Leadership Conversations That Move Beyond Inspiration

Beyond the Box

Leadership is shaped by more than title or skill.

Roles, expectations, identity, responsibility, culture, and the systems around us all influence how we lead and what we believe we are supposed to carry.

Beyond the Box is Corinna Kelley's speaking platform for examining those intersections and helping people consider what leadership requires when circumstances change.

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Speaker Kit

Signature Topics

  • Ready or Not: Lead What's Next

    For pivotal moments when a role, responsibility, or circumstance changes and the old way no longer fully fits.

    Best for: Emerging leaders and professionals navigating transition.

  • Lead Like a Coach

    Help others think, decide, and take ownership instead of becoming the person who solves everything.

    Best for: Managers, supervisors, mentors, and people developing others.

  • When Responsibility Outpaces Capacity

    Examine how expectations, authority, communication, workload, culture, and ways of working shape what leaders are being asked to carry—and what may need to change.

    Best for: Leadership teams and organizations navigating changing demands, roles, or capacity.

Sessions Built Around the Audience

What Participants can Expect

    • Practical ideas and useful distinctions

    • Reflection connected to real situations

    • Facilitated discussion

    • Real-world scenarios and application

    • Questions and tools participants can continue using

    • A practical decision, conversation, or next step to carry forward

    The format may change. The expectation does not: people should leave with something useful to do with what they heard.

Speaking Formats & Selected Examples

  • Keynote

    NatCon25 Ted-Style Talk

    Beyond the Box- Reimaging Community Health Narrative.

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  • Interactive Workshop

    National Network of Public Health Institute (Public Health Improvement Training)

    Mission for Success: Creating Equitable and Measurable Community Improvement

  • Conference Presentation

    National Network of Public Health Institute Emerging Leader Forum

    Ready & Resilient: Embracing Diversity, Inclusion and Cultural Awareness for Enhanced Resilience and Adaptability

  • Organizational Training

    Maintaining resiliency through change

    West Virginia University

  • Conference Breakouts & Workshop

    Florida Public Health Association — Ready to Lead: Restoring Capacity to Strengthen Public Health Practice.

  • Facilitated Community of Practice

    CDC Foundation — recurring facilitated learning across 23 veteran-serving organizations.

  • “I had the pleasure of meeting Corinna and hearing her speak at NatCon25. Her story is deeply compelling, and the vulnerability she showed while sharing her journey of identity through different stages of life was both powerful and relatable. Corinna is engaging, authentic, and radiates a contagious energy and warmth. I’m excited to see what’s next for her—she’s definitely someone to watch.”

    -Jarmichael Harris

  • "The session was engaging, informative, and an appropriate amount of time was spend on each key point. One of the best presentations I've ever attended"

    —West Virginia University Participant

  • "A professional team that delivers on their promises."

    —Former Customer

  • "I found the Assess, Clarify, Choose process you shared to be so accessible for situations when capacity is stretched. It's simple, makes sense, and is easy to apply. Applying the Assess, Clarify, Choose process to our own situations was particularly helpful. I liked having the opportunity to think about a situation/challenge that I have or am facing to see how the process could help me navigate it. "

    —2026 FPHA Participant

Bring Corinna Into the Conversation

Tell us about your audience, what they are navigating, and what you want them to be able to think about or do differently when the session ends.

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