| Kate Cowie |
 Kate Cowie is an independent organisation consultant with more than 20 years of experience in organisation development, managing change, team development, leadership development, executive coaching, and human resource management. She has worked with leaders at all levels in business, government and not-for-profit organisations helping them to develop and execute strategy, create stronger teams, grow internal talent, and develop themselves as leaders. She has also been an internal Organisation Development Manager for the oil and gas company, Royal Dutch Shell, with whom she spent her corporate career of 15 years working in complex, multi-cultural and multi-national environments in various locations in the UK and overseas. Kate has helped organisations conduct strategic planning exercises including large group conferences using whole system participative techniques to build alignment amongst individuals responsible for implementing organisation-wide change. She has used collaborative processes to facilitate transition amongst those directly affected by change. She has enabled many teams to explore how their members are working together in order to support the more effective achievement of tasks. She has served as an executive coach to senior leaders in a number of national and multi-national organisations, helping them to develop their leadership. She also teaches on The NTL Institute’s coach development and leadership development programmes. Clients include Royal Dutch Shell, Castle Cement, The Moray Council and SWIFT Inc. Kate is founder and director of The Chaos Game, and she is currently co-writing a book called ‘Finding Merlin’, for people in organisations who are committed to their ongoing personal development. She is a member of the Washington-based NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science, a graduate of Bristol University and the Bristol Business School, and a Chartered Member of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Kate is married with two sons, and lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. |