Stephanie Halliday Kelly

Stephanie Halliday Kelly, Managing Partner
Stephanie lends over 20 years of corporate Human Resources and Change Management leadership to her projects. Known for her outspoken, innovative and intelligent style, Stephanie’s expertise in leadership development, corporate talent strategy, change management and compensation makes her a trusted c-suite advisor.
Experience/Background
As Managing Partner and founder of Apt Talent Partners, Stephanie has worked with clients to re-define organization structure, key roles and pay practices, develop new economy leaders, enable fundamental business change through outsourcing, new business processes and globalization and to prepare for initial public offering.
Her career has focused on developing relevant leaders and viable teams that produce business results on a global platform. As VP, Human Resources at Cognizant Technology Solutions, she designed and implemented Cognizant’s talent strategy as well as the company’s “Hi5” leadership development program, helping to drive Cognizant’s phenomenal 50+ percent year over year growth; from 11,000 to over 40,000 associates worldwide.
At Accenture, Stephanie grew through successive roles, including Associate Partner leading People Programs, Global Compensation and Technology Human Resources. She enabled initiatives including the globalization of the Financial Services Technology practice, implementation of the company’s service offering capability model, definition of a workforce model enabling the company’s foray into offshore solution services and creation of a variable pay offering to support the firm’s transition from a partnership to a public company.
At The Bank of New York, Stephanie held leadership roles in the Technology Services, Cash Management and Operations Divisions through 6 mergers and acquisitions, including the hostile takeover of the Irving Trust Company.
Education/Professional Achievements
A graduate of Skidmore College with career experiences spanning 3 continents, 6 mergers and over 10 acquisitions, Stephanie has consistently focused at the forefront of marketplace change; from consolidation to globalization, outsourcing to off-shoring.