Expert Profile

Executive | Growth & Innovation Strategist | Advisor

Kelli Richards

Kelli serves as a trusted advisor and force multiplier, helping high-performing leaders and founders gain clarity, uncover critical insights, and navigate pivotal “what’s next” moments with confidence. She partners with those facing complex, high-stakes decisions to think more strategically, build resilience, and move from success to lasting significance. Ultimately, Kelli helps visionary individuals transform uncertainty into alignment, energy, and meaningful impact—unlocking greater fulfillment and results
in both their work and lives.
Kelli Richards

Areas of Expertise

  • Vision & Strategic Guidance
    High-level perspective and actionable direction for those in transition or reinvention—personally, professionally, or both.
  • Problem Solving & Prevention
    Addressing—and proactively avoiding—high-impact, costly challenges.
  • Transformation Pathways
    Guiding clients from where they are to where they want to be with clarity and intention.
  • Expanded Perspective
    Helping individuals get out of their own way by revealing new possibilities and unseen options.
  • Life & Legacy Design
    Mapping a game plan for a meaningful, no-limits life built on their own terms and freedom.
  • Personal Transformation
    Supporting the shift from feeling unseen and overwhelmed to empowered, energized, and aligned.
  • Leadership & Agency
    Instilling the sovereignty and confidence to lead with clarity, conviction, and ease.
  • Bespoke Approach
    Fully customized, high-touch work tailored to each individual.
  • Learn More
    Visit kellirichards.com/services for details on who she works with and how.

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More About the Expert:

Kelli Richards is a lifelong Silicon Valley innovator, leader and visionary; a long-time Apple exec mentored by Steve Jobs for decades. She works with some of the most innovative growth stage companies helping them to unlock the full vision of their founders and senior management teams as they continue to scale. providing continued support to c-suite management team leaders and clients on global growth strategy, key partnerships, and content and consumer initiatives. leveraging innovation and emerging technologies as well as new business models to work smarter, more efficiently, and to accelerate success.

A trusted advisor and a force multiplier who combines more than 25 years of senior level business experience in media/music/tech innovation with her talent for connecting individuals and teams to their work in a way that taps their potential and accelerates growth.

She continuously collaborate with clients to improve their unique circumstances, discover their wisdom, and reveal their blind spots to see things in a fresh way through multiple lenses. She helps them get out of their own way, see possibilities and strategies they’ve otherwise not thought of, and shares out of the box ideas that can propel their growth. Consequently, clients are more effective with others — and become the best version of themselves, as leaders, managers and people. Kelli’s clients value this approach as “professional, playful and consummately practical.” Learn more at kellirichards.com.

Miracles Happen to Those Who Believe
Kelli Richards
Executive | Growth & Innovation Strategist | Advisor