About

Katherine Holt

Founding member, Peakinsight LLC

Katherine Holt specializes in organization development for sustainability. She consults with clients on future leadership challenges and understanding the perspectives of diverse stakeholders. She designs programs to develop leaders who will grow healthy and sustainable organizations as well as high performing ones. She coaches executives on creating strategic blueprints, taking risks, and increasing the speed of implementation. She challenges clients to take a systemic view of change and engage the "kokoro" (i.e., heart, mind, spirit, and will) of everyone. She uses the Innovation Horizons toolkit to enhance innovation in teams. Her collaborative learning approach stimulates new awareness about possibilities for the creative evolution of organizations.

As a ZERI practitioner, she promotes the adoption of sustainable practices to eliminate waste and achieve triple bottom line results. Katherine sees the world differently, asks penetrating questions, and is not afraid to spark controversy. She is passionate about people making changes that make a difference.

Dr. Holt worked for Personnel Decisions International (PDI) for 16 years prior to establishing her own firm. She managed PDI's office in Tokyo from 1994-2000 and was widely recognized as one of the top executive coaches in Asia-Pacific during those years. She served on ASTD's board of directors from 2000-2002, where she chaired the strategic directions committee. She is deeply committed to collaborative learning and is a research member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL). She chaired the 2001 Linkage Change Conference and reviews books on change leadership for Berrett-Koehler and Pfeiffer/Jossey-Bass.

Over the past 20 years, Katherine has consulted with clients in many industries, including Aetna, Agilent Technologies, Air Products and Chemicals, Allergan, American Express, Apple, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, BMW, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Brown-Forman, BT Group, Cargill, Citicorp, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Consumers Power, Diageo, Dun & Bradstreet, Eaton, Eli Lilly, Ford Motor, Freddie Mac, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, JohnsonDiversey, JP Morgan Chase, Lucent Technologies, McDonald's, Merck, Microsoft, Motorola, Northwest Airlines, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Pharmacia Upjohn, S.C. Johnson, Shopko, Southern Company, Spansion, Sun Microsystems, Target, Texas Instruments, Toys 'R Us, Transcontinental, and Utilicorp. She has also created assessment and executive development programs for various cities, states and the U.S. federal government.

Katherine received her Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She completed ZERI certification in 2003. She is based in Durango, Colorado.

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