Kathy Spitz

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About Kathy Spitz

Kathy's global practice spans the full range of organizational work: teamwork, leadership, change, organization design, strategy alignment, training, facilitation and coaching. She specializes in consulting to organizations working toward increased effectiveness, and has supported executives and all kinds of teams in a range of multinational and domestic organizations. Kathy designs and delivers in ways that dramatically impact performance and engagement. Her collaborative style helps people in changing environments move forward, make decisions and implement. In over two decades of consulting, Kathy has worked in aerospace, financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, local and federal government, health insurance, technology and higher education. Previously, Kathy worked for GlaxoSmithKline and GlaxoWellcome in the pharmaceutical industry and Eastman Kodak in the manufacturing world. Kathy’s direct experience with these large, global companies honed her skills with culture change, downsizing/restructuring and post-merger integration. Kathy is co-creator of two workshops:"Transition Agility for Leaders" and "Transition Agility for Individuals", focused on skill development for people experiencing ongoing and/or major change. In addition to her own practice Kathy is affiliated with PeopleUntapped, Villiger McNeill Consulting, The ClearLakeGroup and Duke Corporate Education's Global Learning Resource Network. Kathy holds an MS in Organization Development from American University/NTL. She is certified in MBTI, CCL Benchmarks, the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model, the Connor change management approach and is Six Sigma Green Belt certified. Kathy is also skilled with large group process methods such as Future Search and Open Space. Her coaching training is from NTL and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Kathy has consulted in the US, UK, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore and Canada.