Kelly Jordan

Kelly Jordan is a counseling psychologist with over 15 years of experience supporting leaders and organizations to optimize fit, satisfaction, and performance at work. Kelly offers responsive and integrated assessment services to identify strengths and areas for development, match individuals to identified organizational needs, and facilitate successful onboarding to new roles. Given her doctoral-level training in psychology and assessment background, Kelly prides herself on communicating clear information about test results while considering contextual, cultural, and individual factors that make these results applicable and actionable.

Kelly’s experience in coaching, counseling, and assessment spans a range of settings and clientele over more than a decade. She presently assesses ministry candidates for several denominations, and coaches ministry and non-profit leaders at LeaderWise. She has served as an HR consultant in the corporate setting, supporting leadership development, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness initiatives. She counseled undergraduate and graduate students in career exploration and job search strategies while at Hamline University. She has provided career and personal counseling in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and college counseling centers.

Kelly earned her Master of Arts in Educational Psychology and her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on vocational identity development and interest measurement in leisure, volunteerism, and career areas. While in the Psychology Department, Kelly coordinated the Career Counseling and Assessment Clinic, overseeing career assessment and coaching services for early- and mid-career professionals across a variety of fields. She continues to teach career counseling to graduate students at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota