1. Kip Harrell
Biographical Sketch
3318 1st Avenue NE, Suite F
Cedar Rapids, Iow a 52402
6215 Utica Ridge Road, #106
Davenport, Iow a 52807
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Kip Harrell is a Career Management Consultant with Right Management and is an
experienced, senior level, results-oriented career coaching, counseling and
leadership development professional with a deep focus on talent and skills
assessment, university relations, interview coaching, and career decision making.
Consulting Experience
Kip joined Right Management in the fall of 2014 as a project employee and has
worked with the Chicago, Deerfield and Oak Brook offices in Illinois. Although he
lives in Davenport, Iowa, he is aligned with our Cedar Rapids, Iowa office and works
with clients throughout the Midwest.
Kip has more than 20 years of private sector experience in HR, Talent Assessment &
Acquisition and Operations Management at Fortune 100 companies and professional
services firms including Accenture and AT&T. He spent more than a decade in the
higher education industry at the MBA, Executive MBA and graduate degree levels.
Business/Organizational Leadership Experience
During his time in the private sector, Kip led HQ and business unit functions for HR,
Talent Management and Practice Operations Management while based in Chicago,
Washington DC, and Denver in the U.S., and in Geneva, Switzerland and Moscow,
Russia.
While living in Europe, Kip worked with senior executives learning to hone their HR,
talent assessment and employee retention skills in more than 30 countries. He has
also worked with more than 100 colleges and universities worldwide.
Kip also lived in Phoenix where he served as the VP - Career and Professional
Development for the global locations of Thunderbird - the world’s #1 international
business school. He led the career, professional and employer development, alumni
career management functions and many of the student services operations across
the university. He designed the leadership development program for high potential
students and served on the President’s Leadership Council. Kip played a leadership
role in many university functions including University Admissions and served as a
member of the Faculty Advisory and Curriculum Development Committees.

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Kip is a past President of the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance (MBA
CSEA) – a professional association of more than 800 members comprised of MBA
career development leaders and corporate hiring professionals, and where he served
on the Board of Directors for more than 10 years. During his time as President, he
successfully drove the initiative to grow the association to include graduate school
and corporate hiring professionals in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
While at the MBA CSEA, he was responsible for management of the MBA
Employment Standards, which govern business school employment data collection,
compliance and reporting worldwide. Kip served as spokesperson to global media
organizations, including The Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek , The WSJ,
Forbes, and US News, who use The MBA Employment Standards for their regular
business school assessments and published rankings.
Education and Training
Kip has an undergraduate degree in computer science and management and has a
post-graduate certification in Global Management. Kip has experience with DISC
and management work-styles inventories and learning styles assessment tools
including Myers-Briggs® (MBTI), Gallup Strengthsfinder®, Global Work Styles
Inventory™, M. J. Kirtin© Inventory (KAI), Insights® Learning and Development Profile
(IDP) and Archer Development’s Power Skills Competency Model©.
Kip has visited more than 80 countries. His French is passable and much better than
his Russian or Spanish. He considers himself a ‘Citizen of the World’ and can
operate effectively in multiple cultures and across all levels within organizations. He
attributes his success to “surrounding myself with people smarter than me and who
frequently disagree”.
Kip has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN and local news affiliates and has been
quoted in global business, university and employment publications for his knowledge
of university graduate hiring and employment market trends and practices.
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