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THE EPIC EVOLUTION

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

KELLY WRTIES A BOOK

Kelly began speaking and published her first book in 2005.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.