Kelly Dunsdon

Kelly is a whizz in all areas of the business and has a good and thorough understanding of how each department works, to ensure that the team feels fully supported at all times. She also ensures that any new team members are onboarded and welcomed into the team seamlessly.

Alongside this, Kelly also works closely with the SLT on projects and tasks to ensure that the business is constantly moving forward and loves to bring new ideas to the table.  Ranging from research, to award submissions and much more – Kelly’s got it covered!

Kelly also nurtures our community of Virtual Assistants and has created a safe and welcoming community for them to enjoy, hosting regular virtual coffee mornings and lunch and learns, to ensure that they also feel supported and are able to constantly evolve their knowledge, keeping their skills current and fresh.

Having been through the hard experience of having to relinquish a long career in financial services, due to lack of flexibility.  Kelly is also super passionate about working for a business that supports so many women to have a wonderful, yet fully flexible career as a Virtual Assistant.

Before working at Virtalent, Kelly worked in financial services for many years starting off as an Office Junior and then progressed her career, through lots of hard work, to become Global Head of Client Liaison.  The industry was fast-paced,full of variety, exciting and a huge challenge, but Kelly absolutely loved the work. 

However, once she became a Mum and due to the lack of flexibility, Kelly decided to change the course of her career.  Here her experience becomes more varied.

Kelly has worked as an Administrator, alongside setting up a jewellery business, which she grew quickly and successfully, but later sold.  Using all of the knowledge that she’d learned from starting and running her own business, Kelly then took on a role as a Consultant supporting and teaching women how to set-up and grow their own businesses, which she found incredibly rewarding.

Following this Kelly worked as PA to the Headteacher at a struggling secondary school, where she supported the Senior Leadership Team through a massive period of transition and Ofsted inspections.  During and post-pandemic, Kelly also worked with her husband to market, grow and scale his martial arts business.

Kelly loves being able to use all of the many skills that she’s acquired through her career and apply them to her role at Virtalent.

Outside of work, Kelly loves to visit the theatre to watch musicals and writes the odd theatre review, she also enjoys reading.  Now that her daughter is living away at university, Kelly makes the most of being able to spend as much time as possible with her, when she is home.  

Kelly’s also recently became cat Mum to her little kitten – Jenny, who likes to take centre stage in virtual meetings and keeps her company whilst she works at her desk.