Kate Isaacs
Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, FACULTY & Executive Fellow, Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance
Dr. Kate Isaacs is a scholar, teacher, and strategy advisor who designs organizations and stakeholder partnerships for people and places to thrive. She loves to design learning experiences for people to bring their whole selves and realize their potential as high performing leaders. She blends conceptual learning, reflection, introspection, peer coaching, body-centered practices, and ritual. Participants in her programs learn to create conditions for collective intelligence, agile performance, and transformative change.
Kate is a certified Shadow Work coach and is trained in Internal Family Systems therapy. She is an Executive Fellow at the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she teaches courses on Discovering Your Leadership Signature, Distributed Leadership: Cultivating Nimble Organizations, and Businesses for Inclusive Local Thriving Lab (BILT-Lab).
Kate holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies, with a concentration in social psychology from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.S. degree in Technology and Policy from the MIT Engineering Systems Division, an M.S. degree in Conscious Evolution from the Graduate Institute, and a B.S. in Biology from the Oakland University Honors College.
She lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her family, and loves running, biking, painting, yoga, skiing, gardening, tending chickens, adventures with her kids, and repairing stuff around the house. She discovered in midlife that much to her surprise she is a painter and a cellist. She occasionally commutes to Colorado in the winter, where she finds no greater joy than telemark skiing in fresh Rocky Mountain powder.