Kelly Hines is the Vice President, Chief of Staff at Discovery Education, where she partners with executive leadership to drive strategic alignment across the organization and strengthen the systems, processes, and people-centered practices that enable teams to execute effectively at scale. In her role, Kelly leads enterprise efforts focused on organizational development, leadership effectiveness, operating rhythm, and cross-functional collaboration—ensuring that priorities translate into clear plans, sustainable processes, and measurable outcomes that support both business performance and educator impact.

With a career that began in the classroom as an elementary educator in North Carolina, Kelly brings a practitioner’s perspective to the evolving role of technology in teaching and learning. She spent 15 years teaching grades 3–6, specializing in gifted education, and earned National Board Certification before transitioning into leadership roles supporting educator success at scale. She holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and a master’s degree in Educational/Instructional Media Design from Wilkes University.

Today, Kelly works across business, product, and education teams to design people-centered strategies that improve employee experience, enable innovation, and help organizations better serve global learning communities in a rapidly changing education landscape.