@Sara, Simply Me --

It' makes absolutely ZERO difference who manages Kelly Rowland. The brute force of her being that sitting U.K. X-Factor Judge/Mentor should've been ALL the 'needed' promotion and validation of her, and her brand..!!! Being handed those 'keys to heaven' should've EASILY trumped any "mismanagement".

(K, let me entertain you both..) Why does Kelly Rowland suffer, so frequently, from such said "mismanagement"? Or, does she really?

Before her current management team, there was Matthew Knowles. While I'm no "industry insider", I can safely say, one 'non producing' CD does NOT get an artist dropped! Especially during those 'boom, pre-recession, discretionary-spend thrift' days.
..That said, and simply put: 2002's "Simply Deep", and 2007's "Ms. Kelly" FAILED..!!
Her label, Colombia, soon after fired her! There were then 'howls of scorn' heaped upon Matthew Knowles AND Beyonce: an "anti-Kelly conspiracy" was afoot.
For 30-something-year-old Kelly Rowland, that "blog noise" became too "loud", and she fired Matthew Knowles and sought new management.

..So here we are, today, now almost 2-years since her "liberation" from that "hating/career-sabotaging" Matthew Knowles. And, yet again, here we are, trying to put 'reason to rhyme' as to why, after being given such once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, we're again witness to epic, if not biblical failure(s): "Here I am".

And even though X-Factor U.K. now gives way to BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing", it's STILL one of T-H-E, now most WEEKLY-watched, of U.K. shows. How, under heaven, do you NOT capitalize on such ethereal exposure..?! How, after being voted one of X-Factor's 'most popular', do you NOT leverage THAT into CD sales???

..Does the obvious, now, still escapes you-all??

X,Y,"and Z" -- OUT..!!