Kaylene Selk
Kaylene Selk
Head of Program Management & Strategic Delivery 🇺🇸
Kaylene Selk is a strategic program leader known for helping organizations translate complex strategy into clear, executable programs that deliver measurable impact. She specializes in operationalizing large-scale communications and engagement initiatives across global teams, bringing structure, alignment, and momentum to organizations navigating high-stakes moments of change.
At Stillpoint Advisory Group, Kaylene is developing a modern program management operating model designed to strengthen how complex client engagements are delivered. Her work focuses on establishing clear governance structures, standardized delivery workflows, and AI-enabled automations that streamline project tracking, reporting, and knowledge management across engagements. By integrating workflow automation, program intelligence dashboards, and shared documentation systems, she is helping teams reduce administrative friction while gaining greater visibility into program progress and performance.
In addition to building these firmwide capabilities, Kaylene partners closely with client teams to structure and operationalize complex initiatives. She works alongside advisors to translate strategy into clear workstreams, coordinate multi-team efforts across markets, and ensure programs mobilize quickly and execute with discipline. Her approach helps Stillpoint teams deliver sophisticated engagements more efficiently while maintaining strong operational rigor and alignment across stakeholders.
Kaylene also plays a role in strengthening program management capability across the firm, supporting teams with practical frameworks, tools, and guidance that improve how complex work is delivered.
Over a two-decade career at Edelman, Kaylene advised global brands and institutions including American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Amgen, and Pfizer. She led integrated teams responsible for complex, multi-market programs spanning creator engagement, corporate and employee communications, brand storytelling, crisis preparedness, and executive visibility. Her work often required coordinating cross-disciplinary teams across markets, time zones, and languages while ensuring programs remained tightly aligned to client strategy and business objectives.
Kaylene is particularly known for building the operational systems that enable complex programs to scale. She designed and operationalized a global creator vetting program that brought together nearly 90 specialists across 26 offices and 16 languages — establishing governance frameworks, workflows, and accountability structures that allowed creative programs to operate confidently in highly scrutinized environments.
Known for her calm leadership and systems-oriented mindset, Kaylene believes strong program management sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and team culture—ensuring that ambitious ideas can be delivered effectively and at scale.
Career Snapshot
Edelman – Senior Vice President, Group Program Director
Specialties
Strategic program management and delivery
Complex, multi-market program operationalization
Communications and engagement program design
Governance frameworks and workflow standardization
AI-enabled program operations and automation
Cross-functional team coordination and alignment
Creator and influencer program management
