Kelly Lewis is a Client Experience Manager and is graciously supporting ZRG The Registry and the membership team while Membership Operations Manager, Mikaela Daigle, is on maternity leave. In addition to her interim role at ZRG The Registry, Kelly is a key partner to client engagement and executive search teams. In this role, she leads end-to-end project execution and administration, coordinating across clients, candidates, Managing Directors, and internal teams to ensure seamless search delivery. She plays a central role in driving operational excellence, maintaining timeline adherence, and delivering a consistently high-touch client and candidate experience in a fast-paced executive search environment.

Kelly brings seven years of executive search experience, supporting and helping deliver senior-level searches across education, non-profit, sports, media, and entertainment. Her work has spanned full-cycle search operations, research coordination, candidate and client engagement, and the management of complex, multi-stakeholder processes supporting senior leadership placements.

She comes to ZRG after serving as a Research and Recruiting Associate for Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates, a top executive search firm specializing in higher education, where she supported leadership searches for nonprofit, civic-centered entities, and colleges and universities nationwide. Kelly previously worked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions and began her career as a Teach For America educator in Houston.

Throughout her career, Kelly has been actively engaged in advancing access and representation within executive search and the broader talent ecosystem. She has partnered with organizations and initiatives focused on expanding opportunities for historically underrepresented communities and strengthening pathways into corporate and nonprofit leadership roles.

Kelly holds a Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor.