Lead Yourself Forward

From Blocked to Bold: Leading Yourself Forward Workshop
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION (link below)

An afternoon of investment in you... your achievement, goals, mindset and future -
surrounded and supported by other high-achieving women
navigating their own unique journeys

Feeling the very real impact of the Broken Rung, Glass Ceiling or Silver Ceiling?
Questioning if the path you’re on is the path you truly want?
Feeling “stuck” – yet not sure why?
Ready to learn how to apply the Forward Framework to move to YOUR forward, YOUR way?

If any of these resonate, please join me on Wednesday, May 6 for an interactive, action- and outcomes-focused workshop. In this hands-on workshop, you will:

Clarify what success truly means to you now
Identify the internal and external blocks that can stall momentum
Build a practical framework to move forward with confidence and intention
Create a path toward your own forward and “Point Break Life”

You will leave this workshop owning a clarified vision with very specific actions to get there – including an accountability plan to ensure it sticks. You’ll also leave with the amplified self-awareness required to work through the internal forces holding you back, as well as navigate the external forces in a more productive way.

Again – the session is interactive, reflective, and action-oriented – not a lecture.

What’s included:

3.5-hour facilitated workshop
Printed workbook and tools
Opportunity to connect with other professional women
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BONUS!!!

As a special SMALL BUSINESS WEEK bonus, participants will also receive a followup 1:1 coaching session! This will be one, one-hour session with Executive Coach Kelly Wittry, to be used anytime in 2026. This is a great opportunity to dive deeper into insights gained in the workshop or any other topic of choice.

REGISTER NOW!
It's Time to Make YOUR Waves

From Blocked to Bold: Leading Yourself Forward
Wednesday, May 6 | 1:00–4:30 PM | GR Chamber

This is the sign you've been waiting for:
you are worth the time and investment!
Seats are limited; first-come, first-served registration!
Early-bird pricing available through April 15.
Standard pricing applies starting April 16.
Logistics to be shared upon registration.
Register below!
Further questions?
Please contact Kelly Wittry at kelly@wavespotential.com.

Let's GO!

Imagine knowing, with certainty, what you want your best next chapter to be. Imagine how it would feel to wake up each day with that clarity. How would you carry yourself? How would you treat those around you? How would you view yourself? The world?

Now imagine that you not only know what you want, but that you are making it happen. You are motivated, each and every day, to make progress toward your goals – no matter what stands in your way. No more “Sunday Scaries”; no more wondering why you’re stuck and not knowing what to do about it. Imagine having that motivation and ability for the rest of your life, whether within your personal realm or professional. With a plan and a mindset, it’s possible!

Kelly is a treasure of an executive coach. She has an extraordinary gift to connect and help identify what is holding you back and work with it to find your best potential. She is flexible, curious, supportive, also very knowledgeable on effective tools and approaches to untangle, reframes and help find new more effective paths. Her energy is contagious as well!. Thank you, Kelly, for helping me re-energize and strengthen my leadership and broadening my impact at scale.

Carolina Rogoll, Author, "Star Brands: A Brand Manager's Guide to Build, Manage & Market Brands"

I felt that I often have an unorthodox was of looking at things and was looking for support to better tap into my potential and apply it effectively. [I learned] that I find it difficult to open up about my improvement areas, but that it helps me a lot when I do! Kelly listened very well and gave me a lot of time to reflect and gave me the feedback I needed to dare and go on the journey. Kelly guided me very well to confront my own limitations and work on them (self-confidence!!!). After coaching with Kelly, I am really happy that I did it and would consider doing it again any time. It has changed the way I apply myself to my work and private life. The results of my team have been outstanding the last 6 months, and I get a lot of very positive feedback from the organization that reports to me. Personally, coaching helped my set boundaries and better live up to my commitment to my family. Which then also reflects on my work – virtuous circle!

Bettina Froehner, Senior Sales Director, P&G Europe

[The employee] was able to increase their effectiveness 4x fold in communications with company senior leadership. The development opportunities that the coaching process identified were dead on in terms of what was needed to help the individual take their communications to the next level. Now they are more able to read the room, respond with increased agility, and make their points much more effectively. Consequently, this has made the employee more efficient and efficacious in almost every aspect of their job. I attribute 100% of this to Kelly’s effectiveness as an executive coach.

John Long, VP Human Resources, Procter & Gamble NA Product Supply Transformation Leader

Navigating the transition to a new level in your organization is one that requires intentionality and strategy. By partnering with a coach, I was able to create a safe space to process the transitions needed in my own leadership style AND build in the intentional time to think about these things. Coaching has helped me action change faster. I now have a more structured framework for how I think about what changes are needed and can get to quicker actioning resulting in more speed, agility and improved turnaround on results. I found Kelly’s style to be extremely effective. She perfectly balanced thought provoking questions with contextually relevant examples and thought starters that helped me make connections and grow.

Chelsey Harshman, Senior Brand Director, P&G North America Feminine Care

Working with Kelly has proven to be the gamechanger I’ve needed to gain clarity on where I truly want to be and what’s standing in my way. Not just a coach, but a true partner, Kelly strikes a critical balance between showing compassion, demonstrating curiosity, and promoting small acts of courage that lead to big results.

Bari G., Director of Leadership Development, Fortune 500 Company, Brooklyn, NY

My time with Kelly has been the catalyst for profound changes in my life. Kelly helped me during a time of transition as I balanced my family, health and professional goals. Kelly's unique insight and her attention to the not so obvious lends to her overall energy and excellence. I am moving forward more grounded in my core values and clear on my why. I strongly recommend anyone in transition reach out to Kelly!

Lisa, Mom, MS Warrior and Business Owner, CT

Thank you for the amazing coaching sessions over the last 6 months. We started with a specific goal to further my ability to ‘Envision’ in my journey of personal development towards senior leadership, but you enabled me to uncover so much more about my strengths, areas I could stretch myself and also helped me identify my blind spots. What helped me the most is the balance that you brought in your approach - exploratory yet with some broad principles & framework. The exploratory approach enabled me to have unconstrained thinking on different dimensions for my growth while the frameworks / principles helped me converge on areas of focus. At the end of these sessions, I loved how we always had few things for me to take back which I could ponder upon and also bring it to life in my day to day work. I appreciate the openness you brought to our sessions which made me comfortable sharing my deepest fears without worrying about getting judged – I think that was a gamechanger for me to really uncover the challenges and work on them vs. just scratching the surface. I truly believe the coaching sessions have positively impacted my way of thinking and approaching the business and the organization which has also enabled great business results for me and my team. Thank you Kelly for investing in me and pushing my limits to make progress towards my goal!

Vinita P, Brand Director, Procter & Gamble Asia

To succeed in my new role, I had to improve not only my influence down the organization through indirect management relationships but also understand how to influence up and manage different organizational stakeholders [across regions]. This was even more important as we were going through significant leadership and organizational changes. I’ve learned the importance of being more intentional in my engagement with stakeholders, leadership, and colleagues at all levels to enhance my influence. Intentionality involves not only crafting the message I wish to convey but also proactively planning the frequency of my interactions. I used to think that “talking for the sake of talking” in a meeting was a waste of people’s time, and was also concerned about being judged on my comments. Now I understand the importance of “marking” my presence in a meeting in order to improve my influence. One other area we worked was understanding my role vs direct reports – that helped me to better understand my priorities and be more effective with my work – which automatically impacts my work/life balance. Coaching with Kelly has had tremendous impact as I’m learning to be more effective in my projects – closing decisions and executing work in a faster pace. I loved that Kelly made everything very easy, flexible and seamless. As I was going through so many changes at work, we were able to flex topics through the sessions, which really expanded my learning way more beyond my initial goals (but still achieving them). I also really liked how she coached without giving me a direct answer – she had me reflect and get to the insights by myself, which was really powerful.

Renata Azevedo, Senior Sales Director, P&G Global Grooming

I needed to elevate my influencing skills esp. via communications with Leadership (most of them are more Western style). Kelly helped me to know my needs and my uncovered wishes much better. Kelly is so professional and has equipped me with so many cool [tools]. Now it’s more for me to keep on practicing during daily work! Also, by interacting with Kelly, I’ve been able to know myself better and deeper! This has been a very effective self-discovery journey. Results: increased presentation skills in front of my Leadership. She was able to do this by integrating everything quickly into the “task/goal” for each session via listening, probing and always get back to the “task/goal” that we want to achieve.

Xiaoli Wang, Director, Greater P&G China Open Innovation

Kelly has enabled me to be a more confident and effective leader through my most difficult business challenges and my biggest personal growth opportunities. Without Kelly's prompting and 3rd way thinking, I don't think I could have reached my goals and objectives as quickly as I have thus far. She truly has been instrumental in my growth.

Senior Brand Director, P&G North America, Cincinnati, OH

I had the challenge of increasing my level of confidence to speak up when meeting with peers and top leadership. Kelly taught me the power of recognizing and overcoming inner blocks, helping me with awareness and action planning to face these types of meetings. Thanks to her coaching, I have made great progress against the legacy I want to build as a female leader, making an impact on the female leaders around me while influencing behaviors in my Leadership Team.

Senior Product Supply Director, P&G Latin America, Panama

I had recently moved to a new position that requires a different set of skills vs. what I had done for the previous 10 years. I had to improve my communication skills, especially to top management, and on the personal side I had to process and leave behind the frustration that built up during my last assignment due to a dysfunctional relationship with my leadership. Kelly demonstrated genuine care, my key driver to select her as a coach. She then helped me to explore resources and leverage them for some very helpful introspection. Kelly helped me to become aware of the “anabolic” [constructive] and “catabolic” [destructive] versions of myself, and this inspired me to restore my “anabolic” mode. I was able to achieve a much higher level of self-awareness and intentionality on how to shape my present and future, in spite of anything in the past that may have not gone as I would have wanted. Additionally, I gained helpful insights on how to better prepare for top management reviews, and how to better read the room and adjust as needed. Better communication and revived self-awareness have enabled me to perform at my peak and keep delivering breakthrough programs while contributing to the broader team and our mission to drive Superior Employee Engagement. My increased self-awareness and restored confidence allowed me to be in the “anabolic” mode also during my personal/family time.

Senior Director, P&G North America Product Supply

I wanted to finesse my executive style and leadership, and find ways to be a better leader for my team and my organization. My biggest gain from coaching with Kelly was understanding my worth. It was very helpful that she pushed me that extra step to believe in myself and my capabilities a little more, because the organization, my team and colleagues see me in a better light than I sometimes think. Second, I learned to re-frame situations, putting me in control of the conversation vs others. Kelly not only made me feel comfortable, but she asked questions to help lead me to the right answer rather than providing me the right answer. I really enjoyed that and the process!

P. C., Corporate Senior VP, NYC

Executive coaching with Kelly has been one of the best investments I’ve made in my 20+ years at P&G. Kelly does a great job of helping me to get to the root of my feelings, shift paradigms, understand alternate perspectives, while holding me accountable in a caring way. I have grown a lot over the past year and Kelly has played a big part. I look forward to staying in touch with Kelly on my professional career growth journey.

Vice President, P&G Product Supply North America

I was experiencing imposter syndrome and struggling to build my confidence after changing assignments, moving to a new country and starting my first regional role. There were two key enablers with Kelly that tangibly helped me: 1) conducting the ELI and 360 leadership assessment to identify strengths opportunities, and 2) providing day-to-day tools that I could implement when experiencing confidence issues. I learned that I do not see myself the way my colleagues do; I consistently underrated my own influence and capabilities - a significant eye opener. I now feel more confident in my abilities in my day-to-day work environment, enabling more efficient decision making, effective delegation and more inspiring leadership. Three valuable aspects of Kelly's coaching: (1) - Kelly instantly made me feel at ease, which despite being a private person, meant that I felt comfortable being open and at times, vulnerable. This enabled me to get the most out of the coaching. (2) - Kelly has the ability to listen intently and ask thoughtful questions, enabling a true depth of understanding. She was able to peel the layers back of any challenge I shared. (3) - I always came away from sessions with Kelly feeling inspired and more confident. Kelly, You are very good at what you do and I am grateful for your time and expertise. Thank you!

Sam H, Brand Director, P&G Asia/Middle East/Africa

Kelly's coaching was the perfect thing to get out of my head and focus on the goals and outcomes that would end up being a huge impact on how I approach work, meetings, relationships, and most importantly myself/my own thoughts.

Vice President, Information Technology, Procter & Gamble

I’ve now been assigned to my manager’s role as part of an organizational restructure; bigger responsibilities and many things to learn – I’m very happy. I must thank you, Kelly, for this, all what we worked together was helpful; I continue working in my communication upwards, but my manager’s and 1-up manager's feedback in this year-end review have been very positive. They can tell the progress, and that has helped me to get their confidence for the new role.

Senior Brand Director, P&G Panama

I did not know what to expect going into coaching sessions. Kelly is insightful, a great listener, and offers solutions as well as different viewpoints. Chatting with Kelly gives you clarity and direction!

S.B., Estate Planner, Cincinnati WELead Cohort 19

When I learned that Kelly was my coach through the WE Lead leadership development program, I took one look at her and try to glean “how” she would coach me. And although she had a nice smile, I couldn’t glean anything until we had our first one on one coaching session. She was like a ray of light, illumination and sunshine. She asked the right questions to cause me to uncover “my” answers and managed to challenge me without being forceful. I hope you are as fortunate as I was to have and keep her as a coach.

Nicole Ware, Cincinnati WELead Cohort 19

Ready to create ripples to make waves?

You know that you want what’s next – professionally… personally… within you… what you can give to the world. While you may not have known how to get started in the past, now you know that I’m here to help. My role is to partner with you to help you discover the ideas, plans and potential that are deep inside you – then articulate the goals and next steps to make them reality. To explore what could be next, click the button below to schedule your free Goal Achievement Discovery Call. I look forward to connecting – and potentially being an oar in your ripples-to-waves journey!

Questions? Click here to contact us.

Kelly Wittry, CPC, ELI-MP

Executive, Life & Leadership Coach
Consultant/Speaker/Facilitator

Kelly is a coach who meets you at the crossroads – with deep experience, intuitive insight, and a passion for helping you move forward with clarity and confidence.

She brings a rare combination of technical expertise, business strategy, and human-centered design to her coaching, grounded in a decades-long career spanning industry-leading, global Fortune 50 and 100 companies. With a background in Systems Analysis and Psychology, Kelly has led across technology, branding and design strategy, HR and sales. Her work blends left-brain logic with right-brain creativity, making her uniquely equipped to guide clients through both strategic pivots and deeply personal transformations.

Kelly is an ICF-certified (ACC) coach, trained by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. She holds certifications in Design Thinking (Stanford d.school), DEI in Leadership (Miami University), and is a trained Stephen Minister, bringing compassion and presence into every conversation. Her clients – ranging from executives at Fortune 50 companies to nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs – span industries, life stages, cultures and continents.

What unites them? They’re navigating change. And that’s where Kelly thrives.

Her coaching is rooted in purpose. Whether you’re facing a professional transition, exploring your next chapter, or simply feeling the pull of something more, Kelly helps you reconnect with your “greater why” and activate your unique gifts. She partners with you to create ripples of change that align with who you are, and the waves you’re meant to make.

Kelly offers individual and group coaching, corporate programs, speaking engagements, and workshops – all grounded in vision, values, and action.

She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her husband/best friend/adventure partner and their three rescue pups. Frequent travel to Cincinnati and Southeast Ohio keeps her close to work, friends and family. Her grown children have her heart as they make waves of their own in Chicago.