Dr Kelly is a company director and is Professor and Head of the QUT Graduate School of Business. She has over 30 years of commercial experience, including as a commercial lawyer, strategy consultant and researcher. Sarah currently serves as a non-executive director on several boards, including as Deputy Chair of the Brisbane Lions AFL Football Club, Deputy Chair Tourism and Events Qld, and as a Director on the Brisbane 2032 Games Organizing Committee. She is the Queensland Chapter Leader for the Minerva Network, a national social enterprise concerned with providing mentoring by c-suite women to professional sportswomen.