Kathryn is a values-driven and psychologically informed systems leader on a mission to understand how transformation happens in our complex, interconnected world. Through a career spanning philanthropy, government, corporate, and NGOs, she brings more than 20 years of experience in building complex partnerships across multiple sectors.

At the LEGO Foundation, Kathryn led global advocacy and policy development, alongside delivering a multi-million-dollar funding portfolio. She is skilled at supporting partners to analyse system dynamics and incorporate psychological frameworks into their programming to increase impact and improve learning and measurement. Her deep knowledge of the realities of corporate and philanthropic engagement means she understands the potential of transformational partnerships, and she has been called on to provide strategic advice to boards, CEOs and individual philanthropists.

Kathryn was formerly Director of Policy and Communications at the British Psychological Society and worked in a local government public health team. These experiences shaped her central approach to transformation, which is that systems are made up of fallible, complex humans, and that seeking to understand those humans is the best way to understand and shape systems.

At the beginning of her career, Kathryn worked at Save the Children UK, where she supported the delivery of humanitarian programmes and health policy development, thus bringing practical experience as well as the application of theoretical frameworks.

Originally trained as a journalist, she enjoys strategic communications,  policy analysis and narrative development work, particularly if it has a future focus. She is committed to network building and delivering bold systemic change.