Overview
Over the past twenty years, Katie has designed and facilitated workshops for leaders and their teams, working with organizations ranging from law firms to tech start-ups to charities and marketing agencies to help them learn how to tackle their biggest challenges, improve team collaboration, and enhance leadership performance. She delivers workshops at all levels, from emerging management teams to groups of seasoned executives. Her work is always bespoke, tailored to address the specific needs of the organization and team.
When Katie runs workshops, she focuses on creating engaging, practical, and thought-provoking experiences that empower leaders and teams to find solutions, embrace opportunities, and develop the skills they need to thrive. Whether it's helping a team clarify their strategy, improve their communication, establish their charter or navigate a period of change, her workshops equip participants with actionable tools and insights.
Achievements
Some recent workshop successes that Katie is particularly proud of include:
Strategic alignment for a consultancy practice: Facilitating a workshop for the leadership team of a boutique consultancy, helping them to align on their strategic goals and define actionable next steps.
Cultural transformation in an architecture practice: Running a series of workshops with team leaders to create and embed a new set of organizational values and behaviours, resulting in measurable improvements in winning clients, employee collaboration and team motivation.
Leadership development in a law firm: Delivering annual workshops for lawyers who have been promoted to partner, focused on the firm's leadership values and advanced delegation and engagement skills. By working with this firm for the past decade, Katie has been able to develop a common and well-regarded leadership language shared between the partners and filtered down through the firm.
Transforming leadership in an education organization: Led a series of workshops for a group of senior leaders in a further education college, enabling them to adopt a more commercial mindset and approach students as customers.
Approach
Katie's workshops are designed to be dynamic, engaging, and outcome-oriented. She blends evidence-based leadership principles with practical applications, tailoring each session to the specific needs of the group. By combining structured activities, open discussions, and reflection, she creates an environment where participants feel supported to explore challenges and embrace new ways of thinking.
Katie ensures that workshops aren't just a one-off event—they're the start of meaningful change. Each session includes actionable insights and tools participants can take back to their teams or roles immediately. She also creates follow-up activities and reminders to embed the learning in the participants' daily work and to help them to develop positive new habits.
Get in Touch
To find out how Katie can design a workshop to meet your needs, email her at katie@katiebest.com. She'd love to help your team achieve its goals!
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