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Katherine is the founding director of the Sysdoc Group, a Process, Knowledge, Change Management and Learning consulting services firm, which operates in the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Kazakhstan. Sysdoc specialises in leading organisational change, business process improvement programmes, the design and development of online process models and knowledge bases, and the design and delivery of staff development and business performance improvement training programs. Prior to starting the SYSDOC group, Katherine worked as an Instructor in a Technical College in France, in Computer Operations for IBM, and as an Information Architect for the International Stock Exchange of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The combination of the linguistic, aviation and IT experience gained in Katherine’s early working life enabled her to see the power of IT enabled process excellence to deliver extraordinary business performance results for private sector, blue chip and public sector organisations. Her passion and thought leadership in this field led her to found Sysdoc, at age 25. Since then, her passion for people has seen Sysdoc grow to a global enterprise, which coincidentally has three female CEO’s heading each of the regional operations. Sysdoc is an award winning company – some of the awards include: the Trade New Zealand - Export Award in 2002; National Award for Best Practice in HR, from the HR Institute of NZ, as Winner, HR Initiative of the Year for Strategic Remuneration, 2001; Finalist, Rotary International Business Ethics Awards, NZ; and a Global Gold Award for Knowledge and Process Management, presented by the GIGA Group and the Workflow and Re-engineering Industry Association. Katherine won an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award – Services, Financial and Arts category in 2005.Katherine provides business mentoring services and seed/venture capital for start-up organisations and is the Director of several companies, including a technology company that develops Learning Management and Competence Development Management Systems. Katherine has been an independent judge of national tertiary post graduate awards co-ordinated by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MORST) in NZ, which encourage entrepreneurship in Post Graduate programmes at universities throughout New Zealand. She has also been an international judge for the Brandon-Hall e-Learning awards. As a mother of four children, Katherine is acutely aware of the needs and challenges of raising healthy, happy children in a secure environment, while working in a fiercely competitive business world. Katherine and her executive team have developed Sysdoc into an organisation that lives and breathes family values, while ensuring that it delivers extraordinary results to our customers. Katherine holds a Degree of Master of Arts, Honours (MA) from the University of Canterbury (1983), where she specialised in Socio-Linguistics, Generative Grammar and French/English Phonology.