Kate McCombs PhD

Dr. Kate McCombs is a leadership professor, researcher, executive coach, and consultant who who believes better leadership starts from within.

As a professor of management at Samford University’s Brock School of Business, Kate teaches and researches leadership, self-leadership, identity, and the changing world of work. Her work bridges evidence-based leadership research with the very real challenges leaders face every day: pressure, uncertainty, competing priorities, difficult relationships, and the constant temptation to look outside ourselves for the answer.

Through her Root. Reset. Rise. framework, Kate helps leaders first get grounded in who they are, reset the patterns and mindsets that are no longer serving them, and rise into more intentional, sustainable leadership.

Before entering academia, Kate worked in the corporate world, and today she brings that combination of business experience, research, teaching, and coaching into her work with leaders and organizations.

She holds a Ph.D. in Business Management and lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband and their two young daughters.

*The Leader You Are Waiting For* is her first book.