Kathleen is a relational practice leader, mentor, and advisor dedicated to advancing how people connect, lead, and care within complex healthcare environments. With a distinguished background as a nurse executive spanning clinical administration, program design, and project leadership, she brings deep expertise in the operational, academic, and human dimensions of healthcare. Her work is grounded in helping organizations strengthen relationships, foster meaningful connection, and create cultures where both people and practice can thrive.

Centered in the Interprofessional Relational Model, Kathleen helps individuals and organizations strengthen the four key relationships — with self, colleagues, patients and families, and community — through the therapeutic practices of attuning, wondering, following, and holding. She is deeply committed to translating relational theory into everyday practice, helping leaders and teams move beyond task-focused work toward connection, reflection, and shared purpose.

Kathleen is known for creating learning experiences that are both practical and transformative. By integrating principles of therapeutic holding, presence, and psychological safety into her teaching and consulting, she supports organizations in cultivating environments where people feel seen, supported, and empowered. Her work enables teams to strengthen professional excellence while also fostering human flourishing across healthcare settings.

Most passionate about ensuring that even in the most complex and demanding environments people continue to experience care as human, relationships as meaningful, and work as something that connects them to purpose, Kathleen partners with organizations to build cultures grounded in compassion, trust, and relational excellence. As she often says, “The quality of our relationships shapes the quality of our work, and the experience of those we serve.” — Kathleen