Measuring Risk VS. Reward
Kelly Swan is a 25-year veteran of oil/gas where he served in leadership posts for Oklahoma-based MAPCO, Williams, WPX Energy and Devon. He specialized in media relations, change management, resolving public disputes and advising C-Suite leaders. He was a ghostwriter for six CEOs, managed PR for billion-dollar deals, earned 11 awards for news writing, trained 1,000 people in crisis response, managed large philanthropy budgets and worked on a 2017 Super Bowl ad. At age 49, he traded his career for his calling to help scale a 501c3 he founded called Filling The Void. This year his nonprofit will feed and minister to nearly 100,000 people across 7 cities in 3 time zones. Over the years, he has raised $2 million to help change the trajectory of people experiencing homelessness. Kelly and his wife, Jeannette, have five children and one grandchild. He is a 1994 graduate of the University of Tulsa.