As founder and Chief Executive Officer at IDEO, Kelley has built a flexible structure that allows his staff of 300 to work as multidisciplinary teams in a variety of industries. These teams include experts in the fields of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Software Development and Manufacturing Liaison. IDEO has helped develop more than 3,000 products for hundreds of clients ranging from Silicon Valley start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. With offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, London and Tokyo, IDEO has become one of the largest firms of its kind.

Kelley is a tenured professor in Stanford's innovative Product Design program, which combines engineering courses with those from the Art and Computer Science Departments and the Graduate School of Business.

Steelcase, America's largest office furniture company, recently formed a strategic alliance with IDEO to strengthen the company's process of innovation and reflect the impact of new office technologies. As part of that alliance, Kelley aims to assist Steelcase as Vice President of Technical Discovery and Innovation in the pursuit of innovative solutions for the workplace.

Frequently interviewed and featured in the business press, IDEO has been highlighted on several national television programs such as CNN's Future Watch and CNBC's Management Today. And for the past five years, IDEO has enjoyed first place on BusinessWeek's annual list of the leading American design firms. Business guru, Tom Peters, has written extensively about IDEO's unique and innovative culture in several of his books and publications including "Liberation Management." Additionally, Stanford professor Robert Sutton is currently writing a book about IDEO entitled The Attitude of Wisdom: How the World's Most Successful Product Design Firm Innovates Routinely, Makes Work Fun, and Pleases Clients. IDEO also is examined in Harvard Business School Professor John Kao's best-selling book Jamming, which showcases companies that apply highly creative management methods to achieve constant innovation.