Ann Houston Kelley

Ann Houston Kelley enables international executives in global organizations to have crucial conversations about the ‘things that matter’. She raises the topics ‘above and below the table’ that lead to choices and change. Her clients see her as a trusted, strategic partner in business conversations. She uses a combination of assessment, challenge and support to enable them to succeed personally and professionally in measurable ways.

As a trained economist and family systems psychotherapist, Ann focuses on the ‘bottom line’ as well as ‘getting people to the bottom line’. Her diverse work experience (marketing analyst, IT manager, HR specialist, psychotherapist for international executives) gives her the understanding to listen deeply to many different types of leaders. Since 1995, she has been coaching international executives and their teams in-house and on executive education offerings from KDVI, INSEAD and the Center for Creative Leadership. Her clients come from biopharma, finance, FMCG, manufacturing, information systems, NGO’s, petro-chemicals and professional services. She recently relocated to the US after 24 years in the Netherlands. She brings a deep understanding of ‘thinking globally/working locally’ to her work.

Ann holds a BS in Economics and Public Policy Studies from Duke University, a MA in Counseling Psychology from Lewis and Clark College and further education as a family systems psychotherapist and a Tavistock (group relations) consultant. She is a Board Certified Coach (CCE – USA) and an associate member of the American Psychological Association. She is the author of “Coaching Executives Across Cultures” in Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (Kets de Vries et al, Insead, 2007).

Ann holds American and Dutch passports. She and her husband live in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon (US). Their ‘third culture children’ are grown and living in Boston (MA) and Brooklyn (NY).