Kelleen Griffin is a consultant and coach and interim Chief of Staff.

A student of the human side of enterprise, Kelleen has presented to and worked with corporations and executives all over the world. She has been acknowledged as a gifted teacher, speaker, and coach and lauded for her ability to balance the practical realities of business with the authenticity of the human spirit.

Kelleen’s work as a coach and interim Chief of Staff is built on a strong foundation of corporate experience. Most recently, she was the interim Chief of Staff for Port Blakely Companies, a family-owned company here in Seattle, WA. She was Sr. Director of the Business Banking Board at Corporate Executive Board, a consulting firm in Washington, DC where she functioned as an international consultant and executive coach to her banking clients around the world. She’s worked on Wall Street in the M&A division of a large international bank and was the acting CFO of a hi-tech company. A former CPA, she started her career as an accoutant and worked for both Deloitte and Coopers as an auditor.

Kelleen has completed her Master of Science degree in Organizational Counseling from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an MBA from Columbia Graduate School of Business, and a BBA from Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame.

Kelleen has been a Guest Coach for the Washington Post and a Guest Columnist for the Washington Business Journal, and is currently a Guest Lecturer on emotional intelligence at the University of Washington’s Foster’s School of Business in the Center for Innovation and Entrpreneurship.

Kelleen’s work is to change corporate America into creative America, one leader at a time, by re-introducing curiosity and creativity back into corporate culture. Kelleen envisions a new working place, an energized community of purpose that is sustained, healthy, and prosperous.