Kathleen McInerney Kane, Senior Consultant, Liberty Business Strategies

Expertise

Kathleen McInerney Kane is an accomplished organization development consultant and executive coach, who brings to every engagement a keen focus on the core business and mission of her clients. Kathleen’s broad exposure to organizational life enables her to see desired outcomes clearly and to support her clients in achieving them. Kathleen is particularly effective in creating strategic advantage through the development of leaders. A skilled facilitator and process consultant, Kathleen also has deep experience designing and delivering innovative training programs that build capacity to drive superior results.

Clients

Over the past five years, Kathleen has partnered with a diverse range of client organizations operating in a wide variety of industries, including: Aon Consulting, Bucks First Federal Credit Union, Deloitte Consulting, DRS Industries, Edwards and Kelcey, LLP, Girls Scouts of Northern New Jersey, Heumannly Capable, Seton Hall University, and Turner Broadcasting Systems.

Representative Engagements

• Advanced Business Leadership Development (ABLE): A highly successful $175MM engineering and transportation planning company, recognized for its technical excellence and engineering prowess, understood that in order to stay competitive in a changing market, it needed to develop leadership capacity from within. Kathleen worked with the CEO and other key leaders to develop an annual, four-session leadership development program for 20 “high potentials” to further their business acumen and develop a leadership pipeline. The ABLE program became a centerpiece of organizational life within this firm. In its five years of existence, it attracted the best and brightest engineers, many of whom went on to become regional and line-of-business managers, as well as shareholders. In addition to co-designing and facilitating the sessions, Kathleen served as executive coach and facilitator to the group projects.
• Agile and Innovative Response to Change: The Knowledge Management division of a Big 5 management consulting firm needed to quickly restructure and align itself to support unprecedented growth at the height of the ERP wave. Kathleen worked with the partners and their staffs to design an organizational structure which was conducive to responding quickly and coherently to requests for thought leadership and tools, thus giving the firm a decided strategic advantage in a highly competitive market. Kathleen also designed and delivered a series of training experiences for the staff to sustain the organizational learning and create a common language relative to leadership in the organization. One of the outcomes of this initiative was that the lead partners of the Knowledge Management division earned the respect and confidence of their line colleagues and became integral partners in developing business and setting strategy in the firm.
• Executive Coaching: Kathleen served as executive coach for the CEO and senior management team of a member-owned financial cooperative. Kathleen created a strong coaching partnership with her clients through thoughtful and illuminating questioning; unwavering focus on core issues; actively listening to navigate the inherent complexities of their roles; and articulating observations and insights directly, eloquently, and without judgment. As a result, the individuals improved their understanding of their strengths relative to aligning their respective roles with the needs of the organization, to prepare for the successful expansion of their charter.

Professional Background

Kathleen joined Liberty Business Strategies after successfully managing her own firm for five years. Prior to founding her own firm, Kathleen was the Global Director of Project Based Learning for Deloitte & Touché. Kathleen led a division of learning focused on the development and deployment of an extensive curriculum that supported the professional development of 20,000 management consultants on a global basis. Kathleen was also a trusted advisor to the partners of Deloitte on issues related to leadership development, succession planning, and organization development. An innovator in helping teams deliver outstanding results, Kathleen and her team provided strategic support and coaching to virtually every strategic client team at Deloitte. Earlier in her career, Kathleen was a line consultant and project manager for large, enterprise-wide software implementation projects at Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt Worldwide.

Education and Training

Kathleen is proficient in the use of a wide variety of many tools in her work with leaders, including Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional Intelligence Framework, and DISC Personal Profile systems.

Kathleen holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Denver.

Professional Affiliations

Philadelphia Regional Organization Development Network, 2002 to present
International Association of Coaching, 2006 to present
International Association of Facilitators, 2004 to present

Kathleen Kane can be reached at:
Office Phone:  (610)-649-3800
kathleenkane@libertystrategies.com