Lisa M. Kelly
Director, CAO Administration, Office of the Chief Academic Officer, at MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Role
- Director, Cao Administration at UT MD Anderson
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lisa M. Kelly
Executive leader in complex, matrixed academic medical center milieus. Accountability for growth and improvement, creating efficiencies through collaboration, and promoting operational standards of excellence. Refined listening, writing, and relationship building skills. Proven ability to partner across business lines on strategic issues of importance.Guided by a well-defined moral compass, passionate about empowering others to set and achieve goals. Understands importance of multi-disciplinary partnerships. Places high value in aligning staffs’ strengths with organizations’ needs while motivating and inspiring. Reputation for remaining poised under pressure. Engages staff, creates buy-in among various stakeholders, inspires action without direct authority, and develops lasting partnerships. If someone asked me to pick three specific leadership skills from my leadership toolkit, I would pick listening, writing, and relationship building. Listening is an often overlooked and undervalued leadership skill, but I would counter that it is one of the most important. A leader with solid, consistent listening skills is more likely to be a more effective writer and communicator, and relationship building will fall into place far more easily. Specialties: Leadership development, executive coaching, transformational leadership, budget development/management, proposal development/management, grant development/management, clinical research, research administration, contract negotiation and management, operational management, staff management, financial management, and healthcare administration
Experience
Director, Cao Administration
Jun 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US
I serve as the administrator and financial leader of the Chief Academic Officer enterprise.
Education
University of the Incarnate Word
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
1994 — 1998
Rice University
Leadership Coaching
2019 — 2019
Trinity University
Master of Science, Health Care Administration
2008 — 2010
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