Channeling insight into action

Katrina (Kate) Pugh, Ph.D. is a co-designer of the Mayo Clinic Inspiring Workplace program. She is a consultant, researcher, and educator on collaboration and sustainability. Since 2011 Kate has taught at Columbia University’s Information and Knowledge Strategy’s MS Program. As President of AlignConsulting, she helps build purposeful, productive conversation capacity among teams and networks, and has used Generative AI and data science to quantify the impact of conversation on sustainability outcomes. Her clients range from large pharmaceuticals, to international development leaders, to nonprofits, to high tech innovators. She held executive KM roles with Fidelity, Intel, and JPMorganChase. She is a partner of Weaving Futures, an educational consultancy focused on impact networks. Kate earned a PhD from UMaine (Ecology and Environmental Science), SM/MBA from MIT, and a BA in Economics from Williams College.