She Didn’t Like

What Was Being Said.

So she changed
the conversation

PRAISE FROM INDUSTRY ICONS

Kelli Ellis HGTV Personality and Celebrity Interior Designer
“If you want to build a thriving thought leader platform with a high profit back end, Kelly is the only consultant I would ever trust my business to.”

Mark Victor Hanson

Author of One Minute Millionaire & Chicken Soup for the Soul calls Kelly “an extraordinary Strategist.”

Seth Goodin

The Mega Marketing Guru named Kelly’s company “One of the Most Innovative Companies in America.” They also bestowed upon her the coveted Purple Cow Innovator Award for Excellence in Business Innovation.

Official

BIO

Kelly O’Neil is one of the most sought-after international brand positioning and platform development strategists for technology startups, professional services firms, medical and dental practices, entrepreneurial small businesses and other service professionals across multiple industries.

She helps her clients reposition themselves as lynchpins in the market, launch innovative brands and market disrupting platforms, and strategically scale their businesses from 6 to 7 to 8 figures in the process. After a highly successful corporate career that started when she was just 19 years old, Kelly opened her own consulting firm in 2001 and continued her work as a brand marketing and positioning strategist and was sought out by high growth tech clients to help them develop their go to market positioning strategies to acquire funding, increase their business valuations, get acquired or go public.

Her methodology is so unique that marketing genius Seth Godin awarded her the coveted “Purple Cow Award” for being one of the most innovative companies in America.

Today, Kelly is the Founder and CEO of the multi-million-dollar brand which includes Innovate Profit Consulting, Innovate Brand Agency, The UpLevel Community and various other business ventures. In 2022 she launched the Epic movement to serve the unique needs of market disrupting women entrepreneurs who are changing the conversations in their industries.

Kelly is the host of “The Epic Podcast” and is regularly sought out for her specialized expertise and unique perspectives about entrepreneurship. She is a contributing author for Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines and has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, NBC, and ABC among other prestigious media outlets. Kelly is a featured speaker around the world and has frequently shared the stage with industry legends including Tim Ferris, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracey, Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Tony Hsieh, and Lisa Nichols among other brilliant influencers.

Kelly lives with her Tibetan Terriers London, Addison, and Remington in Las Vegas, Nevada and when she is not shaking up the industry can be found boating at the lake or practicing her forehand on the tennis courts.

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KELLY’S TOP

Awards

Association of National Advertisers
Outstanding Excellence

PR Compass Award
for PR Excellence

Purple Cow Innovator Award
by Seth Godin

ADDY Award
for Outstanding Brand Identity

Business Networkers International Notable Networker Award

National Leadership Award
from the Republican National Committee

Christopher Howard Training Hall of Fame

Top 50 Coolest Marketers
(5 Years in a Row!)

Best of Los Gatos Award
in the Internet Marketing Services

Top 20 Women
You Should Be Following On Twitter

Forbes Business Council
2022 Official Contributor

Entrepreneur Leadership Network
2022 Official Contributor

Top 20 Small Business Coaches
by Clear Simple Marketing Online

WE Magazine
Top 100 Women in Ecommerce

KELLY’S TOP

Awards

Association of National Advertisers
Outstanding Excellence

PR Compass Award
for PR Excellence

Purple Cow Innovator Award
by Seth Godin

ADDY Award
for Outstanding Brand Identity

Business Networkers International Notable Networker Award

National Leadership Award
from the Republican National Committee

Christopher Howard Training Hall of Fame

Top 50 Coolest Marketers
(5 Years in a Row!)

Best of Los Gatos Award
in the Internet Marketing Services

Top 20 Women
You Should Be Following On Twitter

Forbes Business Council
2022 Official Contributor

Entrepreneur Leadership Network
2022 Official Contributor

Top 20 Small Business Coaches
by Clear Simple Marketing Online

WE Magazine
Top 100 Women in Ecommerce

THE EPIC EVOLUTION

Carter Waxman

BEIGE ARROW
1991

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.

After Kelly graduated college and left Carter 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.

1996
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Walt & Company

INTUIT

RED ARROW
1998

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.

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.

1999
GRAY ARROW

eVOICE, INC

AFTER AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL CORPORATE CAREER AS A BRAND STRATEGIST AND PUBLICIST, KELLY O’NEIL RETIRED FORM CORPORATE AMERICA IN HER LATE TWENTIES AND BEGAN HER ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY.

O’NEIL COMMUNICATIONS

BEIGE ARROW
2001

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.

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.

2002
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Morpheus wins lawsuiT!

KELLY BEGINS TEACHING ENTREPRENEURS HOW TO MARKET LIKE THE BIG GUYS

PERSONAL GROWTH

RED ARROW

2003

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.

Kelly began speaking and published her first book in 2005.

2005
GRAY ARROW

KELLY WRITES A BOOK

MARKETING TO MILLIONAIRES

BEIGE ARROW

2009

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.

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.

2013
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INNOVATE BRAND AGENCY

RUDE PROFIT AWAKENING

RED ARROW
2014

Kelly has her “Rude Profit Awakening”, realizes the traditional business models are obsolete, downsizes her business and creates space to solve the challenges so many entrepreneurs are facing.

Kelly changes the conversation in the business coaching industry with the launch of The Profit-ology® business building process and embarks on a speaking tour to help entrepreneurs around the world re-think how they go about building their empires.

2015
GRAY ARROW

The Profit-ology® movement

testing the message

BEIGE ARROW

2017

Kelly embarks on a speaking tour to test the message and The Profit-ology™ Business Academy is launched to a select group of Profit-preneurs who are serious about creating a high profit, high freedom business.

Kelly’s business explodes in a time where entrepreneurs are desperately seeking innovative solutions to position their brands and alter their service offerings in unprecedented times.

2020
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The covid uplevel

The Platform Expansion

RED ARROW
2021

Kelly becomes a contributing author to Forbes and Entrepreneur magazine and set the stage to launch her next podcast (Epic) and uplevel her own personal brand.

After a personal epiphany, Kelly launches the EPIC movement and shifts the focus of her business to exclusively work with the next generation of women thought leaders to build thriving, profitable businesses and EPIC market disrupting brands and platforms that the world so desperately needs.

2022
GRAY ARROW

The EPIC ERA

AND SHE IS JUST GETTING…

started.

THE EPIC EVOLUTION

BEIGE ARROW
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
teal arrow

Walt & Company

After Kelly graduated college and left Carter 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.

RED ARROW
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
GRAY ARROW

eVOICE, 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 FORM CORPORATE AMERICA IN HER LATE TWENTIES AND BEGAN HER ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY.

BEIGE ARROW
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

2002
teal arrow

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

RED ARROW
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
GRAY ARROW

KELLY WRTIES A BOOK

Kelly began speaking and published her first book in 2005.

BEIGE ARROW
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
teal arrow

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.

RED ARROW
2014

RUDE PROFIT AWAKENING

Kelly has her “Rude Profit Awakening”, realizes the traditional business models are obsolete, downsizes her business and creates space to solve the challenges so many entrepreneurs are facing.

2015
GRAY ARROW

The Profit-ology® movemenT

Kelly changes the conversation in the business coaching industry with the launch of The Profit-ology® business building process and embarks on a speaking tour to help entrepreneurs around the world re-think how they go about building their empires.

BEIGE ARROW
2017

TESTING THE MESSAGE

Kelly embarks on a speaking tour to test the message and The Profit-ology™ Business Academy is launched to a select group of Profit-preneurs who are serious about creating a high profit, high freedom business.

2020
teal arrow

THE COVID UPLEVEL

Kelly’s business explodes in a time where entrepreneurs are desperately seeking innovative solutions to position their brands and alter their service offerings in unprecedented times.

RED ARROW
2021

THE PLATFORM EXPANSION

Kelly becomes a contributing author to Forbes and Entrepreneur magazine and set the stage to launch her next podcast (Epic) and uplevel her own personal brand.

2022
GRAY ARROW

The EPIC ERA

After a personal epiphany, Kelly launches the EPIC movement and shifts the focus of her business to exclusively work with the next generation of women thought leaders to build thriving, profitable businesses and EPIC market disrupting brands and platforms that the world so desperately needs.

AND SHE IS JUST GETTING…

started.

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