Katie is a highly regarded consultant and coach who has been working in senior management roles in organisational change, leadership development, and learning and organisational development in organisations for over a decade. She is experienced in formulating and implementing strategies that enhance individual, team and organisational performance. Katie brings evidence-based research from academic studies and combines it with both elite sport experience as well as organisational experience from a range of sectors including education, retail, utilities, government, insurance and transport.

Katie’s approach to coaching is collaborative, systematic and solution focused. She leverages from strength-based approaches, positive psychology and performance psychology to help others uncover and refine solutions, with the aim of enhancing both performance and well-being. By building high trust relationships, clients are supported to explore goals and opportunities for growth as well as innovative ways to positively impact their surrounding systems.

Katie’s unique experience as a dual Olympian and international rowing coach has enabled her to understand the steps needed to perform on a world stage. She was ranked number one in Australia for almost ten years, one of the first females to become a Head Coach of a national rowing team and has recently been granted the use of the post-nominal letters OLY as recognition of her contribution to sport. Katie is now an ambassador for the Women’s Olympic Network, one of ten selected mentors for the Australian Olympic Committee as well as a mentor for the Australian Rowing Team. She is passionate about sustainable, long term performance and is currently conducting research on the topic of resilience at the University of Sydney.

Katie holds a Master of Science (Coaching Psychology) degree from the University of Sydney, post graduate qualifications in Psychology from Deakin University and a Science degree from the University of Melbourne. She is a lecturer for the MBA program at Federation University, a certified practitioner of the Team Management Systems (TMS) and Mental Toughness (MTQPlus) instruments and a member of the University of Sydney Coaching and Mentoring Association. Katie has also just created a website to provide small to medium size businesses with the resources they need during challenging times (www.go-wide.org). 

An expert at multi-tasking, in addition to her consulting, coaching, lecturing, research and studies, Katie provides pro-bono leadership development to local schools and sporting clubs. She is married with two young girls.