KATHY GRAVES FARLEY
BIOGRAPHY
30 Years Leading Young Adult Leaders
Kathy Graves Farley empowers young adults to understand that LEADERSHIP is more than a buzzword for power and success. Leadership is the KEY to unlocking their personal and professional development. Kathy is a seasoned leader in youth education, with over 30 years of experience in her professional career. Her company, Arrowhead Ranch Outdoor Science School in Southern California, was home base for young leaders to come and work, learn, train and lead others. Kathy is known for her dedication to developing young adults into great LEADERS, as she still is today. Kathy now travels to colleges, universities, and high schools inspiring students to embrace leadership and personal development through workshops, keynotes, day and weeklong inservice trainings.
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When she's not on stage you will find her out hiking with her four-legged side kick, Cheers. She enjoys the great outdoors where she might be paddle boarding on her local lake and snow skiing in the winter. She loves to return to her childhood home and grab her surf board to hit the waves and enjoy time with her family. Kathy has two adult sons who live nearby. They all gather with their families for a weekly competitive and rousing game night.
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In her book amazing book, "Young Adults KRUSHING IT"! Kathy has published her lessons in a motivational context that takes the “scary” out of leadership and empowers young people toward great accomplishments and self-relization, setting them on a confident path for life. With her knowledge through tens of thousands of hours spent developing young leaders is present on every page. She also shares her high energy, positive and humorous approach to experiential learning in speaking engagements at colleges and high schools across the USA. And her commitment also continues in personal coaching and workshops for young leaders 18 to 28 years in age.
Kathy encourages you to reach out to her for a warm conversation about the importance of putting the right things in place for first-time leaders. Her process in mentoring and leading is seen in the success that graduates of her training have proven time and again!
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The Kathy with “K” story.
It’s quite simple...
When I was quite young I was always asked if I was a "K" Kathy or with a "C". It drove me nuts, always clarifying it was with a "K".
When I came onboard at the outdoor science school, the staff had a tradition of nick names and there I was, blurting out that I was "Kathy with a K”. It became a thing and stuck! I hear it everywhere to this day. I still announce when asked that I’m Kathy with a “K,” and that is a very good reason to call my first book KRUSHING IT!... with a "K" :)