Kate Sweetman - U.S.A.

“Effective corporate change occurs when organizations remember that the attitudes, beliefs, assumptions and behaviors that made them winners yesterday may or may not make them successful in the future – and then act on that knowledge.”

Areas of Expertise
Kate is a Consulting Partner with The RBL Group.  As a professional facilitator, consultant and writer, she architects, develops, and delivers educational interventions that help executives and senior managers adopt fresh approaches to business, process, and people. 

Her specialty is crafting customized cases around issues of leadership, strategy, organizational development, and implementation that help organizations look at themselves, what they do well, and what they need to improve.  She has written hundreds of cases, scenarios, vignettes, role plays, scripts and other creative materials designed to open up essential discussions around strategy, leadership, and organizational behaviors. 

Over the years, her clients have included Citigroup, Novartis, Verizon, Goldman, Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers-Squibb, British Petroleum Exploration, International Distillers and Vintners, AstraZeneca.

Background
Kate is a founding partner of Sweetman Consulting, LLC, an education and organizational development firm based in Milton, MA.  In addition to her career in executive and management education, she has worked in publishing and academics.  While an editor at Harvard Business Review, she acquired and edited articles by top business executives, academics, and consultants in the U.S. and abroad on the topics of creativity, organizational change, organizational design, psychology, teamwork and social enterprise.  She was also as Research Associate at Harvard Business School, and later taught the Management Communications course there. 

Kate has a BA in English from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.