Oliver Kate
Transform
Transform is Oliver Kate's professional dimension. It exists for individuals navigating their next chapter and for organisations facing their most significant moments of change. Whether you need a coach, thinking partner, an expert voice or senior leadership on the ground, Oliver Kate brings almost three decades of global experience to the room. The work is precise, personal and built around your specific situation.
Transform
Senior expertise. Delivered your way.
One Off - As needed
Coaching
For executives and leaders navigating what comes next. Whether you are facing a high-stakes decision, a career transition, a leadership challenge or a moment where something needs to change, these sessions create the space, the structure and the clarity to find your own formula forward.
Every engagement begins with a complimentary 30-minute discovery call to ensure the fit is right and the approach is tailored to you.
Short - Medium term
Advisory
For organisations and leaders who need senior expertise, fast. Decades of experience across business and digital transformation, AI adoption, leadership, operating models, PMO, people and culture, available without the overhead of a long engagement. Sharp, direct, actionable.
Engagements typically run from a single day to a few weeks. For when you need someone who has seen it before and can help you move faster.
Medium - Long term
Interim
For organisations that need senior leadership on the ground, not on the periphery. Embedded within your team for a defined period, part-time or full-time, bringing the experience, authority and judgment to lead transformation, technology change or a critical programme from the front.
Engagements are scoped and structured from the outset to ensure clarity of mandate, outcomes and timeline.
AI Thought Leadership
Original thinking on AI and the human experience.
Human One is Oliver Kate's thought leadership and original IP practice. It sits at the intersection of human intelligence and AI, asking the questions that boards, leaders and organisations need to be asking now. Not with fear. Not with hype. With clarity.
Human One Oliver Kate
What happens to identity when machines outperform humans? What happens to trust when no one can tell what is real? What happens to purpose when work disappears?
Human One maps the terrain where these questions live, across the full landscape of human experience that AI is reshaping simultaneously.
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Nothing is settled. Everything is worth exploring.
The human dimension of an AI World
Related Yet Distinct
For larger mandates, there is ALTERIA.
When an engagement requires a dedicated team rather than a sole senior executive, Kate co-founded Alteria Inc. with Luc Boon. Alteria delivers integrated transformation programmes, expertly managing complex change at scale. Oliver Kate and Alteria are legally and commercially separate but deeply aligned in philosophy.
The experience behind the work
25+ Years. Six industries. Boards, executive committees and CIOs across six continents.
25+
Years of executive transformation leadership
€120M+
Budget accountability at peak
950+
People led across multiple regions
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Industries across global organisations
Organisations
Publishing
Nature Publishing Group
IT Project & Development Manager
1999 — 2008
ARUP
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Senior IT
Project Manager
​2008 - 2013
Design & Engineering
CB&I / McDermott
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International Director, Project & JV IT
2013 - 2018
EPC Oil & Gas
Royal BAM
Group​
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Global Director, IT Strategy & Delivery
​2018 - 2022
Construction
Signify
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Head of Digital Delivery
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2022 - 2023
Tech/Manufacturing
Independent
OLIVER KATE (NEE COVALE)
Founder & Director - Executive Coaching, Advisory & Interim Leadership Practice
​2023 - Present
CONSULTING
ORBIA
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Transformation & Integration Lead
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2024 - 2026
Manufacturing
ALTERIA Inc
Co-Founder & Director - Transformation Consultancy
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2024 - Present
CONSULTING