Meet Kathy Keating: Technology Advisor to CEOs and Boards
I help CEOs and boards make confident technology and governance decisions that accelerate growth.
My work brings together decades of executive experience, systems thinking, and leadership frameworks to create clarity where it matters most.
A Systems Perspective on Leadership and Growth.
After three decades building and leading technology organizations, I’ve learned that success isn’t about doing more tasks, it’s about creating more effective alignment.
Great companies move quickly because their leadership systems are clear. The CEO, board, and technology leader operate with trust, shared focus, and a common understanding of where value comes from.
My work focuses on helping leaders build that clarity so they can turn complexity into confident decisions, sustainable systems, and measurable results.
Liquid: How CEOs & CTOs Unlock Momentum in Complex Systems
Co-authored by Kathy Keating
Liquid explores how CEOs and CTOs can turn organizational complexity into clarity, flow, and sustainable growth. These are the very principles that guide my advisory and coaching work today.
My Path to Strategic Advisory and Governance
My career has been defined by building, scaling, and transforming technology organizations, and by learning how alignment turns complexity into growth.
I’ve led technology strategy in high-growth SaaS, FinTech, and HealthTech companies, founded four ventures, and built commercial AI systems that sustained global market leadership for decades.
Along the way, I developed frameworks now used by thousands of leaders to help organizations deliver faster, strengthen collaboration, and lead with clarity. Frameworks include: CTO Levels, CTO Sentinel, and GEMs.
Today, I bring these insights into my work as an advisor, board-certified director, and executive coach. I partner with CEOs, CTOs, and boards to govern technology responsibly and lead, with confidence, through complexity.
A Framework for Clarity, Trust, and Results
Every engagement, whether with a CEO, board, or technology leader, begins with one goal: create alignment that leads to results.
My approach blends three decades of leadership experience within high growth companies, using lean, structured frameworks, that help organizations see the whole system, not just the symptoms.
Together, these frameworks create a common language for decision-making, trust, and accountability. Through this I help leadership teams move faster and lead with clarity.
CTO Sentinel ensures balance across the four essential outcomes every technology organization must drive: Speed, Stretch, Shield, and Sales.
CTO Levels defines what great technology leadership looks like at every stage of growth, helping CEOs and CTOs align around capability, maturity, and outcomes.
The GEMs framework turns strategy into motion by setting Goals, running Experiments, and Measuring outcomes that sustain progress. Its a great partner to OKRs.
Trusted by CEOs and Boards
"As CTO with one of our portfolio companies, Kathy stood out as an exceptional leader. She has a rare combination of deep technical mastery, organizational clarity, and calm, strategic judgment. She communicates complex ideas with precision and calm, inspires trust among investors and stakeholders and gives the board confidence in how technology decisions advance the company’s broader mission and outcomes.
Kathy led the thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, internal automation systems, and data-driven analytics that materially improved velocity, quality, and cost efficiency. These initiatives weren’t just experiments; they created durable process improvements and true competitive differentiation."
Andrew Boyd
Founder at Bramalea Partners
Zahir Khoja
Chief Executive Officer
Growth Stage FinTech
Erich Hugunin
Chief Revenue Officer
Series B // B2B2C SaaS
Contact Me
Location
Most of my clients are in the US, Canada, or Europe timezones. I am located near Denver and Boulder Colorado.
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Board & Governance
- Corporate Governance & Board Oversight
- Risk Management & Cybersecurity Expertise
- AI Ethics, Policy & Emerging Technology Oversight
- Strategic Planning & Growth Alignment
- Public, Private & Advisory Board Service
- Seeking Governance & Advisory Board opportunities
Executive & Advisory
- Business & Technology Strategy Alignment
- Organizational Design
- Leadership Development
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Technical Due Diligence
- Scaling SaaS & B2B Platforms
- Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
- Turnarounds & Rapid Growth
Technology & Innovation
- Complex Systems Thinking
- Artificial Intelligence & Data Strategy
- Architecture Oversight
- Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Operational Resilience & Risk Posture
- Regulatory Compliance (HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, CCPA)
- SaaS Scalability & Market Expansion