Kelley Capron
Guide and Teacher
Kelley Capron is a Family Nurse Practitioner who cares for individuals from the beginning of life to end of life. She has cared for individuals in primary care, in specialty clinics (Cardiology and Retail Health) and is currently working with geriatric population. She has a passion for helping people reach both their health and personal goals. She believes in a wholistic collaborative approach to health care. Building a relationship and partnering with patients better helps them reach their goals.
Kelley earned a Master’s in Nursing from Research College of Nursing. Kelley decided to go into nursing to help people when they need it the most. Helping take care of people wasn’t enough, so she soon began pursuing her Nurse Practitioner degree. She wanted to help people navigate and translate health so they could understand and own their bodies. In addition, Kelley earned a Masters in Gerontology, Kelley pursued this in order to better understand the wholistic needs of the geriatric population.
Kelley’s curiosity for helping people went beyond patients but to help fellow NPs. She joined MinuteClinic. There, she became one of the Regional Training Managers as they expanded from 35 to over 500 clinics nationally. Kelley was instrumental in the expansion. In her pursuit to continue to make an imprint, she became a Regional Operations Director with MinuteClinic. Since then, Kelley has lead patient care organizations in long-term care centers and currently returned to patient care.
Kelley maintains her center through focusing on building and maintaining strong relationships with family and friends. In the summer you will find her at the ballpark watching her talented nephew play baseball. She is a sports enthusiast particularly for the Kansas City Royals. According to Kelley, “Healthy rivalries are great!”. She has a strong, deep faith which lifts her up. And there is her love of her dogs, which return her love – all four of them.
As President and Founder of Pivot At Work, founded in 2002. Larry works with individuals and organizations to increase effectiveness. This is done in a variety of ways; individual and cohort coaching, outcome based experiential cohorts, and facilitated process work. Recently, he has dedicated his time to working with content creation with experts in various disciplines, coaching officers in the military, and advising organizations in learning architecture. Clients include Surest, Best Buy, Boston Scientific, Carlson Companies, CHS, Carlson School of Management, Williams Energy. In addition to Pivot At Work, Larry has worked inside organizations including UnitedHealth Group, CVS/MinuteClinic, Adaytum, Carlson School of Management. In 2012, his book “A.R.T.ful Leadership The Path to be Admired, Respected, and Trusted as a Leader” was published.
For two years, Larry went underground, producing a podcast to uncover the impact of individuals who experience trauma from being led by poor or abusive leaders in organizations. Through interviews, people came forward to describe how their experience impacted their professional lives, their financial lives, their home, and what recovery has looked like for them. Towards the end of this journey, Larry shifted his attention to focus on how leaders and organizations were responding to the Pandemic.
Larry’s approach to his work has been described by a colleague as “whole-person leadership”. “He understands that we are complex and multi-dimensional creatures. He often references that how we communicate is formed at age 3 – that means, how we respond to conflict, how we interact, how we engage in feedback, how we play in the sandbox has roots in our earliest experiences.”
When Larry works with people – whether individually or in groups, he often pushes them to explore family dynamics, self-awareness, self-confidence, and work. Each impact the other. Understanding each of the components is necessary to not only realize strengths, but to uncover barriers and challenges that exist.
In graduate school, Larry studied Marriage and Family Dynamics, Dyadic Communications, Management, Diffusion of Innovation, Group Dynamics, Organizational Communications, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Economics, Marketing, and Public Relations. All of this was intentional, and he had to fight academia to make it happen. He never stopped looking at tackling issues from a multi-discipline approach. Looking at Leadership, or Teams, or Organizational Culture from a variety of perspectives – and collaborating with a variety of disciplines to solve a problem.
Being constantly curious is an amazing and wonderful thing.
Larry lives in Minneapolis area with his wife Nancy. They have two children, Alex and Kathryn who also live in the area.