Keli Frazier-Cox

Keli Frazier-Cox, the founder of Promote Leaders, LLC, is a respected builder and scaler of high performing teams. As an experienced leader, she understands what it means to balance the demands of ambitious growth targets, cultural differences, and personal growth in fast-paced and entrepreneurial environments.

Keli has dedicated her career to helping emerging executives navigate the complex and potentially conflicting approaches to effective leadership. As a coach and speaker, Keli leverages her extensive experience, proprietary framework - Intentionally Balanced Leadership, and various assessment tools to structure customized and actionable plans. The hallmark of Keli’s style is that she helps companies achieve their financial goals while building staff engagement, empowerment, and retention at pace. This approach has the potential to mitigate costly management mistakes, reduce attrition, and build the next generation of senior-level leaders.

An international executive with a career spanning 25 years, Keli is a graduate of the Wharton School and her varied experience includes being a Chief Commercial Officer, Global Head of Learning & Development, and a US General Manager. A self-made leader, Keli began as an appointment scheduler in sales, eventually leading a division where she quadrupled revenue, and later headed departments with employees spread across 15 countries and six continents as well as completing an expat assignment living in London. Most recently, as the Chief Commercial Officer for Mind Gym, she ushered in a return to double digit growth, resulting in the highest revenue recorded in company history and record-breaking productivity levels, joining the organization during unprecedented attrition and a 40% revenue decline at the height of Covid.

Her repeated successes have uncovered a universal truth: An investment in people directly impacts profits, inclusion, and broader society.