Team Services

I help creative teams enable creativity, inspire engagement, implement strategic, practical operating models; and sharpen leadership skills. Drawing on decades of real world experience—and considered an early expert in the field of Creative Operations—I understand the unique challenges creative leaders and teams face in corporate environments.

Just announced!

Building a Team Culture of Imagination & Creativity:
Retreats & Workshops

Express interest here in the inaugural Bay Area retreat (date TBA), future in-person retreats, team-specific offsites, and/or to join a virtual cohort. Individuals, teams and companies thrive when people, culture and imagination are put first. Read the full announcement here.

Team Advising, Consulting & Workshops

Who you are: You lead a team probably being asked to do more with less and tasked with “efficiency” but attrition and near constant change makes true efficiency nearly impossible. You know there is room for improvement, but everyone is too spread thin to lead the charge. Outside support and perspective would help. You also know your team - made up of visionaries and artists - benefits from working with someone who deeply understands the creative process, offering lasting solutions often missed by traditional consultants and internal trainings. You also very likely put so much energy into your team that you neglect your own career needs along the way.

How I can help you:

  • Developing and implementing strategic, practical, people-first operating models;

  • Enhancing team engagement, collaboration and morale within and across teams;

  • Building and evolving high-functioning and adaptable in-house and hybrid teams;

  • Focusing on your leadership skills and personal career growth;

  • Being your confidential, strategic thought-partner who balances compassionate support with clear action.

What you’ll get out of it:

  • Invaluable outside perspective

  • Expedited change

  • Time back to focus on your day job

  • Enhanced leadership skills

  • A more efficient, inspired, creative and connected team

How we’ll work together:

  • 1:1 advising: focusing on your team leadership and/or personal career strategy

  • One-off engagements: full team and/or leadership workshops, off-sites, and talks

  • Shorter-term consulting: evaluation and set you up with a roadmap

  • Longer-term consulting: evaluation, a roadmap, and stay on to oversee/implement solutions

Speaker

  • How To Not Let Your Career Happen TO You (Women of InsideOut, Oct 2024)

    The Importance of Creative Side Projects (InsideOut; April 2023)

  • The F Words: A Conversation on Creative Ops Flops and Leadership Fails (Henry Stewart, Oct 2022)

  • Improve Your Collaborations Starting ... Now! (Henry Stewart, Oct 2021)

  • The Power of Role Clarity To Improve Efficiency & Foster Positive Collaborations (Henry Stewart, Nov 2019)

  • Conference Co-Chair | Creative Operations Exchange Seattle (IEN, July 2019)

  • Formal Career Development Plans and Well-Defined Roles Drive Efficiency and Employee Engagement (IEN, Sept 2018)

  • A Look Under the Hood — Organizational Structure of Large Enterprises and Mature Teams (IEN, April 2018)

  • Walk Us Through Your Workflow — the Creative Studio Environment (IEN, April 2018)

Select Speaking

Moderator & Panelist

  • Creative Production Day (Henry Stewart, May 2021)

  • Executive Roundtable: Creative Ops in the Spotlight—Elevated Status and Growing Importance (IEN, July 2019)

  • Executive Roundtable - Creative Operations as a Maturing Discipline (IEN, April 2019)

  • Org Structures for In-House Creative Teams (Henry Stewart, Nov 2018)

  • Need for Speed vs. Quality Control – a Creative Ops Dilemma (Henry Stewart, Nov 2018)

Interviewee

Testimonials

  • "Kate is uniquely expert at the merging of strategic insights, business data but also creativity. For a Creative organization to seek consultant help, it is hard to find someone with her experience and expertise. She brought out the best in our team and helped us identify blind spots. She is amazing."

    Shalya Love, Uber

  • “Witnessing Kate transform our creative operations from zero to hero in such a short period, while keeping people at the heart of that journey, truly accelerated and empowered our entire org to deliver massive impact.”

    Mark Brady, HubSpot

  • "Kate has a strategic operational mind for problem solving and an innate leadership ability that helped our team overcome several challenging transitions. She is supportive, intuitive, collaborative, highly organized, transparent, and extremely reliable."

    Jodi Baker, Pandora/SiriusXM