Kate Ebner

Kate Ebner is the founder and principal of The Nebo Company, a leadership development firm based in Washington, D.C. She is also co-founder of a Connecticut-based company dedicated to the professional development of female leaders, called Full Circle Partners, LLC. She is committed to working with men and women who want to make a positive difference and includes Fortune 100 corporations, mid-sized companies and non-profit organizations in her diverse client base. Her company specializes in helping individuals, teams and organizations “make their vision real.”

A change leader in high performance organizations throughout her career, Kate is a strategic and pragmatic thinker who helps her clients to simplify and work with complex personal and organizational patterns. As a dean at Middlebury College in Vermont, she worked with the College’s powerful new residential vision to engage the community in pursuit of a higher level of educational excellence. She co-led a major cultural and organizational change at the College in the late 90’s before coming to Washington, D.C. to lead the design and implementation of a growth strategy for an international consulting firm, Kaiser Associates. The firm has doubled in size since she joined in 2000 and was just named as one of the top 3 “quality of life” consulting firms in a national survey, citing the firm’s commitment to professional development and mentoring as special attributes of the culture. Kate continues to oversee the development of the firm’s talent internationally. Kate brings strategic perspective, a focus on results, and firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be the leader of change.

Kate earned a bachelor’s degree in English/Creative Writing from Middlebury College in 1987 and has completed graduate work in English literature at the Bread Loaf School of English. She holds a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and has completed coursework with the Interdevelopmental Institute and the Omega Institute.

Kate believes that one of the essential traits of leaders is resiliency, which depends on the ability to center oneself by connecting with values and inner strengths and then adapting effectively and mindfully to the challenges of the day. She teaches leaders to find inner balance and resiliency through great self-awareness. She frequently speaks about the myth of work/life balance, resiliency, how to create and enact a powerful vision, and how to lead change.