Learning & development specialist · Author
Kate Taylor
Helping leaders do their best work — at the office, and at home.
I’m a learning and development specialist at Okta, the world’s identity company, where I spend my days helping leaders do their best work. Alongside that, my partner, Darragh, and I founded ExamHero.ie, a study platform for teenagers — and I’m a soon to be published author.
At home, I’m mum to Felix and Hugo and stepmum to Rhys. Originally from the UK, with stints overseas, I’ve since settled in Ireland, which is where my first book, The Double Shift, was written. It publishes in May 2027.
About the book
Welcome to the double shift
At the office, you manage multi-million-pound budgets, handle market complexity, and keep a room of demanding stakeholders perfectly aligned. At home, you are currently being outgunned by a three-year-old who refuses to wear trousers.
Too many high-performing corporate parents believe they have to gear-shift between two completely different worlds, leaving their executive identity in the office. The result? We deploy all our strategic thinking, patience, and empathy at our desks, leaving only a desperate, reactive survival instinct for our families.
You don’t need an MBA to run a successful household. You just need to stop leaving your best leadership tools at the office.
In The Double Shift, leadership development specialist Kate Taylor reveals that your professional toolkit is actually the missing piece to your domestic chaos. Drawing on a decade of executive coaching and years spent stress-testing frameworks in the toddler trenches, Kate demonstrates how sophisticated business models, from Radical Candor to the Trust Equation, can be seamlessly adapted to shift the mental load, manage the human side of family crises, and build a highly functional team at home.
Publishing May 2027
About Kate
The same skills, in two very different rooms
Kate Taylor is a learning and development specialist at Okta, the world’s identity company. She has spent over a decade coaching executives and designing leadership programmes for organisations that take their people seriously.
Her work sits where behavioural science meets the messy reality of everyday leadership: how people actually make decisions under pressure, how trust is built and broken, and how the best frameworks quietly fall apart the moment life gets loud.
She is also a co-founder of a study platform for teenagers, helping young people learn in a way that fits how they actually think.
Featured on
The Judgment Gap: Why AI Moderation Still Needs Human OversightKate joins the Trust Issues podcast by WebPurify to discuss learning & development in the online safety world — drawing on her experience at TikTok and Okta — and where AI is taking the future of work.
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For speaking engagements, keynotes, interviews and podcasts, email me directly and I’ll come back to you personally.
Curious what a podcast appearance sounds like? Listen to Kate on Trust Issues, discussing L&D in the online safety world.