About Me
Hi! I’m Dr. Katie Best and I am a leadership coach, consultant and facilitator. I work with individual leaders and leadership teams to develop their skills, improve their performance and help them to tackle complex challenges.
I started my career as an academic, completing a PhD at King’s College London. I then moved to BPP University as MBA Director, where I helped to create an award-winning specialist MBA, focused on the legal services sector. I moved from BPP to LSE where I was given the unique role of Foundation for Management Education Fellow, and tasked with improving the relationships between academia and business within the Department of Management. Throughout this time, I was coaching leaders and facilitating team workshops and coaching.
When I had my daughter in the mid-2010s, I began my own leadership development business, which today is called KatieBest Associates. Through this, I deliver leadership coaching, and design and deliver leadership development programmes for organisations, as well as providing leadership coaching. I’ve worked with a wide range of sectors, including legal services, accountancy, health, government, fintech, tech, and the cultural and creative sectors.
I’m still affiliated to LSE, as a Visiting Fellow, and to King’s College London Business School as a Visiting Research Fellow. I love these roles, as they give me the opportunity to work with exceptional colleagues and students, and to provide coaching and facilitation for their executive education programmes. I am also Head Tutor on LSE’s flagship online certificate programme, ‘MBA Essentials.’
I enjoy helping leaders to solve their challenges, and this led me to start my fortnightly mail-out, ‘Dear Katie‘, in which I help readers to solve their real problems.
I have also just finished writing a book on the same topic, called ‘The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems and How to SOLVE Them’, which will be published by Hachette in Fall 2025.
If you’d like to hear more about the work I do, or explore mutual interests, or you think there is a way I could be of help with the leadership problems that you or your organsiation are facing, please reach out to me at katie@katiebest.com – I would love to hear from you!