Relational strategist. Creative pragmatist. Futures facilitator.#
Katie Reid is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University. Katie is a former partner in global and public-sector consultancies where she built and ran businesses focused on bringing a humanity-centred approach to designing the future.
Katie brings practical experience leading delivery of some of Australia’s largest reforms and transformations over the past decade, applying principles of co-design and cybernetics to strategy development, cross-sector collaboration, and executive leadership.
Katie is a multidisciplinary strategist, designer and communicator whose work has been recognised and awarded globally. She brings a process to working through ambiguity and complexity that has been applied to topics spanning: combatting modern slavery, climate adaptation, biosecurity, national security, energy transition, innovation in agriculture; and water management. Katie works as an independent advisor and facilitator, helping organisations become more systems-literate, imaginative and empowered to design and adapt to different futures.
Areas of Expertise: Strategy, Executive Leadership, Collaboration Design, Codesign, Sociocracy, Program Design and Delivery, Strategic Communications, Facilitation.