Dave Kelly

Dave's a professional student leadership expert, experienced campus, state, and international student leader and advisor, speaker, author (published 4 books), trainer, and coach/consultant. He focuses on student leadership development, running better campus organizations, and building awesome student governments – Dave’s the APCA SGA expert! His presentations are high energy, interactive, fun, and content rich. He has spoken/trained more than 750 times on 400+ campuses. Dave coordinates APCA Serves, APCA’s community service initiative, has twice received APCA Campus Speaker of the Year honors (2019 and 2022) and also was 2023 Lecturer of the Year for the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities!