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Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kathy Best Design is an ASID award winning, full-service interior design firm. We specialize primarily in high-end residential projects, renovations, and new construction. We have designed signature interior spaces for clients from coast to coast since 1990. We consider our clients our best resource and valuable partners. Our experience covers new construction, whole house renovation, single room makeovers, and furniture design.

True leaders of complex change are hard to find. Kathy is one of these rare leaders. She builds capability in organisations by working with CEOs and their teams to implement intense policy and reform agendas. She brings order to complexity. She gets it done. Specialising in nationwide and state-wide programs, she is dynamic, with a unique ability to tailor her approach to meet the challenges of the environment. She is a natural collaborator, caring deeply about people and results. Kathy operates on a no surprises rule, and she never does Emperors New Clothes. In high stress situations she brings practical plans and calm assurance. Through her 20+ years business, government, university teaching, executive leadership coaching and not for profit management, she has gained deep expertise in the art and science of management. She supports leaders, their development, and works within their time and resource constraints. Kathy majored in Law & Corporate Governance, Minored in Strategy and Leadership at QUT in the highest rated Executive MBA in Australia. Conversant in consulting frameworks and project methods proven in hundreds of thousands of projects around the world, and in 25+ organisations she has worked with: PMBOK, Prince2, Agile, Lean, MSP, P3M3, P30, DICE, Kotter, ADKAR, and SAI Global's Business Excellence Framework. With a background managing in the not for profit sector, Kathy's teams are inspired by her wisdom and incredible strengths in people leadership. Passionate about making a big picture contribution, she has delivered programs in Social Policy, Health, Education, Transport and Law with up to 30 project managers and 125 projects. She believes, with Amelia Earhart: "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." Connect with Kathy directly for a confidential discussion on kathy@kathygilbert.net.

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