November 11, 2021
6:30 PM est
Kathy Gallo Founder, CEO & Executive Coach
Kathy Gallo is Founder and CEO of Goodstone Group LLC, a global network of executive coaches working with leaders, teams, and Boards. Kathy’s coaching of senior leaders includes several Board-directed succession assignments. She also consults on retaining and advancing women. Kathy holds leadership roles on two non-profit Boards and invests in and advises a for-profit startup in the energy sector.
Previously, Kathy was an SVP for Fannie Mae, where she led a transformation of the Human Resource function and partnered closely with the Board on culture, executive assessments and compensation, and on C-level succession planning. Kathy was a Partner with McKinsey & Company where she worked for sixteen years, leading global programs to help recruit, develop, excite, and retain 12,000 consultants operating in 44 countries.
Kathy holds a B.S.E.E. from Virginia Tech, an M.B.A. from Marymount University of Virginia, and a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University.
Getting the Feedback You Need to Succeed
Battles to identify and remove biases rage on - in hiring, in assessments, and in promotion and rewards. Meanwhile, learning to obtain candid, timely, and usable feedback can help you be more successful in your current job in spite of biases. Quality feedback can also help you demonstrate readiness for the next role and can improve your ability to decide if it’s time to find a new job, elsewhere. In her work with highly successful female leaders in roles up to and including Managing Partner and CEO, Kathy has found clear evidence that women leaders receive less feedback, and less useful feedback. In this session, Kathy will share techniques she’s learned from 17 years as an executive coach who begins most engagements by seeking and decoding colleagues’ feedback on her coaching clients. She’ll share two mini cases to illustrate the power of “the whisper”, and then she’ll share tips and techniques to get the feedback that you may not be getting.