Michelle Kelley Principal, Project Manager
Michelle is a change management and strategic communications leader with more than 20 years of experience guiding workforce adoption, executive messaging and public relations across Fortune 500, financial services, healthcare, education and nonprofit organizations. A Prosci Certified Change Management Professional who also holds the Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute, she translates complex technology, process and organizational changes into clear guidance for executives, employees and frontline teams. Her background spans business readiness, stakeholder engagement, training, crisis response, employee communications, media relations and global program management. At Curtis Consulting, she is positioned to lead change management and communications for technology modernization, digital transformation and enterprise implementation programs.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Executive leadership; client delivery
- Cloud-based SaaS solution
- Enterprise systems integration
- Applied analytics (ML, simulation, statistics, GIS)
- Program governance
- Consulting
- C-Suite Advisor
- Strategic Vision
- Public Relations
- Change Management
- Content & Media Development
- Content Strategy
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Michelle brings more than 20 years of change management and strategic communications experience to Curtis Consulting, helping clients prepare their people for technology modernization, digital transformation, and enterprise implementations. Her background across Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations spans business readiness, stakeholder engagement, executive messaging, training, public relations, and crisis response. She connects transformation goals with the information, guidance, and support employees need to adopt new systems and ways of working.
Michelle has supported multiyear transformations across finance, sales, customer experience, and field operations, translating complex changes into practical guidance for teams ranging from business leaders to dispatchers and drivers. She combines change-impact and readiness assessments with stakeholder planning, communications, and training to identify adoption risks and limit operational disruption. Her experience building repeatable readiness programs, tools, and playbooks helps organizations strengthen their own capacity to manage change. For Curtis Consulting’s clients, she brings a structured, people-centered approach to implementation, supported by the judgment needed to communicate clearly during both planned transitions and moments of uncertainty.
Michelle is a seasoned communications professional who is both strategic and detail oriented. She is reliable, organized and consistently develops solid PR programs to help enhance her clients' brand, mindshare and reputation. From Fortune 500 companies to non-profits and start-ups, Michelle is a PR guru who seeks results, and gets them.
Michelle has a way with words, and can make your ideas a reality.