projects
Coaching * Facilitation * Consulting
Working with Students, Faculty, Teaching Artists & Civic Engagement Leaders
about
Kate Griffin is an ICF-certified leadership coach who works with emerging and established leaders and changemakers in higher education, arts and culture, public humanities, and civic engagement. She has additional somatic coach training from Strozzi Institute and arts and equity training from National Arts Strategies’ coaching collective.
Kate has worked extensively in the non-profit sector as an Executive Director, strategist, program designer, network-builder, and founder and has deep experience with leadership development, capacity-building, and changemaking processes. Across her career, she has worked in higher education, Indigenous rights, arts and culture, community services, and organizational development. She is currently the Associate Director of Bringing Theory to Practice (BT2P), a national think-and-do tank focused on higher education innovation. From 2018-2023, Kate co-led B2TP’s PLACE Collaboratory, a national community of practice for students, faculty, and community leaders working on arts and humanities-based civic engagement projects. Her current work with BT2P includes leading strategy and design for the Paradigm Project and advancing its narrative change, emerging models, and networked collaboration efforts.
She has a BA from Wesleyan University, a PhD from the University of Minnesota, and was a Creative Community Fellow with NAS in 2018.
If you are interested in one-on-one leadership coaching, program design consulting, or training related to arts/humanities and education or civic engagement, please be in touch below.
