Kathryn Santana Goldman
EXECUTIVE COACH & LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT
San Francisco, CA
SUMMARY
Kathryn Santana Goldman, BSN, MS, provides professional development services to help leaders in business reach their full potential, increase their productivity and enhance their performance. She applies her skill as an accomplished coach, facilitator, and trainer to assess and meet the needs of her clients to take them to a higher level of skill and professional satisfaction. Over the past two decades, Kathryn has worked with leaders and leadership teams in a variety of organizations. She applies her scientific background to expand a leader’s knowledge of human behavior to enhance self-awareness and the understanding of those they lead.
Her signature is helping leaders:
Prepare for, and transition into, higher levels of leadership
Modify behavioral patterns that are barriers to success
Assess and enhance the performance of their teams
Apply the understanding of neuroscience to expand influencing skills
Build alignment and mutual understanding of organizational strategy and goals
Develop new conversational patterns to repair damaged or challenging relationships
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND
Kathryn’s professional career includes over 20 years of managerial positions. As Vice President of Clinical Services for Health Resource Management in San Francisco, Kathryn managed 150 staff and gained first-hand knowledge of the challenges that leaders face in building a business and creating a high performing team. Her corporate experience includes leading enterprise level change management projects. She led national teams for the implementation of the Electronic Medical Record at Kaiser Permanente and provided program management of strategic process improvement initiatives and three national sales force launch readiness teams at Genentech.
Kathryn volunteers as a Career Advisor for Dress For Success in San Francisco and leads a mentor circle for the Healthcare Business Women Association. She is passionate about supporting our next generation and serves as a mentor working with under privileged children for the SMART organization. She continues to maintain her Active CA Nursing License.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Kathryn is an accomplished professional with a real talent for leadership and team coaching. She has excellent judgment and a deep understanding of organizational dynamics. In addition, her meeting design and facilitation skills are very strong. Kathryn is one of the people that I turn to when I want to discuss a complex organizational, leadership or learning issue.
– CEO, OncoCyte Corporation
Kathryn is a valued, insightful and resourceful colleague. She guides teams and team leaders to work through organizational challenges, find their emotional intelligence and strive to reach beyond their goals.
– Vice President & Head, US Medical at Bristol-Myers Squibb
RECENT CLIENTS
Akamai
Autodesk
BioMarin
EpiBiome Technologies
FivePrime, Pharmaceuticals
Genentech
Keas
Portola, Pharmaceuticals
Roche Pharmaceuticals
Trulia
EDUCATION
MS | San Francisco State University
ASSESSMENT & CERTIFICATIONS
Accelerated Change Management
Business Transformation (IBM)
Organizational Transitions (Bridges)
Grove Strategic Visioning
Grove Team Performance
Organizational Systems Coaching
Conversational Intelligence
Myers-Briggs (MBTI)
TK Conflict Assessment
CCL 360
INSPIRATIONS
Adventure Travel
Music
Photography
Science