Kate is a leader in the role of business in society. She brings more than 20 years of experience partnering with business, civil society, and government leaders on how to address social inequities—in the workplace, in the value chain, and in wider society.
Kate has extensive experience in sustainability strategy and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboratives. Previously, she built and led Save the Children’s Global Business & Innovation Hub, a 20-person team responsible for designing, delivering, and evaluating Save the Children’s business and philanthropy partnerships across its 120 countries of operation. Prior to her work with Save the Children, she spent a decade at FSG, a strategy consulting firm founded by Harvard Professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, where she co-led the firm’s corporate practice and worked with a range of companies and their partners to develop strategies to address social issues material to business performance including gender equity, workforce development, and economic inclusion.
She writes frequently on the relationship between business and society, including collaborating with the WBCSD on its flagship report “Tackling Inequality: An Agenda for Business Action”; with Unilever on its first equity, diversity, and inclusion paper “Equity for Impact”; and with FSG on “Centering Equity in Corporate Purpose,” “What Does It Really Take for Companies to Advance Gender Equity?” and “The Role of Business in Global Education.” She holds an MBA in International Business from Georgetown University.