Kathleen has over 30 years of experience within the media and advertising industry, having held leadership positions within both media owners such as Sky TV, Global Radio, and Virgin to agencies such as PHD and Saatchi & Saatchi. She has operated at the holding company level in both London and New York – most recently as the Global CMO at Omnicom and as Chair of The Ambassador Platform (acquired by IDP plc).
Kathleen founded The Lighthouse Company in 2009 (Talent Agents to the C-Suite) which she transitioned over a decade later into strategic advisory firm MediaLink – placing hundreds of CEO’s around the world. She co-founded Psyched Ventures in 2016, offering company, team and individual psychology, corporate retreats, and performance programmes for executives and Advertising Week Europe in 2011, bringing together the TMT community annually. Both remain vibrant and successful businesses today.
Having advised hundreds of businesses globally on Marketing, Business Growth and Talent, Psyched Ventures offers Board Advisory, Off-Site Facilitation, Board Mediation, Qualitative Benchmarking, Critical project work, Talent & Structure Assessment, Crisis Advisory and C-Suite Talent Management for businesses ranging from Pinterest to Croud and Amazon to Influencer across EMEA and the US.
With a 25-year career in Media working with CEOs in boardrooms across the world, here are a small selection of interviews with Leaders from many different fields, sharing their psychological story to the top.
Offering Executive Psyched coaching, individual psychotherapy, and mental health triage, as well as Board, Group and Couples psychotherapy and mediation.
With a blend of 30 years as global CMO, CEO and entrepreneur in commercial business, blended with 12 years as a practising psychotherapist, Kathleen offers Psyched Coaching for leaders seeking pioneering transformation and liberation in the way they serve and lead. Whether you are a tenured corporate C-Suite operator or a dynamic Entrepreneur, Psyched Coaching engages both your intellectual and emotional brain to self-actualise world class leadership. Sessions are monthly and typically last 90 – 120 minutes and run in sets of 6- 12. Offered in both London, Manhattan and Online.
For Individuals and Couples seeking to address, understand and heal deep and disruptive challenges (from major life trauma through to anxiety and depression) or simply desiring proactive mental health – you can book sessions in person with Kathleen at her private consulting rooms on Wimpole Street in London and Fifth Avenue in New York, as well as online for those who prefer a virtual setting. Sessions follow the clinical hour of 50 minutes, with most clients committing to weekly or bi-weekly appointments to ensure meaningful, progressive, and transformative work.
A selection of the latest published columns, articles of comments from Kathleen at Psyched Ventures.
Kathleen has over 30 years of experience within the media and advertising industry, having held leadership positions within both media owners such as Sky TV, Global Radio, and Virgin to agencies such as PHD and Saatchi & Saatchi. She has operated at the holding company level in both London and New York – most recently as the Global CMO at Omnicom and as Chair of The Ambassador Platform (acquired by IDP plc).
Kathleen founded The Lighthouse Company in 2009 (Talent Agents to the C-Suite) which she transitioned over a decade later into strategic advisory firm MediaLink – placing hundreds of CEO’s around the world. She co-founded Psyched Ventures in 2016, offering company, team and individual psychology, corporate retreats, and performance programmes for executives and Advertising Week Europe in 2011, bringing together the TMT community annually. Both remain vibrant and successful businesses today.
She is a qualified, accredited, and practicing psychotherapist, supervisor and mediator and a registered member of the UKCP, BACP and the CMC – seeing clients and patients in both London and NYC and a regular board advisor and executive coach. She has authored two books with Hachette on Business Psychology and Narcissism and is a regular on-screen psychotherapist for ITV’s This Morning, columnist for Stylist Magazine and contributor for The Times.
Katheen was made a Fellow of The Marketing Society in 2023, a Trustee of the NSPCC in 2024, remains a member of UK’s WACL, NYC’s Influencers and is a regular mentor for Speakers for Schools.
She lives in both London and NYC with her dog Humphrey and has two grown up children Ned and Nancy who work for Formula1 and Yungblud respectively having now flown the nest. She adores live music, especially at Ronnie Scott’s and is a flautist, a pianist and an unexpected fan of boxing.
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