After Divorce. After a Major Life Change. After Leaving an Institution.
When life shifts beneath your feet and you're asking "What do I do next?" — you need more than advice. You need someone who's navigated profound transitions themselves and helped others do the same.
Not coaching. Not therapy. Strategic guidance for life transitions — grounded in 30+ years building new beginnings across 60+ countries, from post-war Lebanon to Africa's most challenging environments.
Life has changed.
Now what?
Maybe you've just gone through a divorce. Maybe you've left a long-term institution or career. Maybe a major life event has shifted everything you thought you knew.
The ground beneath you feels different. The old certainties don't apply.
You're not broken. You're in transition. And you need someone who understands what that actually means.
Someone who's built new beginnings from scratch — multiple times, across continents, after their own profound life changes.
What you need isn't another self-help framework.
It's strategic guidance from someone who's been there — and helped hundreds navigate similar crossroads.
From Transition to Clarity
Whether you're navigating divorce, leaving an institution, or facing a major life change — this work helps you move from uncertainty to intentional next steps.
Experience-based guidance
Drawing from 30+ years navigating major transitions — from post-war rebuilding to career pivots across continents — I help you see the path forward.
Practical clarity
Not theory or platitudes. We work on your specific situation: What needs to happen next? What are your actual options? How do you rebuild?
Building what's next
From someone who's built businesses, careers, and new beginnings across war zones and new countries — you get strategic support for your fresh start.
Private Clarity Session
90 minutes. One focus. Confidential.
What's included
- 90-minute video session scheduled at your convenience.
- Written synthesis of key patterns and language that surfaced.
- Complete confidentiality — all conversations remain private.
This is for you if:
- You're facing a major life transition (divorce, career change, post-institutional life)
- You need strategic guidance, not just emotional support
- You're ready to rebuild and want clarity on next steps
- You value experience over theory
Standard rate
Income-adjusted rate
$200
Available for those in transition
Limited availability. Response within 48 hours.
Built on a foundation of resilience and reinvention.
I am Kelly Aburi — dual Lebanese/British national who has lived between Kenya, Lebanon, and the world since navigating my own profound transitions.
After Lebanon's civil war ended, I didn't just survive — I rebuilt. Became an entrepreneur, opening a hotel and restaurant in the Lebanese Mountains. Then became Beirut's first real estate agent in a city learning to stand again.
Those transitions taught me something fundamental: how to build from uncertainty.
Global Recognition & Awards:
- • 2001 Middle East Regional Entrepreneur Award (Tetra Pak)
- • 2005 Global Ruben Rausing Entrepreneur Award (Tetra Pak)
- • 2006 UNDP Global Humanitarian Business Award
- • 2010 Honored by Iranian government for dairy value chain work
- • 2013 Child Rights in Business Award
For 18 years, I worked for Tetra Pak across 60+ countries — Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, and across Africa. Not easy places. Not places that welcomed women in leadership. But I built trust, developed government relationships, and created sustainable change in school feeding and dairy development.
In 2010, I made another major transition: moved to Kenya as Sub-Saharan Director, managing projects across an entire continent.
In 2016, I transitioned again — from corporate leadership to entrepreneurship. Opened Hob House, an upmarket bed & breakfast with a traditional Lebanese restaurant in Kenya. Featured on CNN Africa Marketplace in 2020 as a restaurant creating disruptive business strategies.
In 2023, another beginning: brought fine Levantine dining to Kenya's coast. Hob House Coast opened in 2024 in Malindi as East Africa's first environmentally conscious Levantine restaurant and hotel.
The thread through every transition? Building trust — with governments, communities, partners, and most importantly, with myself.
Today, I'm an advocate and speaker on Conscious Business, Personal Branding, and Ethical Leadership. But more importantly, I work privately with people navigating the kind of transitions I know firsthand: when everything changes and you need to figure out what's next.
In our age of AI and digital disconnection, my purpose is restoring the human element in communication. Because in transitions, genuine human connection — built on trust and authentic presence — is what actually moves you forward.
Transitions don't have to be faced alone.
After divorce, after major change, after leaving what you knew —
work with someone who's rebuilt their own life multiple times and helped others do the same.