Kate Utzschneider

Kate is an instructor for resilient leadership, resilience in the workplace, and leadership development and facilitates interactive workshops and seminars that allow professionals to apply evidence-based knowledge to their personal and professional lives.

As a Head of Knowledge and Technology Transfer at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research in Germany, she leads teams and projects to convey scientific findings on resilience to the public and helps organizations develop health programs that foster resilience as part of their organizational and people development.

In her private practice as a psychological business consultant, she helps people to become the leaders they want to be, so they can make the impacts they believe in. Her previous experience as a manager at a Fortune 500 company allows her to draw tools from interdisciplinary backgrounds.

With graduate business degrees from Germany and the U.K., Kate continues her education and is researching the effectiveness of resilience interventions to complete her master’s degree in psychology from Harvard in 2024.

Kate has traveled to 60 countries, lived and worked on four continents, participated in 10-day silent meditation retreats twice, and has sailed across two oceans.