Kate Katz is an organizational transformation consultant and speaker with over 18 years of experience working with clients in the US, UK, and Canada. Kate serves as the Lead for our Healthcare Change Management and Leadership capability. She specializes in working with organizations to create an environment of psychological safety, evolving their culture, team structures, and ways of working for the future. She has deep expertise in helping healthcare providers, educators, payors, and commissioners to assess their organizational strengths, identify areas for improvement, and support leaders through the transformation process. Her research areas include inter-organizational trust, and the interconnection of payment reform and care transformation.

Throughout her career, Kate’s focus has been on change and culture initiatives across the spectrum of healthcare operations. She serves as a trusted advisor to executive teams who want to improve their culture, designs new organizational structures, and processes, and leads change programs to improve access to high-quality clinical care for her clients. She has managed change and training programs encompassing more than 22,000 employees.

Prior to joining Huron, Kate led a multi-year change management program at HCSC, introducing a new claims operating model and organizational structure to a division of 7,000 people. Prior to this, Kate worked at the Center for Health Policy at The Brookings Institution, and before that spent nearly a decade as the Principal of her own boutique management consultancy in London.