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About Kathleen

For over 20 years, Kathleen Wood has partnered with leaders, executives and teams to deliver success to great companies in hospitality, food service, corrections, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and more. Kathleen Wood utilization of her proven “Power of One” system has grown small companies into great companies, shifted good companies into unstoppable forces and turned challenged companies into winners.

From the dish room to the board room, Kathleen has a unique talent of impacting and motivating every individual she comes across. And together, Kathleen and her partners offer consulting services, team facilitations, career coaching, keynote presentations and results-driven solutions that will immediately increase your organization’s productivity and profitability.

Most importantly, Kathleen backs up her consulting with an impressive leadership record of success as a company founder and owner, a president and COO, and a corporate executive, advisor and board member.

Kathleen Wood: Actively Engaged

Founder and Chief Catalyst of Kathleen Wood Partners

Kathleen is the founder of Kathleen Wood Partners, LLC, an innovative growth strategy firm, specializing in building and turning around businesses for new levels of success and profitability. Kathleen and her partners offer consulting services, career coaching, keynote presentations and result driven solutions for hospitality, healthcare, service, manufacturing and retail clients. Her firm consistently works with Fortune 500 leaders, INC 1000 founders, and entrepreneurs.

Kathleen is a nationally recognized growth strategist, motivational speaker and author, and a proven leader in business and non-profits. She blends her corporate sensibility and rigor with entrepreneurial vigor and innovation to deliver sustainable solutions. In 2010, she published her first book, The BEST Shift of Your Life – The Restaurant Manager’s Guide for Success Outside the Restaurant.

Founder of Crystal Clear Careers

Kathleen is the cofounder of Crystal Clear Careers, an exciting and innovative company that offers personalized executive career consulting exclusively to the hospitality industry. Through a proprietary three-phase program, Kathleen and her partners give senior level executives the specific insight and self-awareness they need to become invaluable to a hospitality organization once again.

Kathleen’s years of executive consulting experience have allowed her to develop this in-depth and proprietary three-phase program to help executives develop an intricate understanding of their personal brand, strengths, weaknesses, and what sets them apart from others in the industry. With this system, Kathleen has uncovered the authentic leader in hundreds of executives!

Kathleen Wood: Leadership Success

President and COO of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers

An award-winning company operating 68 restaurants in 14 states with over 2,100 employees and annual revenues of over $100 million. During her tenure, Kathleen led the organization through Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to an unprecedented growth of 100% in two years. Kathleen created the strategic planning process that facilitated the future growth and development of the company.

Co-Founder/President of Elliot Solutions

A premier consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, organizational development and infrastructure management.

Co-Founder/President of the Elliot Leadership Institute

The only non-profit organization dedicated to the development and advancement of executives in the foodservice and hospitality industry.

Active Leadership Roles

• Advisory Board Member, Two Chefs on a Roll (2004 – present)
• Advisory Board Member, The People Report (2006 – present)
• Board Member, Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) (1992 – 1994, present)
• Chairperson, WFF Women in Top Jobs Committee (2010 – present)
• Co-Founder, Foodservice Council for Women
• Circle of Hope Member, The Trevor Project
• Director’s Circle, The Center on Halsted

Other Leadership Contributions:

• President and Board Member, Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (1989 – 1997)
• Contributing Author, Best Practices for Building Diverse Executive Talent, (2004)
• Chairperson, Speaker, Member, People Report Quick Service Symposium (2007 – 2008)
• Treasurer, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure - LA County Affiliate (2009)
• Recipient, Roundtable for Women in Foodservice Pacesetter Award (1993)
• Honorary Doctorate of Foodservice, National Association of Foodservice Equipment    Manufacturers (1995)

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