Kathy Andersen Email & Phone Number

Miami Beach, Fl, Us

END1IN4.org has a mission to end the impact and magnitude of child sexual abuse through innovative and breakthrough public awareness and engagement campaigns, education, and advocacy. www.End1in4.org

Kathy Andersen is an award-winning author, consultant, and coach, internationally recognized for helping people, communities, and organizations achieve happiness, purpose, and impact. Kathy's award-winning book, Change Your Shoes, Live Your Greatest Life, and accompanying workbook, Change Your Shoes, 365 Life Resolutions, have helped readers internationally to overcome difficult circumstances and step into happiness. In Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s Option B, (2017), Kathy’s story is shared to help others face adversity, build resilience, and find joy. Kathy offers a pragmatic and personal, yet deeply insightful and thought-provoking path to overcoming hardship and embracing happiness with purpose and impact by combining western research and practice on leadership and positive psychology with teachings and practices of mindfulness and well-being from Kathy's work and training with Buddhist monks in India, along with Kathy’s own life experience of overcoming a childhood of sexual abuse.

Miami, Fl, Us

Responsible for the leadership, growth, transformation, management, development, funding, and all aspects of communications and community relations of the organization. The mission of The Women's Fund of Miami-Dade is to improve the lives of women and girls in Miami-Dade County through advocacy, education, research, and grant-making. Four areas of focus aim to affect systemic change: Leadership Development, Economic Security, Health, and Freedom from Violence. In 2019 and 2020, Kathy led the creation and execution of The Official Super Bowl Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign for the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee and NFL Foundation, and award-winning public awareness and advocacy campaigns on issues to advance women and girls.

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

An executive leadership role created to establish a university-wide institute for global health and development, focusing on contributing to health and development in impoverished communities in South Florida and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Major accomplishments included the formal establishment and approval of the institute through the faculty senate of the university; acquisition of multi-million dollars in start-up funding for the institute; development and implementation of programs in areas of community health, maternal health, education, disaster response, water, and agriculture in Haiti; expansion of community health center services in Little Haiti, Miami-Dade County; a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action for development programs in Haiti; collaboration with Professor Jeffrey Sachs and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the World Bank and the IDB to establish and implement the Millennium Village model in Haiti in partnership with the government of Haiti and local and international non-profit organizations.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Masters in Public AdministrationJohn F. Kennedy School of Government

Responsible for all aspects of organizational management and business development, including: strategy development, financial management, program development and implementation, general operations, grant writing and funding proposals, funding agency relationships, institutional relationships, community service and volunteer programs, strategic planning, marketing, communications, and public relations. Major accomplishments included growing the organization from a US$350,000 operation to a $3 million operation in three years; increasing the number of participants served from several hundred to more than 7,500 per year; securing grant funding of $15 million from federal, state, and local funding agencies and foundations; expanding programming to encompass areas of national significance including afterschool education, youth development, disabilities, and health and wellness; expanding the number of community-based organizations served from less than twenty to more than fifty over three years; receiving award-winning program recognition by the U.S. Department and Florida Department of Education; and working as a member of the Florida Statewide Afterschool Committee to establish the Florida Afterschool Network, which remains the preeminent organization for advancing afterschool programs and policy in Florida.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

A new executive position responsible for the transformation of Ford Motor Company of Australia from “production-driven” to “customer-driven” as part of a new global strategy encompassing new product development, market research, marketing, communications, business processes, and new technology. Major accomplishments included the establishment of a US$10 million Customer Relationship Management joint venture that increased customer service capacity, and provided multiple new communications channels for customer sales and service; leading the market research for the development of the new Ford Territory which became the number one selling Sports Utility Vehicle in the Australian market in its first year; and leading the development of the first integrated company-wide customer information and knowledge management technology system to enable increased sales generation, life cycle communications, marketing, customer service delivery, and lifetime customer profitability.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Senior management role in the corporate strategy team of one of Australia's largest financial institutions. Key responsibilities included providing internal consulting to company executives and senior management focused on the development and execution of new and innovative strategies and business initiatives to increase customer profitability and return on shareholder equity. Major accomplishments included the successful merger and acquisition of one of the country’s largest regional banks, the Bank of Melbourne; the development and launch of a new banking distribution model that involved the establishment of banking centers throughout the country’s largest supermarket chain; and the development and launch of the first co-branded credit card for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

New York, Ny, Us

This role was responsible for the marketing and product development of consumer lending products. Major accomplishments included the re-development of consumer lending products and associated marketing activities resulting in more than doubling of consumer acquisition and spending; and negotiating and acquiring a $5 million line of credit portfolio from Westpac Banking Corporation and integrating customers into the new portfolio.

Master’S Degree, Leadership, International Development

Graduate Management Qualification, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Marketing & Finance

Phd Transpersonal Psychology

Positive Psychology