Our History
Kelly Sears Consulting Group was co-founded by Michael Kelly and Garry Sears, who had been long-time partners with KPMG Consulting in Ottawa.
Kelly Sears Consulting Group was federally incorporated in December 2001. From the beginning, the firm has specialized in management diagnostics, which is the assessment of organizational management practices using structured diagnostic tools.
In the late 1990's, Michael Kelly, while with KPMG, developed the "Capacity Check" diagnostic methodology in partnership with Treasury Board Secretariat. This tool enables organizations to assess their capabilities in each of some 33 management practices (e.g., leadership, planning, performance measurement, risk management, information management, external reporting). The tool was subsequently used in over 90 federal departments and agencies, under the Modern Management/Modern Comptrollership initiative.
In addition to management diagnostics, Kelly Sears specializes in performance measurement and evaluation. In 2005, the firm developed the Performance Check™ methodology, which has been used by several federal organizations as the basis for their organizational performance measurement framework.
The MAF Performance Check™ is being used to assess an organization's conformity to the Management Accountability Framework requirements established by Treasury Board Secretariat. In the field of program evaluation, the principals of Kelly Sears have conducted over 100 evaluation-related studies since 1979.