Kathleen Cabot-Smith
Assisting leaders in creating profound change in their organizations
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- Expert: Organizational Leadership and Change
- Executive Coach and Advisor to Fortune 100s
- Keynote Speaker
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Kathleen Cabot-Smith is a Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach and Organizational Consultant with nearly three decades of experience in helping corporate leaders achieve their most ambitious and valued goals. Kathleen has assisted more than one thousand executives and executive teams in more than 200 companies on five continents. She has logged more than 100,000 hours in individual coaching and organizational consultation, helping leaders create environments where people engage, belong and contribute.
Kathleen’s expertise—assisting leaders in creating profound change in their organizations and in their personal lives—has resulted in long-standing client relationships, often spanning a decade, with renowned companies such as American Express, PricewaterhouseCoopers, ATT, GE, NASA, Dupont, Marriott, Dow Chemical, Cardinal Health and United Telecom. She has been retained in the public sector by the U.S. Army, USDA, SSA, EPA, and Department of Health and Human Services.
Kathleen has been the trusted personal coach to countless senior executives, C-Suite officers, and CEO’s who regard her work as transformational in their lives. She has repeatedly helped corporate teams to landmark breakthroughs in new product innovation, client service alignment, post-merger/acquisition re-organization, development of emerging leader talent, and complex culture change processes impacting multiple layers of management and corporate constituency.
Kathleen, CEO of Cabot Smith, Inc., has founded three companies, including the widely-successful LeadersCore®, which has employed more than 100 individuals in corporate settings across the globe, delivering signature services and netting millions of dollars in client revenue. She held early leadership positions in the Federal Reserve, 3M, and the Mead Corporation, and was a labor contract negotiations expert with Stern-Slegman-Prins. In addition to her pro bono projects supporting education and protection of women and children, Kathleen has served on the boards of Insight Institute and National Press Publications, and has served as advisor to The Children’s Place, a child advocacy center.
In addition to being a sought-after consultant and savvy executive coach, Kathleen is a frequently requested speaker, master trainer and author. She is co-author of the widely popular Riding the Waves Without Getting Wet: A Leadership Parable (2007), and holds professional affiliations with American Society of Training and Development, World Future Society, American Society for Quality, International Coach Federation and the International Society for Performance Improvement. She has been a master trainer and keynote speaker at nearly 1,000 events worldwide.
Kathleen’s degrees and certifications in multiple disciplines, include Adult Assessment and Intervention, Transition Management, Maccoby Strategic Intelligence for Leadership, Coaching, Certification Testing, Process Engineering, Sales, and Speech. She is a graduate of Kansas State University and the Hudson Institute, where Frederic Hudson was her personal mentor. Her continued work and research in the field of organizational leadership and human potential development, was the subject of her recent speech on Leadership and Organizational Engagement at Harvard’s Kennedy School for Public Leadership.
Are all leaders destined to disappoint their followers? What does it take to be a leader in these days of rollercoaster economic shifts, sweeping global and cultural changes, changing face of workforce expectations and entitlements? How do you create an environment where people engage, belong and contribute? How do you sustain the interest, performance and loyalty of top performers? What can be done to raise the bar for both culture and bottom-line results? With what intelligences must leaders be armed to capitalize versus capsize on these changes? The answer may surprise you.
This session is intended for those in leadership positions in organizations; public or private. It has been presented to groups from C-level to mid-level leadership and to business school professors and executives.
On the rising tide of expectations, expediency and ever-expanding workload, we find communication, relationships, and quality often suffer. Changes in compliance, technology and market requirements call for sustained peak performance. How do you maintain the pace, ride the crest and avoid the crush?
This session has been delivered to C-level leaders and all other levels within organizations and associations, including general audiences. It is focused on the internal shifts necessary to make which will encourage participants to gain an internal locus of control, more resilience in the face of change and increase their influence on positive results for themselves and others.
Often buzzwords are so misused that we lose sight of their significance. Empowerment is a noble and much needed attribute in an arsenal of managerial and leadership practices. However, it has lost its meaning. What is the difference between empowerment and delegation? What is the tipping point between empowerment and abandonment? Use true empowerment to drive responsibility and accountability to every level in your organization. Create true ownership and pride in results.
This session has been given at every level of leadership in organizations, public, private, government and military.
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