032 Transcending Work

“I want to live in a technologically advanced world that works in harmony with nature rather than against it. I’ve chosen to dedicate the rest of my life’s work facilitating its reality.” Katherine Ann Byam (MBA, FCCA) is a business resilience coach and strategic partner to leaders who are championing sustainable change for their businesses stakeholders. She collaborates with small and medium-sized businesses to address solutions that consider society and environmental resiliency at their core while preserving economic growth and a fair return for individual innovation and ingenuity. She also coaches leaders to connect with their purpose and design fulfilling career experiences in an evolving digital landscape. Her Virtual Service Hub supports the digitization of back-office operations for medium-sized manufacturing firms. This service allows these firms to introduce more lean systems while carving out time and funding to increase attention to sustainable innovation. With start-ups in scale-up, her services support the transition from agile to lean for parts of the business that have matured and can work more efficiently, freeing up funding for growth initiatives.  The hub is led by her partner Christophe Nicault, CTO and data scientist with a strong background in business process and systems integration. Career Sketching - a service tailored to the individual functional or line manager seeking growth, or opportunities to leverage their accumulated knowledge toward a new and greater purpose. As “the wing-woman to your genius”, Katherine supports ambitious leaders with personal systems and tools that assist them in becoming more effective, more balanced, and more consistent to boost performance for themselves and their teams. She also facilitates career transition coaching for mid-career executives seeking to pivot and redesign their careers and digital presence. Where Ideas Launch - is a podcast inspired by sustainable innovation, modelled in theme by the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development goals. She hosts prominent educators, practitioners and ambitious startups. The show is ranked in the top 10% globally.  Where Ideas Launch is also a training and digital business advisory service for sustainable brands and organisations. She works with a global digital community of 1.6K+ women creating eco-friendly businesses, and with the local chamber of commerce in Hampshire UK on supporting initiatives for green business growth. Katherine holds an MBA, specialising in innovation management from Grenoble France, and multiple certificates from Cambridge UK on sustainability and digital disruption. She trained in building resilient companies with Strategyzer Ag and has become proficient at digital marketing via the real-life MBA entrepreneurship for the last 2 years. Over her career, she worked on assignments in more than 30 countries, collaborating with people from over 150 nationalities. These experiences have given her practical insights, along with cross-disciplinary skill sets in risk and reputation management, governance, finance and supply chain developing her capabilities at putting solid strategies to work for you. She has successfully led people and teams in programmes within billion dollar transformation initiatives at a FTSE top 10 firm. Today she directly works with education, food technology, sustainable fashion and agriculture-based start-ups on their digital business strategies.  She is a polymath who advocates for diversity equity and inclusion in all things. Quote: “True success is resilience in practice” She is supported in business and life by her partner. In her free time, she writes as an outlet for her creativity, drawing inspiration from the south coast of the UK and the west coast of France. Get in touch with her by direct message on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram.