Kelly Paxton is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Private Investigator, and Professional Speaker. She also is the founder of Great Women in Fraud, a podcast. In addition, she published Embezzlement: How to Prevent, Detect and Investigate Pink-Collar Crime in December 2020.

Embezzlement by trusted employees, workplace investigations, background investigations of employees, due diligence, open-source intelligence, and civil matters involving litigation support are all types of cases Kelly Paxton has experience with.

Kelly also has the website www.pinkcollarcrime.com which is devoted to information regarding embezzlement. She regularly speaks on embezzlement and ethics. Kelly is known as the Pink Collar Crime expert. She is a subject matter expert who works and studies these types of cases. She regularly blogs on pink-collar crime.

Kelly also speaks about ethics. Her presentations, Honestly Dishonest and Could versus Should, are different from regular ethics training. Videos, interaction, and cutting-edge research and resources are the basis for much more engaging training. Ethics training no longer needs to be boring and having an attorney says, "It depends." You will leave the training with a new mindset.

Before starting Financial CaseWorks LLC, she worked as an analyst for the Washington County Sheriff's Office Fraud Identity Theft Enforcement Team (FITE).

Before joining the FITE team, she performed background investigations for the Washington County Sheriff's Office. She also has seven years of experience as a contract special investigator for the Office of Personnel Management and Homeland Security.

Ms. Paxton was a Special Agent for the US Customs Office of Investigations from 1993-1998. During this time, she was assigned to the money laundering and white-collar crime unit.

Specialties: Embezzlement cases, workplace investigations, identity theft cases, elder abuse cases, breach of fiduciary duties, pink collar crime, misappropriation of assets, LinkedIn, Social Media, open-source intelligence (OSINT), Public Speaking