Lead Under Pressure - Why Endurance Isn't Resilience

Kim Kelly is the Founder of AVENNI, where she empowers leaders with the tools to lead themselves through change. After spending her career building and leading nine-figure portfolios across 50+ countries while advising Fortune 500 organizations, she discovered that endurance is built alone; resilience is built together. Kim speaks and writes on leading through pressure and teaching leaders to navigate it with resilient actions. She's a mom of two in New Jersey, working toward a personal goal of visiting all 50 states by 50, and constantly draws on her theater training.  


For years, "push through it" has passed for leadership. I spent my career building and leading big teams inside big organizations and had to learn the hard way that endurance and resilience are not the same thing - one burns you out, the other is what actually gets you through change and keeps you performing at a high level. This talk breaks down that distinction and gives the audience practical, actionable tools they can use immediately - the same framework (Lead Under Pressure) I use with executives and team