She didn’t like what
was being said.
SO, SHE
Changed
The Conversation.
She didn’t like what
was being said.
SO, SHE
Changed
The Conversation.
PRAISE FROM
INDUSTRY
ICONS
PRAISE FROM
INDUSTRY
ICONS
Kelly O‘Neil
Architect of Intelligent Growth | Futurist | Advisor to Visionary Entrepreneurs
Kelly O’Neil is a trailblazing thought leader, celebrated futurist, and prolific creator of intellectual property known for transforming market disruption into strategic advantage. For over three decades, she has redefined what it means to grow, scale, and lead — helping visionary entrepreneurs architect businesses that deliver freedom, profitability, and legacy.
Her story, however, isn’t one of a linear rise. It’s a story of intelligent reinvention.
At just 19, Kelly launched her career in the heart of Silicon Valley, working with top PR and brand firms and helping generate more than $750 million in revenue for global companies. By her 30s, she had built a multi-business empire of her own — a thriving portfolio that looked successful from the outside but was quietly cracking beneath the surface.
When market volatility collided with misalignment and structural inefficiency, everything she had built came crashing down.
It was a devastating collapse — and the catalyst for the most powerful transformation of her career.
In the ashes of that experience, Kelly saw the truth: the traditional entrepreneurial model was broken. The hustle, the complexity, the fragmentation — it was bankrupting brilliant leaders financially, emotionally, and creatively. So she dismantled everything that wasn’t aligned, extracted the wisdom from her experience, and rebuilt from the ground up.
That rebuilding became Phoenix Growth Partners, Inc. — a firm born not from theory, but from lived experience. Not another consultancy or coaching company, but a category-of-one advisory firm that helps entrepreneurs and leaders design Intelligent Growth Architecture — the clarity, structure, and strategy that make success sustainable.
Through proprietary frameworks including Fusion Paradigm™, FusionCore™, ProfitCore™, PartnerCore™, and Marketing to Millionaires™, Kelly and her team help clients achieve intelligent scalability, affluent market leadership, and exit-ready freedom — without the burnout, chaos, or compromise of the old model.
Her mission is clear: To lead the new era of entrepreneurship — where alignment, innovation, and measurable results replace hustle, complexity, and exhaustion.
A recognized authority in business strategy and affluent market positioning, Kelly’s work has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, ABC, and over 1,000 media interviews. She has shared stages with icons such as Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Jack Canfield, and is the author of the upcoming EPIC AF Trilogy — Insolvent, EPIC AF, and The Fusion Paradigm™ — guides for transforming adversity into intelligent, scalable success.
Kelly also hosts the EPIC AF Podcast, where she leads candid, high-level conversations with industry disruptors and legacy builders redefining success in the modern business landscape.
Off stage, Kelly is as grounded as she is visionary. You might find her wake surfing, perfecting her tennis forehand, or chasing her Tibetan Terriers — London, Addison, and their mischievous little brother, Remmington. She’s equally at home in jeans and flip-flops at the farmers market or on a global stage — always with the same mix of humor, humanity, and no-nonsense brilliance.
The old model nearly broke her.
The new model — Intelligent Growth Architecture — is changing everything: for her, her clients, and the future of entrepreneurship.
Kelly O‘Neil
Architect of Intelligent Growth | Futurist | Advisor to Visionary Entrepreneurs
Kelly O’Neil is a trailblazing thought leader, celebrated futurist, and prolific creator of intellectual property known for transforming market disruption into strategic advantage. For over three decades, she has redefined what it means to grow, scale, and lead — helping visionary entrepreneurs architect businesses that deliver freedom, profitability, and legacy.
Her story, however, isn’t one of a linear rise. It’s a story of intelligent reinvention.
At just 19, Kelly launched her career in the heart of Silicon Valley, working with top PR and brand firms and helping generate more than $750 million in revenue for global companies. By her 30s, she had built a multi-business empire of her own — a thriving portfolio that looked successful from the outside but was quietly cracking beneath the surface.
When market volatility collided with misalignment and structural inefficiency, everything she had built came crashing down.
It was a devastating collapse — and the catalyst for the most powerful transformation of her career.
In the ashes of that experience, Kelly saw the truth: the traditional entrepreneurial model was broken. The hustle, the complexity, the fragmentation — it was bankrupting brilliant leaders financially, emotionally, and creatively. So she dismantled everything that wasn’t aligned, extracted the wisdom from her experience, and rebuilt from the ground up.
That rebuilding became Phoenix Growth Partners, Inc. — a firm born not from theory, but from lived experience. Not another consultancy or coaching company, but a category-of-one advisory firm that helps entrepreneurs and leaders design Intelligent Growth Architecture — the clarity, structure, and strategy that make success sustainable.
Through proprietary frameworks including Fusion Paradigm™, FusionCore™, ProfitCore™, PartnerCore™, and Marketing to Millionaires™, Kelly and her team help clients achieve intelligent scalability, affluent market leadership, and exit-ready freedom — without the burnout, chaos, or compromise of the old model.
Her mission is clear: To lead the new era of entrepreneurship — where alignment, innovation, and measurable results replace hustle, complexity, and exhaustion.
A recognized authority in business strategy and affluent market positioning, Kelly’s work has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, ABC, and over 1,000 media interviews. She has shared stages with icons such as Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Jack Canfield, and is the author of the upcoming EPIC AF Trilogy — Insolvent, EPIC AF, and The Fusion Paradigm™ — guides for transforming adversity into intelligent, scalable success.
Kelly also hosts the EPIC AF Podcast, where she leads candid, high-level conversations with industry disruptors and legacy builders redefining success in the modern business landscape.
Off stage, Kelly is as grounded as she is visionary. You might find her wake surfing, perfecting her tennis forehand, or chasing her Tibetan Terriers — London, Addison, and their mischievous little brother, Remmington. She’s equally at home in jeans and flip-flops at the farmers market or on a global stage — always with the same mix of humor, humanity, and no-nonsense brilliance.
The old model nearly broke her.
The new model — Intelligent Growth Architecture — is changing everything: for her, her clients, and the future of entrepreneurship.
THE
Mission
Kelly‘s story isn't about fitting in; it's about altering
the course of history by empowering entrepreneurs.
From the get-go, Kelly has been a visionary, a futurist who saw what others couldn't, and questioned the status quo when others settled. When the Apple "Think Different" campaign launched, it wasn‘t just an ad for her; it was like someone speaking her language for the first time. This campaign felt like a culmination of everything she had felt growing up, and it changed the path of her career and life. She resonated with it on such a deep level that it revealed to her why she is on this planet, and for the next two decades, Kelly aligned her craft, skillset and businesses with this purpose.
Through Phoenix Growth Partners, Inc., Kelly is disrupting the status quo, redefining the new paradigm of entrepreneurship and how business can be done. She takes a stand for the mavericks, the trailblazers, the ones who've been overlooked because their vision was too much for the masses, and helps them bring their ideas to market. In a world that often resists change, Kelly believes the rapid pace of change we‘re in needs visionary entrepreneurs who make an impact that will leave a legacy and make the world a better place.
All of her past experiences have prepared her for her next chapter: her legacy work. She‘s no longer working with entrepreneurs who’re just wanting to make more money - instead she exclusively works with entrepreneurs who want to create a lasting impact for future generations, the ones who rewrite the rules to change the trajectory of humanity. Kelly is not just building businesses; she's building legacies with her clientele, and she's just getting started…
THE EPIC
Evolution
THE EPIC
Evolution
1991
Carter Waxman
Kelly began her career in an internship at Carter Waxman Advertising and Public Relations, a prestigious agency in the Silicon Valley. After just 3 months, the company hired her and gave her the opportunity to co-manage one of the company’s accounts. She was 19 years old.
1996
Walt & Company
After Kelly graduated college and left CarterSub-Headline Waxman at 24, she was recruited by Walt & Company – another Silicon Valley Public Relations Agency where she worked with emerging technology companies and Fortune 500 companies (including Epson America, Hitachi Data Systems, Oki Semiconductor and Kingston Technologies). It’s here where she further developed her widespread expertise in advanced branding and marketing strategy.
1998
Intuit
World leading software company Intuit came knocking, looking for young, hot talent and made Kelly an offer she couldn’t refuse. At just 26, her work with Inuit (where she was responsible for launching Quicken 98, 99 and 2000) was acknowledged by the Association of National Advertisers. She received the Distinguished Award for Professional Development Excellence in Business Building & Managing Brand Equity.
1999
e Voice, Inc
When the dot com boom hit, start-ups were actively seeking innovators to get their brands acquired or poise them for acquisition. Since Kelly had developed a reputation for her keen ability to strategically position companies, align their brands, and generate stellar results. At just 27 years old, Kelly was recruited for a Director position by eVoice, Inc. The company was seeking aggressive talent (most of whom were Ivy League Graduates) that could help them strategically position the company for acquisition. In just 7 months, she repositioned and re-launched the company that was then acquired by AOL Time Warner.
AFTER AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL CORPORATE CAREER AS A BRAND STRATEGIST AND
PUBLICIST, KELLY O’NEIL RETIRED FROM CORPORATE AMERICA IN HER LATE TWENTIES
AND BEGAN HER ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY.
2001
O’Neil Communications
In 2001, Kelly launched O’Neil Communications, a boutique consulting company that served consumer technology companies and helped them with brand marketing strategy, positioning, and public relations. Kelly’s first client was the infamous Morpheus digital peer-to-peer company where she instantly became the driving force behind the brand marketing and publicity campaign in its battle to legalize digital music. Kelly was a critical component in bringing awareness to the validity of peer-to-peer technology and even lobbied on Capitol Hill where she effectively killed the Howard Berman Bill and created a movement of support for the advancement of this technology platform.
2002
Morpheus Wins Lawsuit
After nearly three years, Morpheus won its lawsuit achieving freedom for digital distribution of content, much in part because of the position and PR campaigns that created a movement under Kelly’s leadership. (Think giving way to platforms like iTunes and Facebook.) At 29, she was awarded a PR Compass Award for Excellence by the Public Relations Society of America for outstanding positioning and campaign work and became a media darling in the press for her work on the account.
Kelly begins TEACHING ENTREPRENEURS HOW TO MARKET LIKE THE BIG GUYS.
2003
Personal Growth
Always committed to her own person growth, Kelly attended the Coaches Training Institute in 2003. She launched one of the first business coaching companies for entrepreneurs where the focus was on using Fortune 1000 strategies on small businesses to accelerate their results.
2005
Kelly Writes a Book
Kelly began speaking and published her first book in 2005.
2009
Marketing to Millionaires
In 2009, Kelly launched Marketing to Millionaires, her game changing program that instantly positioned her as the industry’s go-to expert for marketing to the affluent.
2013
Innovate Brand Agency
In 2013, Kelly started The Innovate Brand agency to serve the specific needs of the next generation of thought leaders with strategic market positioning, brand strategy, brand platform development and innovative marketing strategies to rise above the noise.
2015
The Profit-ology Movement
Kelly changed the conversation in the business coaching industry with the launch of The Profit-ology ® business building process and embarked on a speaking tour to help entrepreneurs around the world rethink how they go about building their empires.
2020
The Covid UpLevel
Kelly’s business exploded in a time where entrepreneurs are desperately seeking innovative solutions to position their brands and alter their service offerings in unprecedented times.
2022
The F*ck This Epiphany
After years of watching the entrepreneurial framework break down, losing two of her own companies, Kelly retreated from the limelight to re-evaluate her life, her business and her purpose and experienced a massive revelation. She invested the next year developing intellectual property and collaborating with some of the most brilliant minds in business to rewrite the rules of how we launch, run and scale entrepreneurial businesses. She’s over it.
2023
The Ground-Up Overhaul
In 2023, Kelly went off the grid, stepping back from marketing and sales, to focus on a massive project behind the scenes. After refusing to accept the inefficiency of the antiquated business models and recurring problems that visionaries are imprisoned by, she did a complete overhaul of entrepreneurial systems from the ground up. By launching 9 companies that encapsulate more than 25 brands, she put her revolutionary "Fusion Principle(™)" to the test, proving it's not just theory but a proven map for success. She spent the year crafting, testing, and perfecting this new approach, all set to burn the old paradigms to the ground. What's next isn't just a shift; it's a disruptive innovation set to redefine entrepreneurship.
2025
Welcome to The Fusion.
Stay Tuned.
P.S. She is just getting started.
Ready for someone who understands what drives you, knows exactly how to create an EPIC brand that adds millions to your
bottom line and makes the crazy go away? You've just met your match.
