KEEPING UP WITH KELLEY

Kelley Powell head shot with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a bright pink blouse and a silver necklace.
Kelley Powell head shot with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a bright pink blouse and a silver necklace.

Genuine. Professional. Camera Ready. Corporate Talent with a Human Touch.

Kelley brings a rare combination to every project: warmth and credibility, along with the polish of an accomplished professional shaped by three decades in corporate America. With leadership experience across Fortune 500 environments in telecom, digital marketing, retail, and learning, she offers a level of insight that few female voiceover or on camera professionals can match.

Clients including The Home Depot and RentPath have trusted her for industrial voice work, corporate video, and e-learning voiceover that feels polished, authentic, and immediately relatable.

Kelley Powell on camera look with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a black and gray snakeskin-patterned jacket, with her arms crossed and looking at the camera.

Where Passion Met the Microphone

Kelley’s love for performance started early, and loudly. As a child, she was frequently in trouble at school for talking too much, driven by an innate desire to explain concepts, help others, give speeches, and host. When she was about 12 years old, she became utterly obsessed with The Wizard of Oz. Armed with a giant comic book version of the story, bought by her mother, Kelley meticulously copied down the scripting for every single character. She made custom costumes, recruited the neighborhood kids, and directed her very first “play” right in her basement.

Back then, she was also busy playing “classroom” with her stuffed animals and dolls, completely unaware that this childhood game would blossom into a lifelong career in adult learning. Years later, while working for MCI, she found her true calling in facilitation, loving nothing more than watching the “lightbulb” go on as people learned.

Kelley Powell with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a light blue button-up shirt.

Corporate Facilitation to Silvercup Studios

During her time at MCI, her corporate career intersected naturally with professional performance. Selected from a large internal talent pool, she appeared in national television commercials for the company’s “Friends and Family” and “Best Friends” campaigns and traveled to New York to film at Silvercup Studios. The experience marked the beginning of her professional on camera work and helped establish her as trusted talent for corporate video and voiceover commercials.

Recognizing her natural charisma, MCI began utilizing her talents across the board, tapping her to travel and host corporate award shows and film internal training videos. In almost every corporate role Kelley held throughout her career, she organically carved a path back to the microphone and the lens.

Kelley on set, smiling and talking in a hardware store aisle, with shelves of building materials and display boards surrounding her.

A Lifetime of Performance

Across educational, commercial, and live performance work, Kelley has built a portfolio that reflects both range and reliability. Her style combines warmth, authority, and ease: qualities clients often seek in female voice actors, documentary narrators, documentary voice talent, and voice announcers alike.

Deeply rooted in her community and faith, Kelley has spent years performing in church Christmas programs, skits, and musical ensembles. She is frequently invited to speak at or host women’s conferences, and her natural emceeing talent is so trusted that close friends have even asked her to host their weddings.