Founder and Practice Leader, Wellbeing Wisdom
Creator, Anchor Relationships®
Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University

Kellie Cummings is an award-winning communication and organizational consultant specializing in transforming workplace relationships to unlock potential. She is the creator of Anchor Relationships®, a research-backed framework that helps leaders understand and activate the generative mechanisms within relationships that create leadership capacity. This framework centers on three distinctive characteristics—mutual growth investment, self-efficacy enhancement, and connection to core virtues—which drive authentic leadership, resilience, and ethical decision-making in high-stakes situations. Most importantly, these tools provide actionable insights for cultivating relational sources of strength, resilience, and courage that cannot emerge in isolation.

Over her 25-year career spanning Madison Avenue and global corporate leadership, Kellie has pioneered approaches that help leaders excel by establishing trust with stakeholders at all levels, earning seven awards for strategic and leadership communications. She shares her rich experience with graduate students as a Lecturer in Johns Hopkins University's Master of Arts in Communication program, teaching corporate social responsibility, branding and advertising, and organizational communication.

Kellie's consulting portfolio includes The U.S. White House, TD Ameritrade, Comcast Corporation, and other organizations. Her writings on trust, leadership, and well-being have been published in The Washington Post, HuffPost, Reuters Sustainable Business, the Association for Talent Development, and numerous other outlets. She is accredited with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and has presented at their World Conference twice.

She earned her Master's in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and served as a Fellow with the Center for Positive Leadership at the University of Louisville's College of Business in 2022, where she developed the Anchor Relationships tool.

Beyond her professional work, Kellie has served her community through the Special Olympics and board positions with CASA for Children and the University of Pennsylvania's MAPP Alumni Association. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity University Washington and recipient of the T-pin for community service, she combines the science of wellbeing with strategic communication to help organizations build enduring trust-based relationships that benefit an organization, its stakeholders, and the planet.