Meet Katie
Dr. Katie Best is a leadership coach, consultant and facilitator. She works with individual leaders and leadership teams to develop their skills, improve their performance and help them to tackle complex challenges.
Background
Katie started her career as an academic, completing a PhD at King's College London. She then moved to BPP University as MBA Director, where she helped to create an award-winning specialist MBA, focused on the legal services sector. In 2012, she transferred to LSE where she was given the unique role of Foundation for Management Education Fellow, and tasked with improving the relationships between academia and business within the Department of Management. Throughout this time, she was coaching leaders and facilitating team workshops.
When Katie had her daughter in the mid-2010s, she began her own leadership development business, which today is called KatieBest Associates. Through this, she delivers leadership coaching, and designs and delivers leadership development programmes for organisations. She has worked with a wide range of sectors, including legal services, accountancy, health, government, fintech, tech, and the cultural and creative sectors.
Currently
Katie is still affiliated to LSE, as a Visiting Fellow, and to King's College London Business School as a Visiting Research Fellow. She loves these roles, as they give her the opportunity to work with exceptional colleagues and students, and to provide coaching and facilitation for their executive education programmes. She is also Head Tutor on LSE's flagship online certificate programme, MBA Essentials.
Katie enjoys helping leaders to solve their challenges, and this led her to start her fortnightly mail-out, Dear Katie, in which she helps readers to solve their real problems.
She has also just finished writing a book on the same topic, called 'The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems and How to SOLVE Them', which was published by Hachette in Fall 2025.
Get in Touch
If you'd like to hear more about the work Katie does, or explore mutual interests, or you think there is a way she could be of help with the leadership problems that you or your organisation are facing, please reach out to her at katie@katiebest.com – she would love to hear from you!
