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| Kathryn C. Mayer
President KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. Ms. Mayer founded KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. in 2003 to provide sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies to drive their efforts to attract, develop and retain emerging and high potential business leaders. KC Mayer Consulting works with clients in the United States and Europe in competitive industries ranging from investment banking to pharmaceutical, with a special emphasis on women in the workplace and diversity issues. KC Mayer clients include Credit Suisse, Citigroup Europe, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Symbol Technologies, Glaxo Smith Kline, Henry Schein, United Entertainment Media, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Selective Insurance, among others. Ms. Mayer has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals, guiding companies through transformative change, and designing learning systems to transition professionals into new roles, develop leaders, enhance team dynamics, strengthen core competencies, and change behavior. She began her business career in the highly demanding and competitive investment banking and business consulting industries where she honed her unique approach to leadership and developed a proprietary strategic leadership model called Collaborative Competition.™ This model is founded on the principle that competition is first and foremost an opportunity to learn, evolve and excel—and it can be an enjoyable experience. Collaborative Competition™ engages individuals in competition as a collaborative experience that fosters growth and advancement as well as teamwork and company loyalty. The Collaborative Competition™ mindset shows individuals how to leverage their competitive advantage. As a consequence, they find their personal styles, become strategic thinkers who are proactive rather than reactive, increase their visibility, articulate their ideas and goals more clearly, and are better informed of company strategy and goals. They are more actively involved and continually challenge themselves by taking smart risks, pursuing goals with grace and enthusiasm, and building a network of resources and supporters. The big win, of course, is for companies, which begin to see a positive shift in their corporate cultures as employees begin to change behavior, shift outlooks to the bigger picture, gain confidence and develop their personal styles. The cumulative impact on companies’ morale and improved culture is exponentially compelling. Ms. Mayer’s passion for competition dates back to her career as a ranked junior tennis player. She was a top ranked amateur tennis player for 25 years. This is where Ms. Mayer first discovered the power of learning from your competition rather than fearing it. She has recently completed a book on how women can succeed in the most competitive industries and enjoy it, Grand Slam Power: How Women Can Learn to Love Competition at Work. Kathryn has interviewed successful and powerful women around the country. She holds certifications in Myers Briggs, Covey’s Seven Habits, FIRO-B, Personal Profile System, Political Savvy, The Center for Creative Leadership’s Benchmark Instrument, The Actors Institute Coaching Program, the Birkman Instrument, and Citigroup’s 360-degree feedback instrument. She received a BA in Sociology with Phi Beta Kappa honors from St. Lawrence University and earned an MS in Counseling Psychology from SUNY at Albany. She has taken courses in the Workplace Learning Institute at Columbia University and seminars in Executive Coaching and Advanced Executive Coaching at New York University. |
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