Katherine has extensive strategic and operational experience in several industries as well as within the public sector, in HR, OD and management development and change management skills at Director level. She also has broad experience in business continuity/crisis management training and planning. Her maritime background includes 15 years as an RN and RNR officer, and operational HR experience in the ferry industry.
For 12 years, she operated a successful consultancy as a business psychologist specialising in business performance coaching, management development, team-building, facilitation and organisational analysis. She joined Warsash in March 09 as a Senior Lecturer, focusing on leadership and maritime resource management, and is involved in a range of research and consultancy activities.
She is also an associate with a risk and crisis management consultancy, authoring and exercising disaster plans, carrying out training, and observing and reporting on the psychodynamics of strategic management groups operating in crisis situations.
Katherine holds a BA (Joint Hons) in Law and Politics from the University of Keele, an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Portsmouth for her research on effective strategic leadership of multi-agency major incidents. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PGCTLHE) from Southampton Solent University.
She is a certificated NLP practitioner, is qualified in psychometrics to British Psychological Society level B (including OPQ, Firo-B, MBTI, Neo and LJI)and has a diploma in Business Performance Coaching and a Certificate in Counselling.