Kelly O'Connell Leiker
MBA
National Church Residences
VP of Supportive Housing
Kelly O’Connell Leiker is a Professional Speaker, Executive Coach, and the Owner of Leiker Development. She is currently a professor in the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota where she teaches advanced courses on strategic management, organizational leadership, and change and innovation.
Kelly has worked with National Church Residences for over 7 years and has a true passion for the organization's mission and the truly dedicated people who serve it. Over the past 18 years, she has coached many leaders to help them to look at leadership challenges through a new lens.
Helping leaders think about how they can best lead and inspire others while still taking care of themselves is a passion of hers. Her coaching style is compassionate, honest, encouraging, and application based. When partnering with clients, they will use models, content, and current research to support practical strategies uniquely tailored to each leader.
Kelly has degrees in psychology, and communication and an MBA in business management. She loves a good book, a funny joke, and a restorative yoga class when at all possible. She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her family.
Creative Strategies for Brighter Tomorrows: Maximizing The Joy In What We Do
This session will focus on the world we have been living in, while providing creative strategies and tools that support maximizing the joy in what we do at National Church Residences for our residents. We will talk about the Covid Hangover, the State of OUR State as leaders of the mission, what brings us joy, how to Embrace the Shake, and apply creative innovation techniques to help us create brighter tomorrows.
Property Manager Excellence:
Strategies & Secrets for Success
This session will give property managers a chance to explore opportunities to collaborate and be more effective. We will apply creativity techniques to real-life situations that face property managers so that they can leave the conference with concrete tools and actions they can take back to be successful with residents.