Testimonials

“Working with Kate was a thrill. She is compassionate and supportive, yet she challenges you to stretch and achieve your best. Kate always makes time to listen, and she is incredibly resourceful in offering guidance and solutions.

She creates an open and engaging academic environment where everyone feels encouraged to contribute and grow. Her ability to build strong relationships across diverse groups makes her both an excellent lecturer, coach, researcher and consultant. I am truly grateful for her support.”

“Kate brings a rare blend of professionalism, insight, and compassion to her work as an independent humanitarian consultant.

She has guided teams through sessions on communication and managing priorities, helping us work more effectively together. She invested in the professional growth of individual team members, strengthening their skills in emergency response and preparedness. Her ability to facilitate large learning sessions and extract key lessons from multi-year food security projects has been invaluable in shaping our future programs.

Kate has been a trusted mentor to me, helping me grow as a leader. Her thoughtful guidance and practical wisdom have had a lasting impact on my own leadership journey.”

“I was part of a team that commissioned Kate as a consultant to carry out humanitarian field research in several locations directly affected by conflict-related displacement. The research required creativity, extreme sensitivity, and the ability to draw practical lessons from a highly diverse group of respondents across multiple countries. Kate delivered an extraordinarily helpful and thought-provoking piece of work. I would recommend Kate without hesitation for humanitarian research and evaluation consultancies. She is experienced, insightful, and committed, combining passionate idealism with a recognition of what is practically achievable.”

“I had the privilege of being taught and supervised by Kate for my postgraduate research. Her patience, guidance and willingness to share resources were instrumental in helping me navigate a subject that was relatively new to me, leading to an excellent outcome.  An altruistic leader who not only supports the development of others but also celebrates their successes.”

“Kate is a highly effective communicator, personable and engaging, deeply conscientious, totally reliable and someone with enormous cross cultural experience, awareness and sensitivity. I have huge respect for her professionalism, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion. I have no hesitation in recommending her for research, evaluation, coaching and consultancy work with humanitarian organisations and beyond.”

“Kate is very respectful, empathetic and culturally aware of her surroundings and it has been my pleasure to invite her on the podcast show that I host, to share stories from Changemakers around the world. Kate’s story was very inspiring.  I admire her resilience to continue her career and to follow her passions for some very important issues of our time. I look forward to collaborating with Kate in the near future.”

“Kate’s knowledge, wisdom and skills as a supervisor were invaluable to me during my dissertation. Her support, feedback and practical help made it possible for me to complete my dissertation during a very stressful time.”

“Kate supervised my Masters dissertation in Theology with Humanitarian Development and Social Justice. She was so supportive and pushed me to do the best work I was capable of. I learned loads in the Masters modules she co-led and applied the knowledge in my job as Co-Leader of a local poverty relief development charity. I fully recommend Kate as a learning mentor.”

“Kate was a constant support and unceasing encouragement to me during my MA studies… Kate makes others feel their thoughts and ideas matter. Kate helped me build my confidence in critical thinking and academic writing. Her extensive field experience has left me and my fellow students wanting to learn and do more.”