Kathryn C. Mayer, PCC, Play Your Biggest and Best Game
Kathryn Mayer has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals to play a bigger game and guiding companies through transformative change, using her trademarked approach, Collaborative Competition.
Known for her special expertise in leadership development, team-building, and women in the workplace, 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—strengthen core competencies, expand awareness of blind spots, enhance team dynamics, and result in expanded choices and sustainable behavior change.
Kathryn’s perspective on leadership is shaped by her experiences as both a former top-ranked amateur tennis player and coach and a Human Resource executive who led change and developed talent in highly-demanding 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 struggles with competition and from those she trained. 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. She has published two additional books: How to Stay Sane and Successful in the Covid World in 2020 and The Productive Perfectionist: A Woman’s Guide to Smashing the Shackles of Perfectionism in the fall of 2024.
Kathryn’s worldwide practice spans the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia and Southeast 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 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
- ICF Certification PCC - Professional Certified Coach
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