Meet Our Founder Kate
At Human by Design, Kate partners with ambitious founders, senior executives and leadership teams to elevate how they operate, developing the clarity, capacity and composure required to lead at scale.
With over 15 years of experience across technology, corporate, and high-growth environments, she brings a distinctive blend of strategic direction and behavioural precision to every engagement.
Kate translates strategic vision into operational leverage, strengthening leadership capability, sharpening decision cadence, and enabling sustained performance at scale.
Neurolinguistics Practitioner Certification | The Enneagram Certification | diploma of Counselling | 15 years experience Tech, corporate & high growth environments
THE BLEND IN LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
After working with founders and executive teams across fast-growing organisations for over 15 years, one pattern is clear: strategy doesn’t stall progress; leadership capacity, alignment, and operating rhythm do. These are the core pillars we strengthen to enable performance at scale.
RESILIENCE
The capacity to maintain clarity, judgement and pace under pressure. Resilience is not a force; it is sustaining decision quality when the stakes rise and complexity increases.
LEADERSHIP
The ability to create clarity, alignment, and momentum. Leadership is not directing every decision; it is establishing the conditions and cadence for others to perform at their highest level.
GROWTH
Growth becomes durable when structure, operating behaviour and strategy reinforce one another. We build the rhythms, leadership capacity and ownership required to scale without losing speed, trust or commercial performance.
How Kate works with Leaders
High-performing organisations are led by executives who make clean decisions, allocate energy intentionally and execute at pace. Kate integrates strategic direction with behavioural precision to elevate decision-making quality, leadership influence and team performance.
Kate partners with founders and senior leaders to upgrade leadership operating systems, embedding clarity, accountability and operational leverage across the organisation. This enables scalable leadership and execution that consistently delivers.
OUTCOMES OF THE FRAMEWORK
When leadership capacity deepens, performance compounds. Teams make cleaner decisions, execution accelerates, and growth becomes sustainable. These outcomes consistently show up across the organisations we partner with.
HIGH-PERFORMING LEADERSHIP
Leaders who operate with composure and commercial judgement when stakes rise, volatility increases or pace intensifies.
STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING
Decisions made cleanly and confidently, without hesitation or reactivity, even in uncertainty or ambiguity.
TEAM-LED OWNERSHIP
Accountability moves from the founder or executive into capable leaders who own delivery and drive results.
EXECUTIVE & FOUNDER DEVELOPMENT
Support leaders through key transitions, scaling, exiting, or redefining their role.
OPERATIONAL LEVERAGE
Systems, rhythm and operating structure that reduce dependency, improve execution and make performance repeatable.
SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE
Growth that remains steady and scalable, enabled by structure, ownership and disciplined leadership.
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ADVISORY DECK
Explore how Kate partners with organisations to elevate performance, expand leadership capacity, and strengthen execution across senior teams.
Inside, you’ll find a clear overview of Kate’s focus areas, advisory work, and the frameworks used to transition organisations from operational leadership to strategic performance at scale.
Download to learn how Human by Design supports organisations to accelerate execution, grow leadership capability, and operate at the next stage of scale.
WORK WITH KATE
Kate partners with ambitious founders and senior executives to elevate leadership, expand capacity, and sustain performance through scale.
“Kate is a strategic partner. Her clarity, discipline and commercial judgement sharpened how I lead and accelerated outcomes. Highly recommend.”
Sarah | Co-Founder, Premium Consumer Brand
