Kelly Rippon

Kelly Rippon is an author, inspiring speaker, Olympic parent, and single mom of six amazingly accomplished kids. Kelly is also a relatable and humorous storyteller. She shares some of these stories that offer the reader ideas how to grow their optimism, maintain flexibility during interruptive change and increase their confidence and self worth through authentic leadership.

Kelly Rippon started her consulting company, Authentic Change, Inc., in 2006 with the mission of “Changing the world one conversation at a time.” She's traveled extensively across Asia, Europe, and throughout the United States speaking to and interviewing hundreds of people about how the influences they met had shaped their perspectives. Those conversations combined with her work as a college instructor, corporate trainer, and single mother of six incredible children, including her oldest son, Olympic medalist, Adam, prompted her to write, "PARENT UP" an empowering book about developing an effective leadership perspective, while building resiliency, empathy and optimism.

While Kelly wrote her book through the eyes of a parent, but she adapts the concepts to meet the needs of the audience and notes that living each day as an effective leader elevates personal competency and can be a gateway to the next level of success. She shares stories that offer a fresh outlook that link the reader to their positive influential power. Kelly also offers actions and behaviors that increase credibility and grow positive habits while also helping us recognize the need to discard the negative influences that work against us.

Kelly fills her presentations with authentic charm, influential motivation and breaks down complex issues into understandable pieces. Whether Kelly is speaking at a college parent orientation, sports coaching conference or corporate leadership convention, her expertise from the boardroom to the classroom makes a positive impact, activates cooperative thinking, and brings out the best in people!