Michael Kelly

One of my ancestors was a founder of Jamestown, a great-grandfather was a Texas Ranger, another was an Oklahoma oil banker. My dad was a fighter pilot. I come from a long line of explorers—Jim Bowie for instance (no kidding).

In a recent project we created a sustainability strategy for mid-coast Maine; www.waterville-me.gov/catalyst.htm. We did this through a non-profit I helped found 15 years ago www.runningstart.org. I'm a consultant. For the Office of the Secretary of Energy, my firm facilitated the re-organization and opening of the first successful nuclear waste storage facility in the United States (WIPP). I have also had many assignments in private industry (Xerox, Maytag, Lockheed Martin) facilitating the creation or implementation of corporate strategy. I have a talent for getting hard headed people to play together productively. I attribute that to several decades spent studying collective intelligence.

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