Kelly Kannwischer
Executive coach, author, and founder. Helping leaders build organizations capable of carrying the mission they exist to fulfill.
The leaders I work with are clear on where they want to go. What they're navigating is the structural and relational gap between their organization as it is and what it needs to become.
I work with executives, nonprofit boards, and mission-driven teams through executive coaching, governance consulting, Insights Discovery facilitation, and speaking. My books, Leader on Board and The Bethany Life, form the written foundation: one on governance and organizational clarity, one on the community architecture that makes sustainable belonging possible.
Many Things is my weekly newsletter on Substack. It publishes every Tuesday. The name reflects a conviction at the center of my work: that good leadership draws on many things — theology, organizational behavior, psychology, lived community — and that learning to integrate them is itself a form of development. Each issue takes one or two of those threads seriously.
I'm the co-founder of Wonderfully Made, built alongside Kitty Correll, a community for adults with intellectual disabilities that embodies everything the books describe.
My Story
There's a moment in almost every coaching engagement when a leader stops managing the complexity and starts seeing it clearly. Clarity like that changes what people do next. Getting there is harder than it looks.
That's the work I'm drawn to. As an executive coach, nonprofit strategist, author, and founder, I help high-capacity leaders and teams convert hidden potential into deployed passion. My clients include Fortune 100 companies like Amazon Web Services and Target, alongside values-driven organizations like Convoy of Hope and Custom Energy.
As an ICF-certified executive coach, Insights Discovery Licensed Practitioner, and Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), I bring structured frameworks to what almost always turns out to be a relational challenge. The frameworks matter. The relationships shape what the frameworks can actually do.
I'm also the cofounder of Wonderfully Made — a community for adults with intellectual disabilities, housed inside Peachtree Church in Atlanta. Our Wonder Makers run a professional kitchen, produce real products, and fill a space with the kind of joy that has stopped more than a few visitors in their tracks. What happens there is the community work I write about as much as any boardroom dynamic.
Leader on Board is my book on governance for mission-driven organizations. The Bethany Life is about covenant community and the life that forms when we choose to build it together.
Every Tuesday I write Many Things on Substack — where leadership, complexity, and the work of building something that lasts are the regular subjects. Subscribe and tell me what you think.Â
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities to partner with motivated people and organizations.
Let's connect.
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