"Katie Montbriand was the Chief of Staff for a divisional leader at Capital One, accountable for more than 1000 employees. Katie’s maturity as a COS is the best I’ve seen in my career. She anchored a team of senior leaders to a higher sense of purpose, mainly to elevate the lives of our customers and associates, while also aligning us toward tangible short-term results.

Katie effortlessly balances assertiveness with kindness, competitiveness with compassion, and fearlessness with humility. During her time as COS, we produced powerful results and had a lot of fun doing it. I highly recommend Katie for jobs as President of a start-up, a C-level leader of an established company, and of course as a COS of a Fortune 100."

Katie and I worked together as leaders when our organization consolidated several disparate functions and people from vertical organizations into a large, horizontal team. Katie stepped up to create a single, cohesive, engaging culture for the newly formed team.

Katie effectively defined key problems to address, created a planning discipline with clearly stated outcomes and measurable key results, and delivered consistently with high quality. Katie's efforts resulted in over a 25% increase in associate engagement within 6 months, which she achieved while the team was 100% virtual.

Katie proactively develops and drives strategy to solve big problems, with a people first mindset. Her ability to lead a large team through a mutli-dimensional change paid big dividends to the organization, and allowed us to get meaningful business results out of a highly engaged team.

I would recommend Katie for any role where there is a need to create structure and drive outcomes within an uncertain environment, while actively creating a positive culture along the way.

“Katie and I worked together as peers – she was the CoS for my manager. During this time, I learned a lot from Katie about investing in a common identity and culture, building a resilient leadership team and effectively collaborating across shared initiatives. I would highly recommend Katie to any leader looking to invest deeply in building a leadership bench, driving a cultural transformation or increasing team engagement”