Kate Krasnokutska
Principal Consultant and Founder
Kate is an innovative and tech-savvy HR, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Org Effectiveness leader focused on scaling startups for explosive growth and positioning established organizations for agile sustainability. She has spent 17 years in large and small global companies, driving successful, measurable solutions around leadership development, culture, employee experience, engagement and retention, performance management, talent reviews and succession planning.
As the Head of Talent Management at Legend Biotech, Kate grew a 200-employee startup into a 2,000-strong, commercial, publicly traded $8B global biotech with standardized talent processes over 3.5 years. As the Professional Development lead at Bristol-Myers Squibb, she spearheaded development and coaching for General Managers in 39 countries. Throughout her career, she implemented multiple global HR and talent systems to drive operational efficiency and data-driven decision making.
Kate sees the big-picture strategy through to detailed-oriented program execution. She has supported almost all functional areas, from corporate functions to manufacturing operations. She extensively partnered with executive business leaders as well as line managers to enable change. Her highly adaptable interpersonal style enables her to work well across functional and cultural boundaries.
Kate holds an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and a Masters in Instructional Technology / Instructional Design from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (now Commonwealth University). She lives in the Garden State with her family and pet rescues, surrounded by preserved farmland.
More About Kate
Purpose: Kate is driven by the impact she makes – everything from enabling individual career journeys to solving business problems – and changing the perception of HR from being a cost center to being a strategic investment and a source of competitive advantage.
Leadership style: Kate's style is a combination of situational leadership and servant leadership. She is invested in her team's success, striving to provide the right amount of direction, coaching and development for each individual. She strongly believes that what we do in Talent Management needs to set the tone and role model how we expect every other leader and employee to operate across the rest of the organization.
Strengths: Kate sees organizations as ecosystems where everything is connected, where every strategy, every process, are a series of levers that can be adjusted to ultimately enable commercial success and a winning employee experience. Her superpower is seeing the connections between seemingly unrelated things, integrating them and predicting the downstream outcomes.
Industry Experience: 15 years in global biotech and pharmaceutical companies; 1 year in education services
Interpersonal styles:
MBTI: The Architect (INTJ-T)
Fascination Advantage: The Maverick Leader (primary advantage: Innovation)
Certifications:
SHRM-SCP
Hogan Assessments and Coaching (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
Organizational Design
Systems Thinking
Flawless Consulting