Kelye is the Founder of Wholistic Women Living, LLC, (formerly Wholistic Woman Retreats) as well as a company culture builder, HR and seminar leader on positive employee and management training. Through her hospitality and wellbeing company since 2005, KRB Business Solutions, LLC, Kelye specializes in communications and leadership and provides result-driven solutions, such as positive psychology, to integrate work/life wellness for service-oriented clients. 

Kelye is the pioneer partner of a start-up award winning concept/company in airports called Minute Suites, LLC and has three joint ventures in Dallas Fort Worth, TX and Nashville, TN airports. In Texas, Kelye accepted the ACDBE (Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) of the year award for KRB Business Solutions, LLC in 2019 and won the Soaring for Success Trailblazer award in 2024. 

Kelye impacts and motivates all levels of associates from those starting out in business to those in the board room. She leverages her success as a company founder and owner, a president and CEO, a corporate executive, coach, advisor, and volunteer. Kelye blends her corporate experience and entrepreneurial zest to deliver results that increase productivity, positivity, and profitability. 

Prior to launching her training business in 2005, Kelye traveled extensively across North America for Wyndham International to conduct orientation and training, oversee special corporate initiatives and open small and large hotels. Her experience in the hospitality and training industry began 35 years ago while working for hotels as human resources and training director in the Washington, D.C. Metro area. Kelye is all about the culture of people, with a mission to enhance others’ lives to feel richer and complete. Her motto: “Educate, Motivate, and Cultivate” sums up her approach to drive others to succeed from their core and be their very best – leading from the inside out!

She is a lifetime member with CHART (Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers). She has earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communication and public relations and holds many professional certifications, including the most prestigious in the hospitality industry CHA (Certified Hotel Administrator) and CHT (Certified Hospitality Trainer). Kelye graduated from the Wholebeing Institute with a certification in Wholebeing Positive Psychology. As a woman and small business enterprise, KRB is certified in her home state of Maryland, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, VA/DC, and Arizona.

Kelye is married to a wonderfully supportive man, Steve, who loves to cook. Kelye enjoys connecting with others, food, wine and traveling. One of her favorite travel spots is Red Rock Sedona, Arizona where she says an amazing journey awaits and is beyond excited to take Wholistic Women “over the pond” to Ireland in 2026.