Ms. Mayer founded KC Mayer Consulting, Inc. in 2003 to provide sophisticated and customized leadership development solutions for Fortune 100 to 1000 companies to drive their efforts to attract, develop and retain emerging and high potential business leaders. KC Mayer Consulting works with clients in the United States and Europe in competitive industries ranging from investment banking to pharmaceuticals, with a special emphasis on women in the workplace and diversity issues. KC Mayer clients include Credit Suisse, Citigroup Europe, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Symbol Technologies, Glaxo Smith Kline, Henry Schein, United Entertainment Media, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Selective Insurance, among others.

Ms. Mayer has a proven 20-year track record of coaching business professionals, guiding companies through transformative change, and designing learning systems to transition professionals into new roles, develop leaders, enhance team dynamics, strengthen core competencies, and change behavior. She began her business career in the highly demanding and competitive investment banking and business consulting industries where she honed her unique approach to leadership and developed a proprietary strategic leadership model called Collaborative Competition.™  Ms. Mayer's vision of competition offers clients a strategy to maximize the value of their greatest asset-human capital-to the fullest potential by building on strengths and through collaboration, developing areas that need improvement. It is a win-win strategy. Ms. Mayer wants everyone to find their competitive sensibilities and calibrate them to their greatest competitive advantage.  Ms. Mayer's passion for competition dates back to her career as a ranked junior tennis player. She was a top ranked amateur tennis player for 25 years. This is where Ms. Mayer first discovered the power of learning from your competition rather than fearing it. 

She has recently completed a book on how women can succeed in the most competitive industries and enjoy it, Collaborative Competition ™: A Woman's Guide to Succeeding by Competing.  Kathryn has interviewed successful and powerful women around the country.