About Me

Kathy Mast collaborates with CEOs of global Fortune 1000 companies to achieve a sustainable advantage by solving their most complex business problems with strategies for future-focused innovation and enhanced returns on I/T investments. Kathy Mast Consulting is often called on to create, or confirm, a strategy for improving business performance. As a client observed, “Kathy provides skills that customers need and few consultants provide.”

With her passion for keeping American business the leader in the world marketplace, Kathy is focused on working with Fortune 1000 companies to improve business performance globally. Her clients are, or want to be, innovators in the Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing, Technology and Professional Services industries and include PhyServe Physician Services, Inc., Prime Therapeutics (a Blue Cross Blue Shield Company), Rent-A-Center, Inc. and Gulfstream Aerospace, Inc.

As an executive and consultant working in global companies, Kathy has witnessed, firsthand, the transitions that occur as technology becomes an integrated part of everyday business. She’s learned what great leaders do differently in times of change and has been a champion of employees performing their best in the midst of job and emotional upheaval. As business values shifted due to technology, acquisitions, and outsourcing, both the business and the people are impacted. Kathy is committed to analyzing the positive and negative results from technology, M&A activity, and outsourcing and then drawing practical conclusions for ensuring that we build sustainable business growth through best practices. In her thought leadership blog she examines current and past success stories for future planning and direction.

Recognizing that a corporation’s demand for change often exceeds their capacity to effectively respond, Kathy offers a unique workshop to lead executives to improve responsiveness to unexpected business issues/projects and opportunities for innovation. With extensive experience in business management and I/T, Kathy shares her keen understanding of how to communicate across the enterprise to maximize results. She teaches her proven methodology for organizational structure and processes that allow for effectively meeting new challenges by enabling talented people to contribute their best.

Kathy’s strategic alliances allow her to provide comprehensive resources with a single point of contact. The size of Kathy Mast Consulting allows for flexibility in adjusting to market changes.

With expertise in Innovation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Business Growth Initiatives, Turnaround Management, and I/T Interim Leadership, Kathy is known for her ability to quickly identify/predict strategic issues and solve them with a cross functional team in a timely and tactful manner. She has consistently delivered significant business & I/T cost savings for her clients.

An avid networking and relationship builder, Kathy is an active member of the Associate Board at the Cox School of Business, SMU. She enjoys traveling for pleasure while keeping a keen eye out for global business practices and opportunities.