As the CEO and founder of business futurist consultancy GDR, Kate has more than 20 years of experience in trends affecting consumer behaviour, sharing her visionary insights around the world. She is the innovation partner to around 30 of the world’s largest consumer brands, supplying market leading consultancy and
professional speaking to P & G, Tesco, Waitrose, Target, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Costa Coffee, Coca-Cola and Lego.

As a motivational business futurist, Kate delivers compelling big-picture narratives making complex societal shifts and emerging technologies relatable for any audience. She advises on the future of customer experience, how marketing is evolving, and how the best of the best are using tech to adapt to changing demographics, environmental realities and cultural change.

Kate has been a professional speaker for several years, for any size of live audience, webinars, TV, radio, podcasts, panels, board advisory, client presentations. She has worked extensively with media organisations of all sizes, from national broadcasters to specialised trade publications.

Her expertise and skills are highly regarded globally, and she has been the trends keynote speaker for the world’s largest retail organisation, the National Retail Federation in the US for ten years running, due to consistently high feedback ratings.