’s the type to hold doors, spark conversations with strangers, and share some Gen X humor—whether she’s in jeans and flip-flops at the farmers market or on a global stage.

The old model nearly broke her. The new model is changing everything—for her, for her clients, and for the future of entrepreneurship.