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KC Mayer Consulting provides sophisticated, customized leadership development solutions.
We partner with your organization's leadership and key human resource professionals to identify necessary systemic changes to create a collaborative environment that inspires and sustains growth.
Through customized training for groups and coaching programs for individuals, employees find their strengths and personal styles. They learn how to manage both for the long-term and day-to-day perceptions. They become proactive thinkers who are better informed of a company's strategy and goals.
The cumulative impact on the company's morale and improved culture is exponentially compelling.
KC Mayer Consulting provides sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies.
Kathryn Mayer, Founder and President , has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals and guiding companies through transformative change, using her trademarked approach, Collaborative Competition.
Known for her special expertise in leadership development, team-building, women in the workplace, and diversity issues, Kathryn helps drive corporate efforts to develop and retain emerging and high-potential business leaders and create an engaging and inclusive work environment.
She designs customized learning systems that are effective, relevant, and strategically aligned with clients’ cultures.
Kathryn’s expertise—delivered in-person or remote—enhance team dynamics, strengthen core competencies, and change behavior.
Kathryn honed her unique approach to leadership in the highly-demanding and competitive industries of investment banking (Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup) and business consulting (Deloitte & Touche).
These experiences led to the development of her Collaborative Competition strategic leadership model. Kathryn’s first book, Collaborative Competition™: A Woman’s Guide to Succeeding by Competing, shares insights gained from her own years in the corporate world. She also interviewed 40 women at the top of fields of medicine, politics, professional sports, marketing, and investment banking and shares their secrets to success.
Kathryn’s worldwide practice spans the United States, Europe, and Asia.
She trains and coaches groups and individuals in highly competitive industries such as financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, engineering, technology, microfinance, and professional services.
Some of her recent clients include: Verizon, Glaxo Smith Kline, Smith College, Society for Women Engineers, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Prudential, KPMG, Selective Insurance, UBS, and Women Unlimited.
Kathryn earned the Professional Certified Coach Certification (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Newfield Certified Coach Training Program. Her certifications include:
Myers Briggs
Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, and MVPI)
FIRO-B
Personal Profile System
Political Savvy
Voices® 360-degree instrument
The Center for Creative Leadership’s Benchmark Instrument
The Actors Institute Coaching Program
The Birkman Instrument
Citigroup’s 360-degree feedback instrument
Kathryn Mayer, Founder and President of KC Mayer Consulting, Inc, addresses attendees at workshop.
Kathryn’s passion for competition dates to her twenty-five-year career as a top-ranked amateur tennis player. She discovered the power of learning from your competition rather than fearing it.
Kathryn uses the Olympic model of competition to help clients maximize the value of their greatest asset—human capital—by coaching team members to reach their full potential.
Collaborative Competition offers a road map for a new way to use competition as a tool for powerful personal growth, career success, and team building.
During the global pandemic, Kathryn published an eBook, How to Stay SANE and Successful in the COVID World: Thrive, Flourish, and Prosper Even When All the Rules have Changed.
She is currently working on a new book and virtual coaching program: The Productive Perfectionist – A Woman’s Guide to Smashing the Shackles of Perfectionism.
Kathryn earned a BA in Sociology with Phi Beta Kappa honors from St. Lawrence University and MS in Counseling Psychology from SUNY at Albany.
She recently received the Sol Feinstone Award for Humanitarian Service from St. Lawrence University for her work with Women’s World Banking.
Kathryn Mayer has been recognized by the Coach Foundation as one of the premier Leadership Coaches in the industry.
Stony Brook LIVE Webinar.
Many of us have had moments of utter burnout over the last year. Women—particularly women in STEM—have been disproportionately affected when it comes to maintaining a career. Stony Brook University's School of Professional Development hosted a free webinar to discuss the unique experiences of women during this time. Kathryn shares her tactics to help bring you out of the pandemic stronger.
Watch & Learn.
For women looking to advance their careers, sobering realities need to be considered and addressed. Despite years of advances in both legal and corporate policy, many qualified women don't get the jobs they want. Misperceptions, stereotypes, and misplaced emotions (by those of any gender) can still sabotage a woman's career hopes—unless she takes a more strategic approach to her career.
