About Dr Katy McDevitt
Mission + Founding Beliefs
Comma Leadership's Dr Katy McDevitt has a mission to help leaders connect with their deep, creative thinking, in a calm and unrushed environment where it's safe to explore the messy work of making progress as a leader.
Katy believes at heart that each conversation is an opportunity to craft a little more space around someone's experience of leading. From this space emerges insight, the wisdom of experience, and ideas for change, influence, and progress.
Creating space to listen to yourself thinking, and cultivating a regular practice for that, is the key to unlocking and making transformational shifts in your leadership.
Professional Experience
Katy is a practising leadership coach, facilitator and learning strategist who has a longstanding commitment to supporting others to learn and develop, combined with broad practical experience as a leader in complex, changing environments.
As a leader with more than two decades of guiding learning and growth in complex settings, she has led and developed several significant teams, portfolios and organisations, in fields like professional learning, higher education, and digital education.
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 more than 100 purpose-driven leaders to date.
Education, Training + Credentials
Katy is a highly trained and experienced coach, facilitator and leader of learning, with world-class credentials in coaching and leadership development, including:
- Harthill Leadership Development Profile Authorised Debriefer
- HBDI® Certified Practitioner - Whole Brain Thinking® Coach
- Immunity to Change™ Facilitator (Minds at Work)
- Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL) Certified Organisational Coach (Levels 1 + 2)
- The Leadership Circle Profile™ Certified Coach.
Katy holds a Graduate Diploma in Learning Sciences (Sydney, 2018) and is a Doctor of English (Oxford, 2002). She is an alumna of the Harvard program The Art and Practice of Leadership Development. She has trained extensively across her key practice areas, including with AHRI (Aus), Cultivating Leadership (NZ), Design Thinkers Academy (UK), and Melbourne Business School (Aus).