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Social Innovation Labs
Social Innovation Labs
Social Innovation Labs
At Wilder Collaborative, LLC, we believe in the power of collaborative leadership. Our Social Innovation Labs are designed to foster partnerships that create impactful solutions for complex challenges. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, we help unleash the collective power of leadership. Join us in exploring new possibilities and driving change.
The Leadership Studio
Social Innovation Labs
Social Innovation Labs
Leadership is an art. Artists need studio space to practice, experiment, grow, and transform their craft. We lead custom and open-enrollment workshops & retreats to bring our whole authentic self more fully to leadership for greater impact. Grounded in use-of-self as the instrument, we work together to integrate body, mind, heart & spirit with nature, art, and community.
"Sudden Exit"
Social Innovation Labs
Leadership & Organization Development Consulting
Sudden Exit will be a branded portfolio based on Kathryn Wilder's book (WIP) of the same title. Paired with the book will be: a podcast series, articles, workshops, & keynotes on navigating the hospice-midwife energy of exits, transitions, and liminal spaces that launch us into new beginnings, transform us, and generate our emerging future.
Leadership & Organization Development Consulting
Leadership & Organization Development Consulting
Leadership & Organization Development Consulting
We partner with clients to reveal, explore, and experiment with system & team dynamics to shape, align, integrate, and empower: purpose with action; strategy & vision with measurable results; people with culture.
We apply a cross-disciplinary blend of research, a collaborative approach, and a systems view of human & social complexity and change.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership & Organization Development Consulting
Leadership Coaching
Individual, team, and group coaching creates collaborative partnerships to engage in the deep work of reflection, observation, exploration, inquiry, intention setting, generating insights, seeing new possibilities, and committing to actions and practices to strengthen and transform self and leadership.
About Kathryn Wilder, Ph.D.
Connector
Passionate about convening conversations and connecting people and ideas across domains for the pure joy of discovery, learning, and collaboration to generate something new.
Brings Ideas Into Action
The magic is in bringing visions and dreams into reality -- not in a controlling, driving way -- by being in the moment as they emerge and allowing them to unfold and take shape.
Creative, Integrative Thinker
Embrace complexity and ambiguity; see possibilities across domains & disciplines; bring together ideas for unique application often in unorthodox or counterintuitive ways; generate options and drive actions to make a difference in the real world.
Committed to Building and Serving Community
It's in my nature to connect and serve the collective. I've served as President of the Board of Directors of two professional associations and as a board member on a third. I'm currently a board member with my local League of Women Voters. Even as an active participant without a formal title or position, I am purpose-driven toward impact. Along the way I've built relationships, been mentored, mentored others, and found lasting friendships around the world. I enjoy fostering connections across my network and bringing others together to create value.
Resilient & Strong through Unimaginable Loss
I continue to heal and grow after the loss of my 20YO son in January 2021. I am transformed in remarkable ways, including a new sense of fearlessness, humility, authenticity, clarity about what matters most in life, and a commitment to make it all count. I bring that to each moment, understanding that the small things are the big things.
Founder, Free Agent, Solopreneur
I founded and ran a consultancy in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area from 1996-2016 while I also served as a faculty member with the Center for Creative Leadership, and partnered with boutique firms and large companies. I'm excited to venture back into this world again with Wilder Collaborative.
Internal Consultant with Kaiser Permanente
Proud to support the mission of this innovative nonprofit organization that provides integrated health care and coverage. I partner with our executives and their teams in NCAL as a Sr. Organization Development Consultant.
Writer
A lifelong reader who has written scholarly, academic articles, book chapters, and research, I began a work of historical fiction in 2019. As I finish my novel, "The Unseen World" and begin a work of creative nonfiction, "Sudden Exit", I recognize how integral writing is for me to discover, learn, heal, and grow. It's become a sacred process that brings together my joy for solitude and connection.
BIOGRAPHY
I have 30+ years of experience working with 50+ private and public sector clients in diverse industries, including 11 health systems and 22 U.S. federal agencies. I'm a strategic leader and change agent with a talent for seeing patterns and complexities and supporting and challenging leaders to embrace risk, build agility, and generate fresh solutions to grow in new directions.
I earned a Ph.D. in Leadership & Change from Antioch University and hold an M.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland. I graduated from the ICF-accredited Newfield Network's coach training program.
I'm certified to administer the following assessments and instruments: The Leadership Circle Profile 360 | Workplace Big 5 Profile | Hogan Assessments | Myers-Briggs Type Indicator | Center for Creative Leadership's Suite of 360-degree Feedback Assessments | FIRO-B | Power + Systems' The Organization Workshop | Denison Leadership Development and Organizational Culture Surveys