Kelley Freeman, Ph.D.
Kelley is a principal of The
Align Group, an organizational psychology firm that evaluates and enhances the
linkages between a company’s key components—values, mission, vision, strategy,
plans, leadership, teams and skills—to ensure that it directs maximum force
toward achieving its critical business objectives. He is a Magna Cum Laude
graduate (BBA Finance) of Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, and
possesses an MA in Theology and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Fuller
Theological Seminary. Kelley and his wife Julie have three children and live in
San Antonio, Texas.
Kelley’s executive and behavioral science expertise makes him uniquely
suited to coach leaders from all walks of life, and to make a lasting impact on
them, their organizations, and their colleagues, while accomplishing their
critical business objectives. He also helps organizations to identify, assess,
and develop their talent; to create strategic and tactical plans for fast-change
environments; and to form and lead teams that innovate and execute to create
sustainable competitive advantage. He is co-author of the C.O.A.C.H.™
training program that has been used to teach hundreds of business leaders how to
grow their people; he is also author of the C5 Strategic Planning Workshop™
and the C5 Navigator™, powerful software
that enables teams to define their long-term goals and to translate them into
here-and-now plans of action.
Kelley
understands the intense challenges faced by business leaders. As President/CEO
of a startup technology company, he recruited and led a team of senior
executives from the healthcare industry that created a web-based medical records
and transaction management company. Kelley raised venture capital; managed
investor relations; negotiated joint ventures and mergers; and directed
strategy, planning, and execution of product development, marketing, sales, and
service. Under his leadership, the venture grew to over 20 states. Kelley is also
Founder/President of HealthWare, a medical software company for long-term care
institutions. HealthWare products manage over $500 million in medical claims
each year.
Earlier in
his career Kelley served in the United States Air Force, on the faculty of
Wilford Hall Medical Center. His work on organizational reengineering led to
invited national presentations for the Department of Defense and the American
Psychological Association, and to a grant from the National Institutes of
Health.