Celebrating Katherine Riddoch – Our Newest Expert ECD Leadership Consultant

Congratulations to Katherine Riddoch for becoming an official Expert ECD Leadership Consultant!

Reaching this latest milestone on your ECD Certified Pathway is no small feat, full of lessons and impact that ripple so much further than the leaders and teams you serve.

Katherine’s work with leaders is the kind of facilitation that shifts people into better conversations, and into new levels of awareness - emotional and rational! She’s using The Emotional Culture Deck as a lens for emotional insight, behavioural change, and culture-shaping leadership that inspires so many of us to do more than we thought was possible. 

Here are just a few gems from her recent reflections as she unlocked her latest ECD Certified Pathway badge:

- “I’ve shifted from facilitating the tool to facilitating awareness.”
- “Emotional leadership starts with awareness, not action.”
- “The quality of reflection determines the quality of insight.”

In one standout moment, she shared the story of a leadership participant who began by saying “Emotions aren’t my thing”… and ended the session realising that emotions are everyone’s thing. That kind of breakthrough doesn’t happen by accident, it happens because of the care, clarity, and courageous space-holding people like Katherine bring into the room.

As Katherine puts it "For people-oriented leaders, this work often feels intuitive. For those with a stronger focus on logic or results, using The Emotional Culture Deck provides a shared vocabulary and structure to interpret what they feel but may not have recognised. It turns something that can seem intangible into usable insight, helping all leaders approach emotion with curiosity rather than discomfort.”

Katherine, congratulations again! You continue to model the kind of leadership we believe in. Intentional. Reflective. Emotional & human. 

Thank you for the way you show up for this work and for our Elephant Rider community. Our ECD world is richer with you in it.

Learn more about our ECD Certified Pathways and what it takes to become an Expert ECD Leadership Consultant like Katherine here.