Kerry Secrest
Kerry pairs her experience working on four continents with a passionate, community-minded approach, helping her clients enhance effectiveness, achieve goals, and deepen personal fulfillment.
Her expertise includes executive coaching, team development, organizational development, and women in leadership. Whether working with individuals or organizations, her goal is to enable her clients to live and lead from core values in order to make a more meaningful impact at work, at home, and in communities.
Kerry founded the Women’s Leadership Circles of Vermont, an intensive leadership program, and in 2013 she was invited to speak at the International Women’s Leadership Conference on the success of the program. She served as Commissioner for the Vermont Commission on Women from 2014-2020.
Kerry believes that life is an adventure and that growth happens when we operate in our “stretch zone.” She has organized unguided rafting expeditions north of the Arctic Circle and backpacked through Siberia. In her youth, Kerry was a competitive gymnast who trained at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado.
Former faculty of Marlboro College Graduate School, Kerry has a master’s degree in International & Intercultural Relations with a focus on human resource development from the SIT Graduate Institute, and an undergraduate degree from Villanova University. She is an associate with the nationally-recognized Strozzi Institute, for somatic coaching. Kerry is certified as an integral coach through New Ventures West, and as a mediator through the Center for Dispute Settlement.