Kathryn (Kathy) Burkgren, Ph.D., PCC
Dr. Kathryn Burkgren is a down-to-earth coach with a calm yet impactful style. Her 30 years of leadership and strategic consultation and executive coaching at Cornell University and world-wide coaching executives, academic administrators, people leaders/middle managers, and individual contributors led her to found Placid Coaching, LLC. She works with leaders to help them better understand themselves, their behaviors, and what is important to them so they can best lead, shape strategy, and make decisions to advance well-being and effectiveness for themselves and others. She has coached in Cisco, Amazon, Cornell University, grocery and convenience store industries, other universities, and more.
Using a solutions-based approach, she helps leaders discover who they want to be as a leader including their passion, purpose, possibilities, and through discovery and the use of instruments, works with them to identify one thing, that if they focus on it, will result in them being a more effective leader. This in combination with a focus on emotional intelligence, conscious leadership principles, way of being, and leadership presence helps leaders enhance their overall ability to lead in all areas of their lives.
As AVP Organizational Development and Effectiveness at Cornell University, she and her team consult, facilitate, educate, and coach in the areas of leadership and talent development, team development, performance, climate and engagement, university system changes, and organizational effectiveness across all of Cornell’s campuses.
In addition to serving on local and national boards as a member and Chair, Kathy is an Accredited International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC Coach, Certified Assenter Executive Coach, Core Practitioner of Presence-Based® Coaching, and Certified Team Coach. She holds a M.S./Ph.D. from Cornell University in educational psychology with an emphasis in organizational behavior and a B.S. Dual Degree—Ag Journalism (May, 1986) and Ag Education (May, 1985), Agricultural and Life Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.