Katharine White, MS, is President & Founder of Lighthouse Performance Strategies, Inc. (Lighthouse PSI), known for fast-tracking individuals & organizations of all types & sizes to their desired destinations. At Lighthouse PSI, desired outcomes are destinations & each process of reaching them a journey.Katharine & her team ensure that you never 'travel alone', guiding you every step of the way through the services you need, from start-up through exit & succession planning & any additional specialized focus areas in between.Lighthouse PSI engagements draw on the many facets of Katharine's diverse career. A former ICU RN & psychotherapist, she advanced to become a seasoned C-suite executive, entrepreneur, business owner, certified coach, thought leader, author & speaker. Her wealth of experience, warmth, humor & hands-on style not only resonate with her clients; they also set the tone & a high benchmark for her fellow team members.Aligned with Lean Principles & McKinsey's transformational change research, & using Business Values: Customers First (tm) the fast track, managerial science innovation she co-developed, Katharine empowers her clients to establish & refine the ideal, strategic & tactical processes which drive excellence. The heart & greatest value of what she brings to each engagement, is her ability to achieve results through people.In addition to possessing extraordinary depth in healthcare, focusing on its acute, home & behavioral health sectors; Katharine is constantly innovating to re-adapt what works in one industry to others. Her well-established reputation extends beyond healthcare as well, across a wide bandwidth of industries such as insurance, mortgage, real estate, sail training, coaching, academics, financial services & executive recruiting. She has taught as an adjunct faculty member in the graduate programs of Northeastern University & The University of Rhode Island. She currently mentors in the Babson College MBA Program.

Chaired a Diverse Group of Professionals in an advisory capacity to Brown University students who were interested in careers in business

Internal coach for vertically integrated home care organization. Responsibilities include coaching all new managers, and designing competency based leadership development programming. Coach for Executive team to facilitate the bringing together of two organizations under parent in 2002.

Designed and implemented interdisciplinary bio-psychosocial program to assess and meet the needs of multi-stressed families.

Coordinator for multi-site vertically integrated home health company.Implemented CQI/PI model and facilitated organization-wide accreditation initiatives

 Responsible for the overall direction, leadership, coordination and evaluation of customer services, including intake, home care coordination and physician relations, education and research, quality/performance assessment and improvement, occupational health, risk management and regulatory functions for the umbrella company and its affiliates. Serve as system facilitator for implementation of a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) plan to improve organizational effectiveness.

Responsible for overall direction, leadership, coordination and evaluation of customer services, occupational health, education and research, performance assessment and improvement, risk management and regulatory compliance functions. Navigator for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) implementation.