About Kathryn Pottruff

Kathryn Pottruff helps individuals and organizations drive profitable growth by improving how projects, programs, and portfolios are managed. Working side by side with clients, she helps establish processes, systems and tools that deliver value and build competitive advantage. Kathryn brings passion to her work, whether she is giving a keynote address, conducting a workshop, working with managers to bring about needed organizational change or guiding executives in making strategic decisions. She is well known for her ability to take a complex situation and quickly come up with a creative, well conceived plan of action that leads to effective and efficient execution. In short, Kathryn helps organizations improve bottom line results.

Kathryn actively participates in a variety of professional associations including the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS), the International Federation For Professional Speakers (IFFPS), the Project Management Institute (PMI), and the Company of Women Network. On a personal note, Kathryn belongs to the Women’s Investment Network (WIN), a group of fifteen women who set out five years ago to ‘learn and earn’ all they could by investing in the stock market.

A believer in lifelong learning, Kathryn earned her MSPM at The George Washington University, Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Windsor, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Queen’s University. She is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP®), and is a graduate of the prestigious Million Dollar Consulting College®. Additionally, Kathryn helps others learn by facilitating workshops in the Executive Development Divisions of twelve universities across Canada.

Each summer, Kathryn can be found canoeing on the Restigouche River in a remote part of northern New Brunswick with friends she met in a workshop several years ago.