About Dr Katy McDevitt
Coaching Purpose + Approach
Comma Leadership's Dr Katy McDevitt helps leaders connect with their deep, creative thinking, in a calm and unrushed coaching space where it's safe to explore the messy business of making progress as a leader. This is not easy work; it demands a coach who holds steady for a leader to investigate and enact change that matters.
Katy believes at heart that each conversation is an opportunity to craft a little more space around the experience of leading. From this space emerge awareness, acceptance, and action.
Creating space to listen to yourself thinking, and taking action according what you discover, can be so helpful to unlocking progress and making transformational shifts in your leadership.
Professional Experience
Katy is an accomplished leadership coach, facilitator and learning strategist who has committed to supporting others to learn and develop over a career now spanning more than two decades.
As a former executive with abundant global experience leading people, teams and organisations through complex times, Katy has enjoyed roles across learning-rich fields like professional and corporate learning, higher education, and publishing.
In 2023, Katy was appointed Lead Faculty for the renowned Williamson Community Leadership Program (WCLP) at Leadership Victoria, which has allowed her to coach and develop around 150 purpose-driven leaders to date.
Education, Training + Credentials
Katy is a highly trained and credentialled coach, facilitator and leader of learning who draws on a unique background in learning sciences, leadership and literature. Katy holds a Graduate Diploma in Learning Sciences (Sydney, 2018), in addition to a Masters degree (Oxford, 1998) and Doctorate in English (Oxford, 2002).
Katy completed ICF-accredited coach education (Levels 1 + 2) with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL). She is an alum of The Art and Practice of Leadership Development at Harvard, and has also trained in Growth Edge Coaching with Cultivating Leadership.
Katy is authorised to deliver several world-class leadership assessments, including The Leadership Circle, Life Styles Inventory, and other solutions for profound insight into inner development and outer impact. Read more