Colleen Kelly

Experience

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  UMKC

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Coordinator-Alumni Relations

  Duties included but were not limited to: Delegate to the United Nations World Conference on Women-Beijing +5- http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/beijing+5.htm; Starr Symposium-Madam President broadcast by C-Span and Alumni Admissions Ambassadors.

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  University of Missouri-Kansas City

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  Manager-Alumni Relations

  Executive Director of the University Associates; Bounders; Alumni Admissions Ambassadors; Starr Symposium

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  UMKC

  Jan 2005 - Nov 2021

  Surfing the Matrix-Keeping Your Head Above Water in a Sea of Information. A focus on critical thinking in business. Students will analyze, interpret and/or reconstruct human events, experiences, actions and interactions through case studies that will help them understand the principles of value and civic duty in a wide range of settings. Students will be able to identify ethical problems in business, apply critical thinking concepts to better synthesize their understanding of ethical issues and moral reasoning and be able to articulate implications and consequences that emerge from critical thinking constructs when filtering, analyzing and synthesizing multiple variables. Show less

  • Adjunct Professor-Bloch School of Management

    Aug 2014 - Nov 2021

  • Project Director

    Jan 2004 - May 2016

  • Professor-Adjunct

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2013
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  CKCKC

  Jun 2016 - Nov 2021

  Project/Program Manager and LXD-Proven history of improving KPI's for teams.
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  Rockhurst University-Helzberg School of Management

  Aug 2016 - now

  Professor-Adjunct

  Courses Taught: Managerial Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Marketing Strategy

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  Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

  Nov 2016 - Oct 2017

  Professional Development & Inclusion Manager
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  United Way of Greater Kansas City

  Oct 2017 - Feb 2019

  Project Manager

  Project managed a mobile app with internal and external stakeholders; implemented and trained on an SOP process; facilitated community engagement planning with internal and external stakeholders, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data; and organization wide reporting to world wide headquarters data points/KPI's from all departments. Marketing and sales strategy for annual revenue goals which were increased from decling to flat during my tenure.

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  Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS

  Jan 2021 - now

  Project ManagementCommunications Strategic PlanningAccreditationPerformance ManagementQuality ImprovementFiscal Management

  • Manager-Strategic Operations and Communications

    Feb 2024 - now

  • ARPA Program Coordinator

    Mar 2022 - now

  • COVID-19 Project Manager

    Jan 2021 - Jun 2022