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Kathy Gagne
Executive Leadership Advisor specializing in organizational design, culture transformation, and board coaching
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Operations and organizational effectiveness advisor who builds scalable playbooks and maturity-based operating frameworks for growing organizations, including investment portfolio companies. Has led change and regulatory adoption work in a large financial institution and coached a rapidly scaling fintech founder/exec team to improve trust, delegation, and decision-making.
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Key Strengths
- Built scalable HR/people-ops playbooks for portfolio companies with self-assessment and maturity staging
- Diagnoses operational issues through multi-stakeholder/user input rather than leader-only perspective
- Leads collaborative solution design to increase buy-in and implementation success
- Successfully drove adoption of government regulatory requirements within a large financial institution amid resistance
- Coached a fintech founder through delegation and trust-building to remove founder bottlenecks and empower leadership team
- Balances strategic advising with hands-on execution support (shadowing leaders, ghostwriting, drafting communications)
Reference Highlights
- excellent at assessing and improving organizational systems/processes
- thoughtful
- knowledgeable
- good listener
- supportive
- empathetic
- helped structure business functions
- effective mentor
- streamlined processes
- restructured architecture discipline
- reduced staff by 30%
- helped think through tactics during a political struggle
- would be a good addition to any organization
- zone of genius in organizational systems and processes
- detail-oriented and thorough
- expertise in internal and client-facing operations
- identified scaling gaps proactively
- built streamlined operations framework
- rebuilt intake/contract/recruiting systems from the ground up
- reduced proposal and onboarding turnaround time by 40%
- intentional, tailored approach to client targeting and networking
- strong listener
- effective mentor/advisor to senior leaders
- thoughtful discovery approach
- asset to fast-growing startup teams
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