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Karen L. Kelly, K2 Ultimate Incentives, Earns Certified Engagement Practitioner Designation
The first incentive company executive earns the Enterprise Engagement Alliance’s new Certified Engagement Practitioner designation signaling that she has a full understanding of a strategic, systematic, and measurable approach to stakeholder engagement across the enterprise.Click here to subscribe to the ESM weekly e-newsletter.
Karen L. Kelly, owner and managing partner of K2 Ultimate Incentives, has earned her Certified Engagement Practitioner designation through the Enterprise Engagement Alliance Impact Academy, a program designed to equip professionals with a formal, Total Quality Management-based framework for engaging stakeholders and delivering measurable results.
The certification, developed around ISO 10018 people engagement standards and stakeholder management principles, aims to provide a structured methodology for aligning people, purpose, and performance across organizations. It is overseen academically by Gary Rhoads, Academic Director of the program and Stephen M. Covey Professor Emeritus of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Brigham Young University.
The EEA certification is based on a 50-question, proctored multi-choice question test and a an interview that focuses on: basic principles of total quality management for people; the implementation, design, and impact measurement principles focused on value creation; how to better align the dozen or so tactics involved, and to break down organizational or team silos, and a fundamental understanding of impact metrics.
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Karen Kelly says she has more than two decades of experience across sales, customer support, marketing, program execution, and leadership roles, including managing teams and at various points designing and supporting incentive and recognition initiatives. Her multi-perspective understanding of employees, customers, managers, and organizations has shaped how she approaches engagement and performance, she adds. Her decision to pursue certification reflects a deliberate effort to elevate client conversations beyond traditional rewards, shifting the focus from what to offer toward what organizations seek to accomplish, and how those outcomes can be measured and improved over time.Her achievement highlights a broader evolution in the incentive, rewards, and recognition field, as solution providers increasingly seek the tools and credibility to demonstrate impact, says Bruce Bolger, EEA Founder. By grounding her approach in a formal, standards-based framework, Karen Kelly positions K2 Ultimate Incentives to help clients move from transactional programs to strategic engagement systems designed to drive tangible business results.
“We’re still here to support our clients rewards and recognition needs; our aim is to help them more tangibly connect them to core organizational or team performance priorities.”
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Karen Kelly
602-692-2662
karen@k2ultimateincentives.com
Enterprise Engagement Alliance Services
Celebrating our 17th year, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance helps organizations enhance performance through:1. Information and marketing opportunities on stakeholder management and total rewards:
- ESM Weekly on stakeholder management since 2009. Click here to subscribe; click here for media kit.
- RRN Weekly on total rewards since 1996. Click here to subscribe; click here for media kit.
- EEA YouTube channel on enterprise engagement, human capital, and total rewards since 2020
Management Academy to enhance future equity value for your organization.3. Books on implementation: Enterprise Engagement for CEOs and Enterprise Engagement: The Roadmap.
4. Advisory services and research: Strategic guidance, learning and certification on stakeholder management, measurement, metrics, and corporate sustainability reporting.
5. Permission-based targeted business development to identify and build relationships with the people most likely to buy.
Contact: Bruce Bolger at TheICEE.org; 914-591-7600, ext. 230.
