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Human-Centered Leadership for Healthier, Stronger Organizations

Ralph Kellogg is a senior HR executive, consultant, author, and TEDx speaker who helps leaders build healthier cultures, navigate complex people challenges, and lead with greater courage, clarity, and humanity.

TEDx Speaker | Author of Leading While Human | SPHR, SHRM-SCP

Three Ways to Work With Ralph

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Consulting

Strategic HR guidance for organizations navigating growth, change, compliance, culture, compensation, and complex employee matters.

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Speaking and Workshops

Honest, engaging conversations about leadership, workplace well-being, resilience, organizational culture, and the human experience behind professional success.

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Leading While Human

A candid and personal exploration of leadership, anxiety, identity, resilience, ambition, and the challenge of remaining human through it all.

Meet Ralph

HR executive, consultant, speaker and author

Ralph Kellogg has spent more than 20 years in human resources, training and executive leadership. He brings the perspective of a senior HR executive and the honesty of someone who has lived the pressures he talks about.

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Senior HR executive | Consultant | TEDx speaker | Author of Leading While Human | Adjunct university instructor | SPHR and SHRM-SCP | Mental Health First Aid and QPR instructor

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Speaking Topics

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Empathy, courage and accountability, and the responsibility leaders carry for the culture they create.

Human-Centered Leadership

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How to talk about anxiety, pressure and stigma at work, and how leaders can respond with compassion.

Mental Health and Workplace Well-Being

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The gap between outward success and inner experience, and what it takes to grow through it.

Resilience, Vulnerability, and Personal Transformation

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Practical HR leadership for engagement, retention and organizations that work for people.

Organizational Culture and HR Strategy

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Connection Points Consulting

Senior HR guidance without a full-time hire

Connection Points Consulting, founded by Ralph Kellogg, gives small and midsize organizations and nonprofits senior-level HR guidance without a full-time executive hire.

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​Fractional and Strategic HR Leadership | Compensation and Total Rewards | Policies, Handbooks and Compliance | Employee Relations and Workplace Investigations | Leadership Development and DiSC | Organizational Culture and Performance Management

Leading While Human

Notes I Wish Someone Had Given Me

Drawn from years of personal journals and lived experience, Leading While Human is an honest conversation about what it means to lead, grow, struggle, and remain human through it all. Its themes shape much of Ralph's speaking.

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Honest leadership beyond titles and perfection | Resilience through anxiety, ambition and pressure | Growth through authenticity and self-awareness

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What People Say

From clients and event organizers

"Ralph was fantastic to work with. He helped answer all of my HR questions, update our employee handbook and created a compensation analysis for our whole team. Ralph made the review of our HR functions a breeze."

Tegan Reed, Nebraska Diaper Bank

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"Ralph brought powerful insights on workplace well-being and mental health. His honesty, passion, and real-world HR experience made a strong impact. I highly recommend him as an engaging and knowledgeable speaker."

Todd Conkright

Let's Create a More Human Approach to Leadership

Whether you are seeking strategic HR guidance, an engaging speaker, or a meaningful leadership conversation, I would welcome the opportunity to learn more about your organization.

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