Katie Isbister
Katie is a business leader with over twenty five years experience in leadership, consulting and coaching in mid to large size public and private sector organizations. Katie gets first- hand the demands of high performance work environments. Katie’s coaching style is deeply collaborative and she has a genuinely warm, calm, direct and encouraging presence. She develops relationships in which people feel seen, heard and understood and within which they can take the risks so required to live up to their “head and heart” potential.
Katie works with leaders and teams to bring out the best in themselves and their people. She specializes in challenging leaders to leverage their strengths while at the same time ensuring that they are supported in “digging deep” to identify and address internal and external barriers to development.
Katie’s education includes a Masters Degree in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University as well as an Honours B.A. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. She is registered with the International Coaching Federation and designated a Certified Executive Coach (C.E.C.) by Royal Roads University. Katie was the Enterprise Director of the Employee Assistance Program and Employee Engagement Initiatives at the Bank of Montreal for 10 years. She received the highest “Employee Engagement” results two years in a row in the Bank’s Employee Survey, received the Bank’s “Integrity Award” and graduated top of her cohort in the Bank’s Business Analytics Program.
