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Joe Kelly Training
Consultant and Speaker Joe Kelly is a father, best-selling author,
blogger, speaker and primary media source on fathering, appearing on the Today
Show, Talk of the Nation, Fox News, as well as in Time, People, New York Times,
USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Parenting and dozens of other outlets. Kelly’s
speaks and teaches across North America on fathering; media and marketing’s
impact on families; successful strategies for raising girls and boys; and how
professionals can mobilize fathers as allies in their work. He blogs for
Dads & Daughters®, TheDadMan.com and Deepak Chopra’s Intent.com —and
is a contributor to Mothering.com and a featured author on Great Dads.com. He
has written for Parents, Mothering and many other publications. In 1993,
Kelly and his wife Nancy Gruver founded the groundbreaking New Moon Girls magazine,
an international periodical edited by girls 8 to 12 years old. New Moon Girls
is the only child-edited publication to win the prestigious Parent’s Choice
Foundation Gold Award (seven times so far). Gruver and Kelly won Parenting magazine’s
1995 Parenting Achievement Award. Kelly won Father of the Year Awards from
iParenting.com and the Women’s Sports Foundation. He belongs to the Center
for Family Policy and Practice, the Men’s Task Force of the National Domestic
Violence Hotline, Save Title IX Task Force, and serves on the board of the national
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Minnesota Fathers & Families
Network, and has been a consultant for the Men’s Resource Center for Change,
WNBA, American Psychological Association Task Force on Sexualization of Girls,
Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day, and other nonprofits. He has testified
before the Congressional Children’s Caucus, the President’s blue ribbon
Title IX commission, and the FDA. He also wrote two Annie E. Casey Foundation
fathering program guides. Kelly’s leadership on family and cultural
issues puts him in contact with parents and professionals worldwide. He has keynoted
for the National Eating Disorders Association (US), National Eating Disorder Information
Centre (Canada), the National Association of Independent Schools, National Association
of Science and Technology Centers, AAUW, and dozens of communities, universities
and conferences. Kelly and Gruver live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Their adult
daughters live in California. A New Jersey native, Kelly is the author of the
play This Horse of a Body of Mine, co-editor of four nonfiction books for girls,
and was an award-winning journalist for Minnesota Public Radio. He has a BS in
philosophy and journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. |
