Kate Van Akin
Facilitator
Kate is an experienced leadership coach, facilitator, and change architect with over 20 years of experience working across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. Her unique approach bridges deep personal transformation work with pragmatic business experience, creating powerful leadership development experiences that drive both individual growth and organizational results.
From her 10 years with McKinsey & Company as a Senior Expert in Change and Communication, Kate brings a strategic, results-oriented perspective to her work with leaders. At McKinsey, she worked with senior executives on enterprise-wide change strategies, led research on transformation success factors, and developed deep expertise in what actually drives successful organizational change across industries and transformation archetypes.
Kate's distinctive strength lies in seamlessly integrating this rigorous business background with profound personal development practices. In her coaching work, she combines strategic leadership assessments and development planning with transformational inner work—incorporating systemic work, energetic work, and parts work with more traditional coaching approaches . This unique synthesis enables leaders to access both their analytical capabilities and their deeper sources of wisdom, creating sustainable change that serves both business objectives and personal fulfillment.
Kate currently lives in London; previously, she lived in Dubai for ten years. She is an avid writer and loves expanding her understanding of people and culture through travel.
Areas of Speciality
- Coaching executives through career and life transitions
- Building transformational leadership capabilities
- Leading enterprise-wide change strategies
- Engaging and facilitating leadership teams