Kathy Devi McFadden has been partnering with leaders for over 25 years. She has an excellent track record of making an impact in the lives of her clients through trust-based partnerships. Devi’s coaching practice focuses on working with leaders to nurture the innate vibrance of people and teams. She will coach, guide and work with leaders and their teams to fuel next-level performance. Her coaching services leverage a variety of assessments including multiple 360 tools, Instinctive Drives™, Emotional Intelligence, Strengths-Based appraisals, and interpretation of other resources providing valuable insight from the participant, peers, and leadership.

Devi was an Operations Leader and Leadership Coach at Cisco. Most recently Devi led the Global People Services team at Xilinx. With her additional experience as Director of Human Resources, Senior Business Partner roles, and Change Management Consultant, she understands the complexities and challenges faced by leaders at all levels. Devi McFadden has extensive people-centric leadership, training, and coaching experience in large corporate settings and has experience improving worker performance at multiple levels. She works successfully with all disciplines and works with clients around the globe.

Highly educated, Devi holds a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Divinity, is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and Instinctive Drives™ Certified I.D. Partner, Certified Practitioner in Team Coaching, and a member of the International Coach Federation. She brings additional knowledge to her coaching services as a trained and certified instructor in mindfulness, meditation, and yoga. Devi is married and has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2001.

Notable Client Achievements

• Coached IT Leader to increase executive presence resulting in opportunities to speak at global conferences and featured speaker at live conference in Las Vegas.
• Coached IT Leader through career transition resulting in job change to a role in the desired geographic location with a promotion.
• Provided leadership coaching to multiple cohorts of underrepresented professionals resulting in internal mobility, desirable career transitions, promotions and increased engagement.-
• Coached Marketing Leader to improve effectiveness of communication resulting in desirable career change and promotion.