About Kelly A. Olexa
Kelly’s extensive professional experience is a mixed blend of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. She has worked for tech startups, several small to medium-sized businesses, as well as Fortune 500 organizations. Her skilled tenacity has produced strategic partnerships with companies such as: ConAgra, Orbitz, Travelocity, Marriott Hotels, Doubletree Hotels, Choice Hotels, Best Western, Microsoft, N.A.R., 7-ELEVEN, Valero Energy, SBC, Exxon/Mobil, Safety-Kleen, Sally Beauty, Halliburton, H&R Block, Sprint/Nextel, Brinker International, Carlson Restaurants, A.C.S, Lennox International, and Dean Foods among others. Kelly currently works independently with business organizations developing sales and marketing strategies utilizing Social Media.
Kelly holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees from The Ohio State University. Most recently, Kelly has enhanced her sales and marketing experience by immersing herself in all things Social Media. Her personal blog, primarily focused on her passion for fitness and health, has garnered a captive audience and rather serendipitously, has produced myriad opportunities to provide vlogging (video blogging/interviewing) services for other brands. Kelly’s natural on-camera presence and charisma landed her a spot as one of 100 Ford Fiesta Agents for the “Ford Fiesta Movement” beginning April 2009. In addition, in less than 9 months, Kelly’s engagement on Twitter has resulted in over 17,000 followers, regular placement among the “Twitter Elite” Top 100 (via Hubspot, TwitterGrader) nationally and in the Top 10 for Chicago.
Her involvement in social media spaces, growing sphere of influence, extensive professional skillset and latest mastery of the vlogging medium have generated significant interest from large organizations, startups and individuals. She is now regularly requested as a speaker, panel expert, guest vlogger, social media strategist, and trainer/facilitator and event vlogger for conferences, “Tweetups” and parties. Kelly was also featured as one of the “Top Young Female Entrepreneurs in Technology by Business Week”, 2009.
In the lingering moments when Kelly finds “free time”, she is expanding the content for her fitness blog to a more comprehensive website, offering daily updates/vlogs on all things Health, Wellness, Fitness and Peace of Mind. She is finalizing a book about Social Media best practices for business. This book will address how big brands and individuals can effectively utilize social media platforms to generate buzz and more importantly, produce measurable ROI. Contributors to the book include: Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee, Wine Library TV), David Armano (@armano), Olivier Blanchard (@TheBrandBuilder), Mack Collier (@MackCollier, The Viral Garden), Aronado Placencia (@Aronado, Lucky Startups), Scott Monty (@ScottMonty) (Ford), Kris Colvin (@KrisColvin), Liz Strauss (@LizStrauss) (SOBCon), Doubletree Hotels, Chris Pendleton from Microsoft Bing Maps, Ramon DeLeon (@Ramon_DeLeon) Dominoes Pizza, Brian Simpson, The Roger Smith Hotel, Michael Chiarello (Food Network and Napa Style), Katrina Campins (Campins Company Real Estate, The Apprentice TV Show) and others. Passionate about social media- but more passionate about creating authentic RELATIONSHIPS, Kelly is a Social Butterfly- both online and off. For inquiries, please email Kelly directly at KellyOlexa at Gmail dot com.