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You Loud & Clear

Burnout Doesn’t Always Explode. Sometimes It Just…Fades.

Not every burnout story ends in a breakdown. Sometimes, it’s quieter than that. Sometimes burnout shows up not as panic—but as numbness. Not as chaos—but as a creeping fog. I call it The Gray

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Kindness in leadership with KAren Walrond on Hidden Human. Image includes a photo of Karen and the host Kelly Meerbott
You Loud & Clear

Kindness in Leadership: Karen Walrond on Integrity, Calm, and Joyful Growth

In this episode of Hidden Human, Kelly Meerbott welcomes Karen Walrond, author and leadership coach, to explore the profound impact of kindness in leadership. Karen shares her personal journey of embracing authenticity

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Navigating conflicts as an executive can be challenging. Here's a guide. Image show frustrated leader with team complaining.
You Loud & Clear

How Leaders Navigate Conflicts & Establish Common Ground

Navigating conflicts and establishing common ground are essential skills for an executive. Here are strategies and tips on how to effectively manage these challenges. Understand the Root Causes Before addressing a conflict,

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Legacy leadership. Podcast interview.
You Loud & Clear

Leading with Legacy: How Karla Trotman Transformed Electrosoft

In this insightful episode of Hidden Human, Kelly Meerbott sits down with Karla Trotman, CEO of Electrosoft, to explore her remarkable legacy journey in the electronics manufacturing industry. Karla delves into her

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decision making
You Loud & Clear

Overcoming Decision Making Doubts For CEOs & Leaders

As a CEO, making decisions is a critical part of your role. However, doubts can often cloud your judgment, leading to indecision or second-guessing. Overcoming these doubts is crucial for maintaining effective

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Unleashing the Mermaid: Empowering Women with Sharron L. Cooks, CEO of Making Our Lives Easier, joins Kelly Meerbott on the podcast. Image shows Kelly sitting by microphone and Sharron in a circle frame pic.
You Loud & Clear

Unleashing the Mermaid: Empowering Women in a Sea of Challenges

Join Kelly Meerbott as she sits down with Sharron Lynn Cooks, a community affairs and public relations consultant at Making Our Lives Easier LLC, to discuss the unique challenges women face, including the importance

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Guts Over Ego: The Leader’s Playbook for Bold Decision-Making. Image shows skeptical woman looking up at text.
You Loud & Clear

Guts Over Ego: The Leadership Playbook for Bold Decision-Making

Leaders, stop struggling with decision-making — discover how to leverage research, trust your instincts, manage risks, and empower your team to foster a culture of confidence and collaboration.

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Disrupting Journalism: Audrea Cline-Thomas on Authentic Storytelling
You Loud & Clear

Disrupting Journalism: Aundrea Cline-Thomas on Authentic Storytelling

  You do not want to miss this episode of Hidden Human as Kelly Meerbott interviews Aundrea Cline-Thomas, founder of Mountain Court Media. Hear about her bold career pivot from traditional journalism

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Hidden Human Podcast Season 9 Episode 1 with Alexy Posner of AP Brand Group
You Loud & Clear

Crafting Impact: Alexy Posner on Strategic Storytelling in Media

Welcome to Season 9 of the new and improved podcast Hidden Human! Learn the story behind the leader through powerful and authentic conversations guided by leadership expert Kelly Meerbott, PCC of You

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Mansplaining isn’t just a harmless interruption; it’s a manifestation of deep-rooted biases and power dynamics that have been ingrained in our society for centuries. When a man mansplains, he’s reinforcing a narrative that undermines women’s authority and expertise.
You Loud & Clear

How Female Leaders Can Crush Mansplaining & Command Respect

Despite the push for diversity and inclusion, female leaders still face unique challenges that men often don’t. One of the most frustrating of these challenges is “mansplaining.” Mansplaining occurs when a man

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Kelly A. Meerbott

Executive Leadership Coach, Corporate Trainer, & Chief People Officer (CPO)

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Kelly Meerbott provides executive leadership coaching and training to company executives in the technology, bio-tech, transportation, real estate, city government, marketing, public relations, and manufacturing fields, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 corporations such Virgin America, Walt Disney World, Sony Records, Anytime Fitness, and Universal Studios, as well as niche and boutique businesses like The Ritz-Carlton of Palm Beach, the British Tourism Authority, and the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center. Kelly’s work in public relations, print communications, and radio media as a communications executive enabled her to work with internationally-recognizable, name-brand companies, including with McDonalds, BB&T, BMW, Dollar Tree, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Interscope, Columbia, Capitol, and RCA (for a six-figure marketing contract portfolio).

Kelly’s 20+ year background of coaching using modern Cognitive Psychology & Psycholinguistics methods and ADDIE instructional-design training has enabled her to provide almost 10,000 hours of customized, targeted coaching for client-driven self-awareness, self-reliance, accountability, communications, persuasion skills, conflict resolution, diversity and inclusion skills, and awareness of multi-generational workplace factors. Her focus is to design and facilitate international marketing strategies via customized Executive Coaching Plans to enhance executive leadership capabilities (and to benefit their companies). Kelly’s career experience includes international consulting focusing on review and in-depth analysis to derive the best-practice instructional and coaching methods for individual and group training, including development of handbooks, visual aids, and tutorials and tracking progress via one-on-one discussions, observation, and other evaluation methods.

Her experience encompasses over 20 years of Instructional Design, including executive coaching and leadership development, and over 10 years of marketing, public relations, and sales in the media and hospitality sectors. As a life-long learner, she hones her coaching skills with continuing education, training, and certifications, including topics of leadership and emotional intelligence, as well as mentoring from the corporate coaching guru, Byron Katie.

Kelly has developed strong communications skills as well, providing small-to-large presentations to organizations and non-profits on topics of leadership, business networking, women in business, change-leadership, goal setting, communications, and diversity. She has been recognized as the Best Executive Coach (2018), Philly Current Magazine Pick, Philadelphia, PA; Best Executive Coach (2018), ProFinder’s Exclusive Best of 2017 List, Sunnyvale, CA; and nominated for the Woman of the Year (2014) by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She provides leadership guidance via blogs and vlogs as a SME advisor to Evisors.com and guest contributor to A Band of Women.com, ForwardMetrics.com. She is a regular SME contributor to the Philadelphia Business Journal (PA) and the Ask the Expert section of Inside Business (Hampton Roads, VA), in addition to hosting the podcast, Hidden Human: The Stories Behind the Business Leader, Philadelphia, PA.

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  • Principal / Leadership Coach / Corporate Trainer, You: Loud & Clear, Inc.
  • Founder, Matter Expert Consultant, Meerbott Marketing Creative & Public Relations
  • Chief Communications Officer, Training & Development, Executive Lifestyle Magazine
  • Senior Marketing Consultant, Sales Trainer, Clear Channel Radio
  • Community Marketing Manager, Fairfield Resorts (a Cendant Corp.)
  • Marketing & PR, Sr. Executive, ImMEDIAcy Public Relations
  • Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Ballet Florida

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Pharmaceutical Company

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Number of Employees: 59,000

Length of Engagement: 2 years

BUSINESS SITUATION: Big Pharma – Impact in the Boardroom — A tough-minded forthright client in a big commercial role was promoted on to the operating Board. Much to his surprise his impact and ability to get his voice heard at the Board table was significantly less than he was used to. He began to lose confidence on the one hand and overuse his forthright style on the other, exacerbating the situation. He felt very isolated and did not know who to ask for help, in what felt like quite an unwelcoming environment. This was the first time in his career he had felt this way.

SOLUTION: We collaborated and co-created a plan of success that focuses on executive coaching to help him read the underlying Boardroom dynamics of his colleagues quickly, understand his own reactions under pressure and his default communication styles.

BENEFITS: He learned to partner in subtle and sophisticated ways with his Board peers. He ended up being the ‘go to’ person for many of them.  A year and a half later he was promoted again.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Fortune 500 Retail Company

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Number of Employees: 341,000

Length of Engagement: 2 years

BUSINESS SITUATION: Politics and confusion within the senior leadership team that trickled down to the frontline staff across the country. The result: $25 million in lost revenue and many of their “A” players were going to work for the competition.

SOLUTION: The senior leadership team was given a 360-degree assessment to complete on each member.  Leveraging the results of the 360 assessment, the senior leadership team and I co-created a 12-month coaching and leadership development plan with the outcome of each session clearly communicated to each department by the department head.

BENEFITS: The company was able to retain five of its “A” players, which amounted to saving $500,000 in revenue. Communication was streamlined and became clearly implemented across the company. Revenue in Q1 increased by 25%, in Q2 by 33% and in Q3 by 17%.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]