Kathleen Hamblin

Based in Berlin, Germany, for the past 30 years, Dr. Hamblin has over 3 decades of experience working with organizations around the world. She has designed and delivered programs on leadership, management effectiveness, cultural competence, and diversity and inclusion. As a former Chief Learning Officer and Chief Diversity Officer, her specialties include the business case for diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias throughout the performance management lifecycle, creating more inclusive teams, and Inclusive leadership. As more employers focus on gender equity and LGBTQ+ inclusion throughout Europe, Dr. Hamblin’s experience has helped many of these organizations achieve belonging, equity, inclusion, and culture change.

For 3 years, Dr. Hamblin was an Associate Client Partner in Leadership and Talent Consulting for Korn Ferry HayGroup and co-lead for Diversity and Inclusion in EMEA. She focused on large-scale development programs, performance management, senior executive coaching, diversity and inclusion, and inclusive leadership. She was also a team member for Korn Ferry’s premier Executive to Leader Institute (ELI) which won HR.com’s 2016 award for the “Best Global Leadership program”.

In her own consultancy and as an associate for Management Center Europe, the Danish Leadership Institute, and the Center for Creative Leadership, Dr. Hamblin designed and delivered a wide variety of programs including: Leadership, Strategy and Organisational Culture; People Performance Management; Influencing; Leading Change; Building and Leading Teams; Effective Communication; Stress Management; Coaching; Creativity; Presentation Skills; and Diversity and Inclusion for organizations such as Alcoa, Nokia, Carlsberg, Altana, Hilton International, ASML, and A.P.Moller-Maersk Group in Europe, North and South America, the Gulf Region, Africa, and Asia.

Dr. Hamblin holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and a Master’s degree in Cross-Cultural relationships. She is a Certified Diversity Executive. Born in the French part of Canada, Dr. Hamblin went to gymnasium in Sweden and university in the United States. In addition to Germany and Sweden, she has also lived and worked in Colombia, Peru, and Belgium. She is a native English speaker who also speaks good French and German, as well as some Spanish, Italian and Swedish.