Career
He is the general manager of IDEO, a design and innovation consultancy founded by his brother, David Kelley. He joined the firm in 1987, and helped it grow from 20 people to its current size of 550-plus.
Kelley attended Oberlin College on a National Merit Scholarship. He earned an MBA in 1983 at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Delbert J. Duncan citation as the year's top marketing scholar.
After graduation, Kelley was a management consultant for Towers Perrin, working on organizational and operational issues in North America, Asia and Australia.
As a public speaker, he has given talks at a wide variety of events, conferences, and organizations, speaking to 10,000 to 20,000 people a year. In 2001, he was a guest on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He is represented by the Leigh Bureau.
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