Kelley Rowe

Founder of Stratlever

Co-Founder of Africa ExO

Co-Creator of Women4Impact

ExO Coach, Trainer and Consultant at Open ExO

Active member of the Circular Economy Community of Practice led by ICLEI Africa

MTP: To accelerate the transition to a sustainable and meaningful future

Kelley is a strategist, advisor, coach, trainer, and consultant working at the intersection of technology, innovation, and the circular economy. Kelley’s massive transformative purpose is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and meaningful future. Kelley is an advocate for the adoption of the Circular Economy and believes in the exponential impact that can be achieved through co-creation. I love dealing with complex problem spaces and helping organizations and teams to co-create for the future they believe is possible.

Kelley has over 13 years of advisory, coach/mentoring, consulting, and research experience in strategy development and innovation, industry and lean supply chain transformation, organization restructuring, business process design, and re-engineering, industrial clusters, and associated public-private partnerships. Kelley has worked work clients across many industries in both the private and public sectors, including chemical, manufacturing, automobile, clothing, footwear, leather, textiles, retail, packaging, FMCG, public healthcare, public services, and development finance.

Kelley is the Founder of Stratlever, Co-Founder of Africa ExO, Co-Creator of Women4Impact, and an ExO Coach, Trainer, and Consultant at Open ExO. Kelley is also an active member of the Circular Economy Community of Practise led by ICLEI Africa, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s ‘From Linear to Circular and Circular Futures Lab Global Alumnus Group, and the Open ExO community.

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An EXO Interview with Kelley

Topics

Exponential Organizations, Innovation and Transformation

Exponential Technologies and the Circular Economy

Future of Food

Future of Manufacturing

Circular Cities

Articles

Food Action Cities
Urban circular food systems and opportunities for cities in Africa »

ICLEI Africa and the African Circular Economy Network
Circular Cities in Africa: A reflection »

Gordon Institute of Business Science: University of Pretoria
White Paper: An assessment of Government, Business and Trade Union perspectives of socio-economic inequality in South Africa: what lens are we looking through? »

Testimonials

“Wherever Kelley appears, sparks of inspiration follow. She is both a critical and systemic thinker, with the ability to come up with original ideas, craft them to meet the market needs and make them happen. A strategist and maker at the same time with a deep and sincere dedication to creating a sustainable world around us. She is a powerful woman, I love to work with her.”

– Dea Frankó Csuba, ExO Ambassador, innovation coach, serial entrepreneur

“Kelley was absolutely vital in helping us get out of our comfort zone and thinking more exponentially. As a consultant, Kelley used the perfect balance between guiding us and giving us enough space to apply new principles to our business.”

– Pascale Henke, CEO & CO-Founder of Brownie Points

Founder of Stratlever

Co-Founder of Africa ExO

Co-Creator of Women4Impact

ExO Coach, Trainer and Consultant at Open ExO

Active member of the Circular Economy Community of Practice led by ICLEI Africa

MTP: To accelerate the transition to a sustainable and meaningful future

Inquire About Kelley

Videos of Kelley

Open ExO live with Kelley Rowe

Exponential Technologies and Circular Economy in Africa

Books

Contributor to ‘Exponential Organizations: The Essential Guide to Building ExO’s’

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