Work with Katie Iles.
Every engagement Katie takes starts with the same question: what's actually going on here? The presenting problem is rarely the real problem. Whether you're booking a keynote, building a leadership programme, or navigating a moment of real organisational change — that's where the work begins.
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Keynotes
Diagnostic keynotes that change the room.
Katie's keynotes don't motivate. They diagnose. They name what your audience is already experiencing, reframe the cause, and give them language they didn't have before they walked in the room. Audiences leave with a new frame for the problems they've been carrying — not a temporary feeling that fades on the drive home.
She is known for making resistant audiences lean in. For making sceptical leaders feel seen rather than blamed. For delivering hard truths with enough with that the room laughs before it thinks — and then thinks harder.
Matt Jones — Co-founder, Four Pillars Gin & ThinkStoryExperience
"Whip smart, stupidly insightful, energising and just downright funny — one of the very best I've seen, and I've seen a lot."
Audiences leave understanding something they didn't before — with frameworks they can apply the next day.
Critiques systems, not people. Resistant audiences stay in the room — and engage — because nobody is being attacked.
Confirmed track record across financial services, healthcare, resources, government, education, and professional associations.
All topics can be shaped to your audience, event, and specific challenges.
Workshops &
Leadership Programs
Multi-session programmes for executive and senior leadership cohorts.
Keynotes create a moment. Workshops create change that sticks. Katie's leadership development programmes are designed for executive and senior leadership cohorts who need more than frameworks — they need practical tools that apply to the specific dynamics of their team, their sector, and the challenges they're actually facing.
This isn't off-the-shelf. Katie works with a curated network of experts through The Praxis Collective — meaning she draws on the right specialist for each team's specific needs, rather than applying a generic template. Each programme is diagnostic before it is developmental.
Katie Iles — CEO & Founder of The Praxis Collective
"We don't have a leadership crisis. We have an execution crisis. Leaders don't lack vision — they lack the scaffolding to sustain it."
The foundation of every leadership programme. Understanding your own formation, assumptions, defaults, and blind spots before attempting to lead anyone else.
Focus: Self-awareness, values clarity, leadership identity
How to build trust, navigate differences, and create conditions for high performance across a generationally diverse team. Relational intelligence in practice.
Focus: Team dynamics, generational intelligence, trust architecture
System-level leadership. How to shape culture, influence without authority, design decision-making structures, and lead organisations through change.
Focus: Culture design, structural leadership, legacy
Executive Coaching
For senior leaders navigating the challenges that don't come with a manual.
Some challenges are too complex, too sensitive, or too personal for a workshop. Executive coaching with Katie is a different kind of engagement — high-trust, longer-term, and focused on the specific leadership situation you're navigating right now.
Katie works with a small number of senior leaders, founders, and executives at any one time. Not because of capacity — because depth requires it. These are not check-in calls or accountability sessions. They are rigorous, often confronting, always productive conversations that help leaders see their situation more clearly and act with more precision.
Who is Executive Coaching for?
Senior leaders at infection points, founders navigating growth, executives in complex team dynamics and leaders carrying something unsaid.
Before any engagement begins, Katie spends time understanding your situation, your context, and what you actually need — not what you think you need.
The first phase of work focuses on getting a clear picture of what's actually going on — beneath the presenting problem, beneath the noise.
Regular sessions, calibrated to your pace and the complexity of the work. Most engagements run for six to twelve months, with flexibility built in.
The work doesn't stay in the room. Katie helps you translate insight into action— and holds you to it, with the care of someone who wants you to actually succeed.
Consulting & Advisory
Delivered by Katie & The Praxis Collective.
Organisation-level problems require organisation-level solutions. When the challenge isn't one leader, one team, or one programme — but the system itself — that's where The Praxis Collective comes in.
Katie brings her frameworks and diagnostic instinct to culture design, leadership architecture, and system redesign at an organisational level. Delivered through The Praxis Collective, this work draws on a curated network of experts — meaning you get Katie's intellectual architecture plus the right specialist for your specific challenge. Not one perspective. The right perspectives.
Katie Iles — CEO & Founder of The Praxis Collective
"I help leaders, founders and executives solve generational friction and organisational drag. What I usually find is that the problem lies three levels deeper — and it's not about people. It's about systems."
The organisation has scaled faster than its systems. Culture is fragmenting, accountability is unclear, and the founder's original model no longer fits the size of the business.
A new CEO, a board refresh, or a senior leadership change that has exposed misalignment in the team, the structure, or the culture beneath it.
Five generations in the workforce, incompatible assumptions about work, and a culture that was designed for people who no longer make up the majority of the team.
alues on the wall that don't match experience in the room. The organisation knows something is wrong but can't agree on what it is — or nobody will say it out loud.
