Kelly Forbes

Questioner
DISC Type : c

Corporate Business Manager at Voyageur Services Limited

Canada

Overview

Kelly Forbes is an experienced manager with a 33-year career at Ontario Power Generation, specializing in the nuclear industry. Now the Corporate Business Manager at Voyageur Services Limited, she has extensive expertise in project management (PMP), contract management, and workforce planning. She holds a LEAN Green Belt certification.

Beyond her extensive professional career, Kelly is dedicated to giving back to her community through volunteer work. Her recent activities show a strong focus on celebrating team achievements and promoting excellence in workplace safety within her organization.

After spending over three decades with one company, she transitioned into a key management role at a new firm.

Personality Overview

Systematic

Price-Sensitive

Value Seeker

They prefer to analyze every situation thoroughly.
  They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. It is quite likely of them to ask for pricing or other concessions.

Topics They Care About

Workplace Safety
Actively promotes and celebrates her company's commitment to safety, highlighting its nomination for Canada's Safest New Employer in 2025.
Nuclear Operations
Has a deep background in nuclear station systems, including operations, maintenance, and delivering specialized "New to Nuclear" training programs.
Workforce Development
Managed onboarding, training, and workforce planning for major projects, including a secondment to a joint venture to handle staffing for a key refurbishment.

Media Appearances

Kelly has no verified media appearances

Work History

1-2022
Corporate Business Manager at Voyageur Services Limited
7-2021 - 1-2022
Program Co-Ordinator at Nuclear Power Group
5-2018 - 12-2020
Manager, Commercial Management at Ontario Power Generation
10-2016 - 5-2018
Manager, Onboarding Processes & Nuclear/QA Training (Secondment to Joint Venture - AECON/SNC) at Aecon Group Inc.
6-2015 - 10-2016
Section Manager Training, RTS, Commissioning and Modifications at Ontario Power Generation

Education

Business Management from Durham College
Project Management from UNENE Nuclear Engineering

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Insights For Selling To Kelly

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Emphasise more on facts and measurable benefits
  • Emphasize on objective proof of ROI, help them do a thorough evaluation
  • Back up any claims with data and numbers

DONT's

  • Avoid rushing them, be polite and patient
  • Don’t try to be too friendly or informal with them
  • Don’t depend too much on anecdotal evidence, it reduces their confidence

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Kelly is

  • Ensuring that the product delivers ROI, cost-effective pricing and process compliance are very important for them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Kelly

  • It doesn’t come naturally to them but they can say no if they are not convinced.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Kelly move?

  • If they have the information that they need, they can move fast at making their decisions.
  • Can Kelly take some risk or not?

  • They can take risk if they are convinced that they have analyzed the circumstances well.


You And Kelly

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