Kathryn Wankel

Kathryn offers over 27 years of sophisticated leadership development and executive coaching expertise in both the private and public sectors. She has coached hundreds of Executives, Leaders, and Physician Chairs in 19 countries, on 5 continents, in all industries over her career as both an internal and external coach and OD consultant.

As an internal talent development consultant and HR leader within two major, New York-based, financial institutions, she grew and developed the leadership pipeline— pioneering efforts to use 360 feedback and a variety of state-of-the-art assessments to add rigor to the processes used to deepen leadership. She worked as a consultant to build teams, strategic agility, coaching capacity, depth and bench strength—and ultimately the organizations.

As an external executive coach, she has had the pleasure of working within all industries including: Healthcare, Financial Services, Transportation, Entertainment, Professional Services, Pharma, Engineering, Technology, Government, and mostly large academic medical systems. She thrives on helping global leaders and Physicians make smooth transitions in, up and around organizations. She gets it and gets to the essence of business needs and challenges to bring out the best in others.

Over her coaching and development career, she served on the board of directors of many New York based professional associations—all with the common passion for coaching and growing talented leaders. Educated at Columbia U where she served on their alumni board—she also offers her varied degrees/certifications and requisite experience in Coaching Psychology, Image Consulting, Social Work, OD, Labor Relations, and the most up-to-date executive assessment instruments to add rigor to development plans and action items. She has served as a leadership coach with Bluepoint for ten plus years helping leaders to show up Leader As Coach and to gain insight and perspective into their styles and leadership competencies as they try on new behaviors.

Change in behavior and outcomes are clear, focused, and aligned with organizational goals when Kathryn is on the coaching team. She uses her listening, executive presence, humor, integrity, and noble intentions as she strives to help other’s influence, impact and results. She helps others connect, communicate, and collaborate.