- Nearly two decades across sustainability, corporate responsibility, and stakeholder engagement
- Ten years of construction industry experience at Brasfield & Gorrie
- Experience supporting complex construction, data center, commercial, and infrastructure environments
- Built an award-winning supplier opportunity program for small businesses
- Established relationships across business, government, nonprofit, and community leadership
Natalie Kelly has always seen infrastructure for what it can make possible. At its best, it can meet an essential need while creating opportunity and moving a community forward. Through nearly two decades of work, she saw an opportunity to strengthen the connection between those advancing major projects and the people and places they affect. She founded Common Source Partners to meet that need and help good projects deliver more of their potential.
Her career began in sustainability strategy and grew into broader work helping major projects engage communities and expand access to opportunity. During ten years at Brasfield & Gorrie, Natalie rose to Vice President of Corporate Responsibility. Her work on complex construction and infrastructure projects, from data centers to commercial developments, gave her a close view of what helps a project earn trust and deliver value beyond what gets built — proof that the technical and human sides of a project succeed or stall together.
Natalie also created an award-winning supplier opportunity program that helped small businesses compete for contracts in their own communities. Before joining Brasfield & Gorrie, she founded SUSTAIN Strategy & Media, where she advised organizations on sustainability, corporate responsibility and stakeholder engagement.
Natalie's connection to infrastructure is both professional and personal. Her father built one of the most prominent road construction companies in the Southeast, and her family continues that legacy today through a natural gas pipeline company. Growing up in that world gave her an early, firsthand understanding of what infrastructure means to communities, economies and quality of life.
Her years of leadership work have deepened that understanding and allowed her to see projects from both sides of the table. Natalie is known for connecting people who do not always speak the same language. That fluency across perspectives is the foundation of Common Source Partners and how she helps clients build trust, solve challenges, and create stronger outcomes.
We work with clients who share our belief that responsible infrastructure is measured by more than whether it gets built. It should land well, respect the place it becomes part of and create value that extends beyond the project itself.
Our name originates from a simple but powerful belief: development and community share a common source, and when aligned intentionally, both are stronger for it.
Reflects what is shared: opportunity, responsibility, and the outcomes that shape communities.
Speaks to origin and foundation. Before a project breaks ground, there is a place, a history, and a community whose future will be shaped by what is built there.
Reflects how we show up. We work alongside developers, builders, municipalities, and communities to create outcomes that strengthen both projects and the places they call home.
Infrastructure and community are not opposing forces.
When aligned intentionally, both become stronger.