Founder and Managing Director, Blenheim Park Orchard and Estate -- 16 acre cherry farm, event center and lodging in the beautiful midcoast of Maine.

SCORE’s mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through mentoring and education. With the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, SCORE has helped more than 11 million entrepreneurs since 1964.

BLUE48 RETREAT, a non-profit organization based on 16 private, lakeside, wooded, acres in the beautiful midcoast region of Maine, hosts healing and restorative programs for children who have lost a family member to suicide.www.blue48.org

Since 1996, Kerry has worked with thousands of small and medium sized businesses around the world, through her executive roles with the Australian Government, Results Accountants’ Systems, The Accountants' Boot Camp, Ran One and Principa, the global consulting network she co-founded in 2001. In line with Principa's commitment to help business owners enjoy a ‘Better business, Better life’ she now brings a selection of the powerful business-building tools and methodologies in use by Principa clients and their teams around the globe, to the SME market, via a suite of on-demand business development programs.

Kerry is an Australian photographer based in Maine. In 2015 she was named ‘Moving Images Photographer of the Year’ by the Lucie Foundation, which honors the greatest achievements in photography. Her photography has been published and exhibited internationally. A partial list of publications includes Marie Claire (Italy and Brazil), Esquire, New York Times Lensblog, Time Lightbox, The Sydney Morning Herald, Revista Photo Magazine (Brazil), ProPhoto (Australia), The Huffington Post and Burn Magazine, among others. Her project ‘Left Behind’ was exhibited on billboards throughout Sydney, Australia, and via a solo show and reception at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC. “Instant Love Story” was exhibited at the Center for Photography, Woodstock in “The Space Between”, showcasing contemporary smartphone photographers. Kerry has presented work and participated in photography related panel discussions with The International Center of Photography, Aperture and the New School in NYC, and at Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.Her nonprofit clients include The United Nations Foundation, where she is a Senior Fellow of #instacorp, and the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention. She is a partner in the initiative 1in20, providing a platform for people living with mental illness, and their caregivers, to share their experiences through the art of visual storytelling. Additionally, she has advised Noor Images, Burn Magazine, and Magnum photographers David Alan Harvey and Steve McCurry along with James Nachtwey and Peter Turnley, in the areas of social media marketing, sales and strategy.www.kerrypaynestailey.net

Photo workshop programming, 2018/2019/2020. Website + catalog content and copy.

Public Programming: Conceived, produced and hosted a series of public programs, lectures and panel discussions with image-makers, artists, experts, academics, and critics responding to the images that shape contemporary culture and current events today.Alumni Engagement: Kerry's brief was to construct a rich and varied offering of alumni programs that showcase ICP strengths, recognize and respond to evolving alumni interests and communication preferences and to cultivate and strengthen ICP's alumni relationships both locally and internationally, by coordinating alumni-related communication, events, and exhibitions.The goal of the ICP Alumni program is to strengthen alumni relations and sense of community, increase the visibility of ICP alumni, aid in the recruitment of new students, and increase support of the ICP school, museum and community programs by alumni through philanthropy and service.

NOOR is a collective uniting a select group of highly accomplished photojournalists and documentary storytellers focusing on contemporary global issues. NOOR, which is headquartered in Amsterdam, is made up of twelve photographers from eight different countries: Nina Berman, Andrea Bruce, Stanley Greene and Jon Lowenstein (USA), Yuri Kozyrev (Russia), Giancarlo Ceraudo and Francesco Zizola, (Italy), Philip Blenkinsop (Australia), Pep Bonet (Spain), Alixandra Fazzina (UK), Jan Grarup (Denmark) and Kadir van Lohuizen (the Netherlands). As NOOR's Director for Business Development and USA representative, Kerry brought her business experience and her understanding of the photographic environment together and was charged with development of new business initiatives.

Principa was created solely to turn the challenges facing the small and medium-sized business communities around the world into opportunities for forward thinking accounting practices and business consulting firms.In a nutshell, Principa teaches CPA’s how to be a business coach and provides them with the tools, methodology, network and support they need to successfully implement. It's a win-win-win -- the advisor has a ready-made, turnkey consulting business, their clients benefit from the collective knowledge of more than 3,000 firms worldwide, and when they both win, Principa does too, enabling the network to continue developing new applications, programs and tools. As co-founder and owner, Kerry wore every hat in the start up phase, and serving as Vice President, helped grow the business to include offices and teams in Australia, the USA and England, with clients and programs in seven countries.

BURN Magazine strives to walk the cutting edge of contemporary photography, with a "no rules" approach to the medium, and an open blog-style forum of opinions, critiques, suggestions, and sometimes heated debate and controversy. In 2009 BURN won the coveted "Photography Magazine of the Year" Lucie award, making it the first online-only publication ever to receive the award. In 2012 Burn received a second Lucie for Book Publisher of the Year with David Alan Harvey's groundbreaking book 'based on a true story', and book publishing became an extension of the Burn philosophy and product offering. In its start up phase, Kerry advised Burn founder and Magnum photographer, David Alan Harvey, on strategy and social media integration, in addition to securing funding for specialized projects.

As Vice President of Applications and Content for Ran One (formerly Results Accountants' Systems) Kerry was responsible for product and program development and online services for North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. Leading a team of 12 content specialists Kerry created business development and consulting methodology and implementation training materials and programs for the accounting profession, small and mid-sized business operators and the Ran One coaches who supported them.

As Vice President of Client Services at Results Accountants' Systems Kerry led a global team of 40 Practice Development Advisors' (PDA's) selling into and supporting approximately 3,000 professional service firms throughout North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. In addition to training and developing her own team of PDA's, she was responsible for the creation and implementation of sales methodology, coaching tools, training programs and support modules to help their clients make the transition from accountant/bean counter to business advisor /coach. In this capacity Kerry developed and delivered sales systems and coaching and business development seminars (live and online) to thousands of accounting firms and their team members worldwide.

As a Government appointed business adviser, Kerry provided management coaching, business marketing, strategy, and growth advice to small and mid sized businesses throughout Central Queensland. She also developed and delivered business growth seminars and workshops statewide.

With a budget of $5million my brief was to conceive, initiate and manage a labor market program that assisted long term unemployed back into the workforce, while at the same time benefiting the local community. Projects I was responsible for included: - restoration of a historical railway station - construction of an historical village - major waterways cleanup