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Katherine Smith Consulting Partner |
ABOUT KATHRINE SMITH, Ph.D
Katherine T. Smith, Ph.D., is a leadership coach who makes it possible for professionals to pursue ambitious new strategies and overcome the strong pull of habitual patterns.
Katherine offers busy executives successful models for fostering personal mastery and intervening effectively within organizational systems. Her models are drawn from over two decades of experience as a former employee of several large organizations, and as a clinical psychologist and leadership coach.
Katherine established the Center for Self-Mastery at Work, which guides leaders in developing individual excellence, productive work relationships, and more versatility, vitality and adaptability day in and day out.
Among Katherine’s clients are executives in international communications and consulting, financial planning, insurance, sales, engineering, academia, small business, government relations, and nonprofits. Katherine’s clients benefit from her broad background, which emphasizes conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, communication, and moving effectively with various personality types. She is particularly adept at helping people who are already highly functional to identify and challenge nonproductive patterns in order to fully master their work settings.
Katherine brings academic, practical and clinical educational credentials to bear on her coaching of executives. She is certified in the use of The Birkman, a powerful tool for understanding personality and motivation. Her post-graduate training is in personal coaching, nonverbal communication and systems theory, the latter in prestigious programs at both the Menninger Foundation and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Katherine also has an undergraduate degree in economics, a master’s degree in social work, and a doctorate in clinical psychology.
Katherine’s extensive experience in advising people on personal and professional performance, especially in the realm of working effectively with others, has convinced her “we must master ourselves in order to become masterful in the workplace.”ul.
