Kelly Simmons

Kelly Simmons was born in San Francisco, California. Her earliest creative work was writing poetry. And while she remembered wanting to be a journalist, she became a mechanical engineer. While living in Mexico, she wrote stories about locals that she had met, and maintained an online travel diary while traveling across South America on motorcycle. In 2010 her writing about how work-teams thrive was published in a book entitled, Do You Work or Collaborate (Spanish), in Spain. Beating the Odds represents her first co-authored book, and celebrates the nexus of her work in leadership and engineering.