About Kelly

Kelly Charles-Collins, CEO of HR Legally Speaking, LLC has the unique ability of making complicated, difficult, and sensitive topics approachable. Kelly is a powerhouse attorney. speaker and expert on disrupting unconscious bias, bystander intervention and workplace investigations. She uses her 20+ years of legal expertise, intuitive perspective, and engaging personality to empower leaders to stay on the right side of the next #hashtag movement.

A sought-after authority around the country, Kelly expertly guides organizations and individuals to realize how unconscious bias and indifference can stifle opportunity, prevent people from reaching their full potential, and cause harmful professional, personal, and legal issues.

Kelly provides organizations and leaders practical tools to improve culture, promote diversity and inclusion, boost productivity and protect their people and profit.

She authored her book ACE Your Workplace Investigations and developed an eLearning course based on her book, delivered an award-winning TEDx Talk on The Bystander Effect: Why Some People Act and Others Don’t, and has been featured on television and radio and quoted in several publications.