Board Leadership
Enterprise Experience. Human Capital Expertise.
Purpose-Driven Governance.
Kelley Cornish brings nearly four decades of leadership experience spanning financial services, healthcare, organizational transformation, workforce strategy, philanthropy, and community impact. Her career has placed her inside complex organizations navigating questions of strategy, talent, culture, growth, stakeholder expectations, and transformation. Today, she brings that experience to governance with a perspective grounded in both enterprise performance and human potential.
Governance Perspective
The role of a board extends beyond oversight. Exceptional boards help organizations anticipate what is changing, ask better questions, and build institutions capable of creating sustainable value. Kelley brings a perspective shaped by leadership across corporate, nonprofit, and civic environments.
Areas of Contribution
Human Capital & Workforce Strategy
Executive experience leading and advising organizations on talent, organizational effectiveness, workforce strategy, culture and leadership.
Enterprise Strategy & Transformation
Experience operating within large, complex institutions and helping translate strategy into execution, accountability and organizational change.
Financial Services
Senior executive experience within major financial institutions, providing perspective on highly regulated environments, complex stakeholder ecosystems and enterprise leadership.
Organizational Leadership
Nearly four decades of experience leading people, functions, partnerships and organizations through growth and change.
Stakeholder & Community Strategy
Experience connecting corporate priorities with workforce, community, philanthropic and public-private interests.
Partnerships & Ecosystem Building
A track record of bringing organizations and leaders across sectors together around shared economic and social outcomes.
Current Board Leadership
Wiley University — Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees
In 2025, Kelley became the first woman in Wiley University’s more than 150-year history to serve as Vice Chairman of its Board of Trustees.
Dallas Regional Chamber — Board of Directors
Kelley contributes to a leading regional business organization supporting economic growth and opportunity across North Texas.
Executive Experience
T.D. Jakes Foundation — President & Chief Executive Officer
Wells Fargo & Company — Former Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer
TD Bank Group — Former Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion
Board Philosophy
Kelley believes strong governance requires more than expertise. It requires curiosity, courage, independent judgment, the willingness to ask difficult questions, and the discipline to think beyond the next quarter toward what an institution is becoming. She is particularly interested in organizations navigating questions involving growth, workforce transformation, human capital, financial inclusion, community impact, and the changing relationship between business and society.
Kelley welcomes confidential conversations regarding select corporate and advisory board opportunities where her executive experience and governance perspective can add meaningful value.