Our Trainers
Katy Holt-Larsen
Katy Holt-Larsen has an incredible talent for asking clarifying questions that motivate individuals to reflect on what they want before making choices.
My most challenging and passionate work involves coaching individuals and teams to find deeper wisdom within themselves to make transformative changes and solve problems in their personal and professional lives. Often this happens when they become aware of and connect to their own unique imprint - what unique gifts and passions they have - and find ways to integrate their unique gifts into their everyday life.
Areas ofEXPERTISE:
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Coaching: 12 years experience working as a management consultant with executives and individuals coaching for accountability
Personal Empowerment: 10 years experience guiding clients to identify and visualize their dreams and goals, magnetize the result they are looking for and influence a change in themselves to achieve it
Sustainable Behavior Change: Success in facilitating multiple change efforts at the organization, team and individual level where root causes are identified and systems and supporting processes (behavior changes) are put in place to sustain the change
Facilitation: Expertise in facilitating communication skills courses – Influencing Skills, Conflict Resolution and Presentation Skills. Skilled in drawing out participants, listening so individuals feel heard and bringing the learning of the group to a deeper level. Experience in facilitating small and large group dialogues, training and change efforts.
Leadership Development: Skilled in focusing leaders on key results and then changing their own and/or organization behaviors to drive to those results
Professional EXPERIENCE:
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Director, Training & Development and Quality Assurance, eBay, Inc., 2005 - present
Partner, Go, Think, Do Consulting, 1997 - 2004
Knowledge Management Consultant, Outsights, 1997 - 2003
Employee and Organizational Development Consultant, Novell, 1993 - 1997
EDUCATION:
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Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: Bachelor’s in American Studies
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: Master’s in Organizational Behavior
PERSONAL Interests :
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Partner of one: Derek; Parent of two: Palmer (12) & Meredith (10)
Loves adventure, traveling, skiing, reading, cooking and hiking