Narrative Bio
Kay Cannon’s Narrative Bio
Kay Cannon learned the hard way that leaders have a sacred obligation to look beyond the bottom line. Kay’s wake up call arrived without warning and changed her life forever.
A rising corporate star at the age of 24, Kay Cannon successfully led the financial turnaround of her company’s flagship contract and simultaneously generated record profits. In return for Kay’s leadership, her employees wrote a letter to the company president saying Kay was a cold, heartless b#@$% and demanded she be fired. Shocked and humiliated, Kay began a painful search to discover the secrets of outstanding leadership.
Fast forward fifteen years.
On Kay’s last day as a corporate executive, an employee abruptly stopped her. “I can’t let you leave,” she said. “When you walk out the door the heart and soul of this company walks out the door and it will never be the same.”
From cold, heartless b#@$% to the heart and soul of the company. What was different? Just one thing – who Kay Cannon had learned to be as a leader.
As the Leadership Whisperer, Kay Cannon helps other leaders find wisdom, strength and tools to unleash the human spirit and create a better world. Now, more than ever before in the history of humanity, the world needs wise leaders. Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, the world is only as strong as its weakest leaders.
Kay’s clients include leaders from Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial ventures, governmental agencies and non-profit international associations. Her work includes leadership coaching and team development for NASA. She also serves as a leadership expert for the International Spa Association and its worldwide membership. Kay frequently speaks and writes on the transformative power of inspirational leadership.
Kay Cannon’s personal dedication to advancing world leadership is reflected in her role as the 2007 President of the International Coach Federation, an organization of 11,000 members from 80 countries. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential, and has a B.S. from the University of Texas and an M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky.