Kathleen McInerney Kane, Managing Director, Liberty Business Strategies

Expertise

Kathleen McInerney Kane is the Managing Director of Liberty Business Strategies, Ltd. Kathleen is an accomplished organization development consultant and executive coach, who brings keen focus on the core business and mission of her clients to every engagement. 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 in leaders and their organizations to drive superior results.

Clients

Over the past eight years, Kathleen has partnered with a diverse range of client organizations operating in a wide variety of industries, including: Aon Consulting, Astra Zeneca, Bayada Nurses, Bucks First Federal Credit Union, Deloitte Consulting, Edwards and Kelcey, LLP, Seton Hall University, Tunnell Consulting and Turner Broadcasting Systems.

Representative Engagements

• Developing Leaders for Growth and Sustainability: A leader in the home health care industry, with a highly entrepreneurial culture, sought to implement a standard operating model in its 140 offices across 18 U.S. cities and the UK. Kathleen and the Liberty team worked with the CEO, the Chief Learning Officer and the Chief Nursing Officer to design and implement a series of leadership development interventions. The desired outcome of these interventions was to build internal leadership capacity necessary for growth, and manage change while sustaining the cultural norms so essential to past success. Programmatic responses included Leading Change, Leader as Trainer, Giving and Receiving Actionable Feedback, Transition to Director and Leading a Culture of Growth. Kathleen and the Liberty team also worked closely with clinical leaders in developing themselves as leaders and clinicians to meet the challenges of unprecedented growth and complexity in the home health care industry. The outcomes of this ongoing leadership development initiative include significant savings in the implementation of the a new operating model, successful retention of critical staff in a period of deep change and a profound influence on the culture of the organization through creating common language and expectations for the leader population.
• 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 newly appointed CEO of a pharmaceutical professional services firm. Kathleen created a strong coaching partnership with her client through thoughtful and illuminating questioning; unwavering focus on the first 90 days of his tenure, actively listening to assist in navigating the complexities of his new role and articulating observations and insights directly, eloquently, and without judgment. As a result, this new CEO completed a highly successful transition into his role, validated by feedback from staff, his Executive Team and Board of Directors. Kathleen also influenced the shift to a more transparent and engaged leadership model throughout the organization, which assisted in the successful implementation of a contingency revenue plan during an unprecedented economic downturn.

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 & Touche. 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 internationally recognized innovator in the design and deployment of leadership development programs, Kathleen has worked in over 20 countries throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. 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 (now known as Towers Watson).

Education and Training

Kathleen is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® (MBTI) and is also proficient in the use of a wide variety of tools in her work with leaders, including Appreciative Inquiry, the 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: (215) 803 6505 (mobile phone)
Main Office: (610) 649 3800 (main office)
kathleenkane@libertystrategies.com