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Katherine Holt, Peakinsight LLC

Katherine Holt provides global talent management and leadership development consulting. She works with clients to identify changing role requirements and strategic competencies for upgrading current and future talent. She helps companies revamp competency models and design new approaches for dealing with global complexity, paradoxes and multicultural effectiveness – along with tools for assessing and developing people in different cultures. She serves as an outsourcing liaison, facilitating the smooth integration of services from multiple global vendors.

Transformational coaching is one of her specialties – working with global executives to leverage their “being” dimension and unique skills to achieve breakthrough possibilities for themselves and their businesses. Katherine designs programs to develop leaders who will grow healthy and sustainable organizations as well as high performing ones. With her passion for innovation, she helps leaders shift their cultures and enhance innovation in teams. She challenges clients to take a systemic view of change, build relationships with diverse stakeholders and engage everyone in addressing key challenges. Her collaborative learning approach stimulates awareness about new possibilities.

Prior to establishing her own firm in 2000, Katherine worked for Personnel Decisions International (PDI) – where she was chief architect for The PROFILOR® family of 360 tools and started their offices in Asia. She has coached executives and consulted with global corporations for the past 20 years, particularly those in high-tech, pharma and financial services. She has provided assessment, coaching, team facilitation, training and/or supplied coaches for firms such as Agilent Technologies, Apple, BlackRock, BMW, Diageo, Donaldson, Equity One, Gap, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, HP, Microsoft, PRTM, St. Jude Medical, and 3M.

Asia-Pacific is a niche practice area for Katherine. She managed PDI Japan while doing executive coaching and talent management consulting throughout Asia-Pacific from 1993-2000. She now commutes between California, Japan, and China – where she continues to coach local nationals, support the on-boarding of expatriates, facilitate the development of cross-cultural teams, and assist companies to acquire and develop the talent they need to succeed in new markets.

Dr. Holt received her Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She is certified in a variety of tools including Cultural Intelligence (CQ), Global Competencies Inventory (GCI), Global Mindset Inventory (GMI), and Hogan Leadership Forecast Series. Her article on “Global Leadership: A Developmental Shift for Everyone” will appear in the June 2012 issue of SIOP’s IOP journal. She volunteers as a vision mentor in the World Pulse “Voices of Our Future” program.

Contact
Katherine Holt, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 910, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
P.O. Box 3487, Durango, CO 81302
Phone: +1-970-247-1180
Global Cell: +1-650-339-5579
Email:katherine@peakinsight.com

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COACHING APPROACH:
My coaching approach is based on what the client needs along with their personal energy/motivation. I am thoroughly grounded in an assessment-based, behavioral change approach to coaching. I've worked with some extremely talented clients whose careers were in jeopardy if they couldn't change certain aspects of their behavior. This type of coaching is skill-based, somewhat like having a personal trainer. I help clients learn and practice new behaviors, often using videotaping. Over the years my focus has shifted to helping organizations accelerate the development of high potentials. This type of coaching focuses more on helping people leverage their talents, maximize action learning opportunities, and often contribute to organizational change as well. I often start with 360-degree feedback to get rich behavioral data from multiple perspectives and conduct a stakeholder analysis to help the client identify critical relationship priorities. I may use interviews or other tools to develop a comprehensive picture of the person's strengths and challenges. I help the client set concrete coaching objectives and develop an action plan. After that I typically do event-based coaching, focusing on what the client is doing at work and how to achieve positive change. I do role-playing to help them increase their personal confidence and impact in handling crucial interactions. I also serve as a sounding board, asking questions that help clients reflect on their experience.

COACHING TOOLKIT:
A3 Leaderhip Inventory
Ambiguity Architect
Benchmarks
CPI
Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
Global Competencies Inventory
Global Mindset Inventory
Global Personality Inventory
Hogan Leadership Forecast Series
Innovation Horizons 360
KAI (Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory)
KEYS to Creativity
MBTI
The PROFILOR

SAMPLE PAST & PRESENT COACHING CLIENTS:
Agilent Technologies
Air Products and Chemicals
Allergan
Anheuser-Busch
BlackRock
BMW
Brown-Forman
Cargill
Citicorp
Diageo
Eaton
Ford Motor
Gap
General Motors
Hewlett-Packard
Hill's Pet Nutrition
JohnsonDiversey
JP Morgan Chase
Microsoft
Pharmacia Upjohn
PRTM
Spansion
Sun Microsystems

CLIENT COMMENTS:
"Katherine was able to analyze my leadership style and guide me to my own self discovery about what was effective and more importantly, what was leading to less than optimal results. Her approach was individualized and focused on achieving tangible changes that produced measurable impact. Several years later I am still referring to the notes from my sessions with Katherine and still growing as a result of my self-insight from her coaching support. It is indeed rare when one can gain a self-sustaining focus on leadership growth and maturity from working with someone for a relatively short time."
President, pharmaceuticals firm

"Katherine establishes an easy, comfortable rapport, and then creates a conversation that ever-so-subtly leads to self discovery. It's an amazing phenomenon. Each of my managers and I created our own improvement plans. I've never seen a better example of turning the theoretical concept of 'getting people to embrace the idea of improvement' into a practical reality."
Senior VP, computer services firm

"Katherine has valuable insights into the most effective ways of interacting with different people. Once I could visualize how my "one-size-fits-all" approach would be perceived by people with whom I interacted at work, I could identify what changes I needed to make in order to improve my relationships with each of them."
CFO, financial services firm

"Katherine is committed to digging deep with Executives in helping them attain break-away impacts in improved effectiveness. She helps you identify your passions and gifts and gain greater leverage from them for a more effective and rewarding experience."
Regional Director, computer firm

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