a pioneer in applying Collaborative intelligence

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mike Kelly's father, while hurriedly packing said, “My squadron’s been activated. My jet can carry a Mark 28 nuclear weapon, take care of your mother and sisters.” Mike was 12; coming of age in America. He suspects that the shock of that responsibility was the catalyst for his life’s work.

After completing a Ph.D. in Experimental and Clinical Psychology, he worked as a clinician for a decade in Manhattan. However, his interest in systems, decision-making, collective intelligence, and social transformation drew him into consulting where he facilitated substantive social and commercial contributions by combining social dynamics with information technology to develop visionary innovations in high-speed, collective decision-making.

Aware that any advantage in observation, orientation, decision-making or action creates a tempo in execution that promotes strategic control, he experimented with methods and software to enable real-time strategic transformation, the integration of strategic awareness with creative implementation and tactical precision.

His clients have included senior management of Fortune 50-1000 corporations, tech start-ups, the Offices of the Secretaries of Energy and Defense, and non-profit and civic organizations. He is a founder and patent-holder in Clean Fiber, Inc., a green start-up that won the Red Herring Top 100 Tech Companies Award in 2019 and the Inc 5000 (2024) fastest-growing manufacturing start-up. He is also a founder of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, funded by the Heinz Endowments, to research and mitigate the health impacts of fracking. In 2018, he submitted a patent application for Ontology and Method for Creating a Trustworthy, Super-rational, Theory-of-Mind-capable Artificial General Intelligence.

Client History 

ABB Environmental Services, Inc. 

Access International, Inc.

Advanced Sciences, Inc. 

Aerco International, Inc. 

AIDS Medical Foundation, evolved into amfAR

Agility Forum 

Allied Signal Corporation 

American Lung Association of Maine

AMERICORPS 

Ampex Corporation 

Avondale Shipyard 

Bath Iron Works Corporation 

Binax Corporation 

CAD Framework Initiative; consortium including Intel, Hitachi, Phillips, IBM, National Semiconductor, and Hewlett Packard 

Campbell County, Kentucky

Canaan Computer, Inc.

Carnegie Mellon University 

CEDPA 

Center for Creative Leadership 

Ceramic Process Systems 

Citibank Consulting Group 

Clean Fiber, Inc.

Computervision Corporation: MariSTEP ARPA data translation project 

Creative Design and Marketing 

Data General Corporation 

Executive Jet Management

Gorham Advanced Materials 

Hexagon AB

   Hexagon PPM

   Hexagon China Group

   Hexagon CADWorx® & Analysis Solutions group 

High Schools That Work (Ohio) 

Holland & Knight 

Hughes Aircraft Corporation: Naval and Maritime Systems Virtual Shipyard Consortium 

INCON Division of Franklin Electric 

Information Systems Marketing 

Intergraph Corporation 

Kansas Health Foundation 

Lafarge Corporation 

Leveraged Software Systems 

Lockheed Martin 

Maine Medical Center 

Maine, State of:

   Office of the Governor 

   Department of Education

   Career & Technical Education: Maine School-to-Work 

   Maine Adult Education 

   Millinocket, East Millinocket, and Medville

Maytag Appliances 

MIS Week 

National Center for Aerospace Leadership 

National Center for Health Statistics 

National Shipbuilding Research Program 

Non-procedural Systems, Inc. 

Pro/USER, Inc. 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Executive MBA Program-Developing Dynamic Leaders seminar

Running Start Institute:

   Climate Destabilization Seminars

   Waterville, Maine Sustain Mid-Maine

   Limestone, Maine post-BRAC 

   Northern Maine Development Commission

RPM Wood Finishes Group 

School districts: 

   Maine School of Science and Mathematics (initiation and early development)

   Mount Healthy, Ohio 

   Fairfield, Maine

   Northern Penobscot Tech Region III Lincoln, Maine

   Howland, Maine

   Five Towns Consolidated School District Camden, Maine

   Glenview, Illinois

Siemens Bendix 

Sterling Drug 

Tennessee Department of Transportation 

Tufts University Department of Engineering 

United Defense Corporation 

United States Department of Defense:

   Office of the Secretary of Defense: Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Program 

   Office of the Secretary of Defense: Logistics Community Management 

   Defense Logistics Agency: Joint Logistics Commanders, Joint Technical Coordinating Group on          Flexible Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 

   Defense Commissary Agency: Information Systems Directorate 

   Defense Information Systems Agency: Knowledge-Centered Electronic Commerce Planning 

   U. S. Air Force Materiel Command: Pacer-Lean Warner Robins Air Logistics Center 

   U.S. Air Force Material Command: HQ AFMC/A4 Air Force Supply 

   U.S. Air Force Material Systems Group 

   U.S. Army Intelligence Center Ft. Huachuca, Arizona 

   U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command's consortium developing the Bob Hope-class large, medium-speed, roll- on/roll-off transport 

   U.S. Navy: Naval Air Warfare Center Indiana 

   U.S. Navy: Office of Naval Research-Navy Ship System Enterprise

United States Department of Energy:

   Office of the Secretary of Energy:  WIPP (nuclear waste isolation project) 

University of Louisiana: National Center for Advanced Manufacturing

University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal Ocean Observation and Analysis 

USWest DEX 

Videolog Communications 

Wallaceburg, Canada 

Warren County, New York Economic Development Commission 

Wright Express 

Xerox Corporation