Katherine Tulpa is a renowned board-level CEO, executive coach, and speaker who has a passion for empowering global leaders to achieve greater societal impact through coaching. As the founder of Wisdom8 and the former CEO of the Association for Coaching, Katherine is a leading authority in the coaching industry. Her international business background enables her to work with leaders and multi-cultural teams with global remits.

Katherine is an accomplished coach mentor, author, and speaker whose work focuses on CEO/Board/Executive Team Coaching, Building a High Performing Culture, Influence & Impact, Inclusive Leadership, Board Readiness, Growth Mindset, Executive Resilience, Leadership Circles, Assessment & Profiling. She co-authored "Excellence in Coaching," "Diversity in Coaching," and "Leadership Coaching" (Kogan Page) and serves on the International Editorial Board for "Coaching," an evidence-based coaching journal published by Routledge.

Katherine has received numerous honors for her work, including being named "Coaching/Mentoring Person of the Year" by Coaching at Work and receiving two AC Honorary Awards for "Influencing the Coaching Profession" and "Impacting the Coaching Profession." Her ongoing research involves studying the success factors for effective, multi-cultural boards and applying that knowledge practically in her work with CEOs and top teams.

Katherine advises organizations on building coaching capability across multi-cultural environments and is a frequent speaker on "global coaching." She leads the coaching faculty of the Marketing Academy, a non-profit that involves 45 professional executive coaches gifting their time to develop leaders of tomorrow.