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Duke Corporate Education
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Durham, NC 27701
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Kathleen Ponder

Director, Global Learning Methods

For the past three years, Dr. Kathleen Mary Ponder has held the position of Director of Global Learning Methods at Duke Corporate Education. Responsible for stimulating and scaling Duke CE’s innovative, break-through approaches to executive education around the world, she has designed and delivered programs for multinational corporations, NGOs, and educational institutions in India, Asia, Europe and the U.S. Using a business challenge as their focus, her team creates solutions embracing and leveraging the cognitive, affective and, at times, physical capacities of executives.

Prior to assuming her current role, Kathleen held a number of senior leadership roles at the Center for Creative Leadership, directing their Global Design and Evaluation Services and CCL’s Education and NGO Program offerings. During her 13 years at CCL, she and her teams designed innovative learning solutions for executive and senior leadership teams intended to close the ‘knowing – doing gap’ and she continues to explore methods for ensuring that leaders, teams, and organizations truly transform after attending educational experiences. She has also authored leadership development tools and processes, including the Leadership Development Impact Assessment and the Strategic Relationship Matrix.

Kathleen has extensive experience leading programs for and coaching senior executives that directly address their specific business challenges. Her specialty topics include leading across cultures, change, developing high performing cross-functional and cross-organizational strategic relationships, senior team/Board dynamics, and CEO intra- and interpersonal leadership excellence. Her research and publications address similar topics. She has worked with a variety of organizations, including international relief organizations, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, food products, insurance, petrochemicals, entertainment, education, and U.S. Military Generals and Admirals and other senior government officials.

Kathleen earned her B.S. in Speech Pathology and Audiology at S.U.N.Y., New Paltz, her M.Ed. at McDaniels College in Psycholinguistics and Education, and her doctorate from the University of North Texas.