Radford is an executive coach to clients worldwide and a leadership development consultant. In these roles, Dr. Kelly designs customizes, and delivers leadership work globally. She enjoys working with customers from all industry sectors and the complex challenges they face such as empowering people and developing talent, leading collaboration and teamwork, driving performance, and decision-making.

Lily’s coaching style would be regarded as fusion coaching. She applies her skills as a clinical psychologist and blends them with a multi-disciplinary approach that takes one’s finished lifestyle into account and applies it to business coaching. Her business acumen and global experience position her uniquely to fuse various approaches to achieve evidence-based results.

Lily has handled executive training programs for leading business schools such as the University of North Carolina Executive Development, Duke Corporate Education, and HEC Paris.

For the last 5 years, Dr. Kelly has spent more than 25 weeks a year teaching in  Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She has also been in charge of the development and identification of executive coaches to deliver services in these regions.

Lily is also CEO of LEAP Leadership, Inc., a niche leadership company for high-profile individuals in media and sports. Earlier in her career, Dr. Radford served as executive vice president of global markets at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), where she was the worldwide delivery of executive education in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Dr. Kelly’s tasks in the US and abroad have covered program delivery, sales and marketing, and faculty management. She was also a chief psychologist for 450 worldwide feedback and coaching specialists. Additionally, she was in charge of the startup of the CCL location in Asia, the turnaround in Europe, and new strategies for business. Previously, Lily was the Director of the Center’s flagship open-enrolment program, the Leadership Development Program (LDP).

Before joining the Center in 1990, Lily retained a private practice and consulted with companies. She has also been an assistant attending psychologist with Harvard Medical School, a tenured associate professor of psychology at Howard University, and an employee of the Central Intelligence Community.

Outside of Lily’s academic work, she loves traveling with her husband of 36 years, spending time with her 3 adult children, the performing arts, assisting young adults who have limited academic guidance, and coaching high-profile emerging leaders.