Katherine (Kat) Daugherty

Kat Daugherty is an organizational change and project manager, Certified Scrum Master with 16 years in applications and infrastructure/security IT, service management and change management, 10 specifically in transition/change and program management. Kat does public speaking on Chanage Management, Lean Change, Organizational Change Management, Agile Transformations, Enterprise Agile Transitions and other change-focused topics.

She started her career with 6 years of development until Unisys promoted her into transitions leading up to global multilingual transition projects. She has successfully delivered programs over $10m, transitioned clients into delivered service models in pharmaceutical, natural resources, manufacturing, military, life sciences and media industries.  Her role at Unisys was transitioning clients after sales contracts were signed into an operational state who had purchased support from the IT network service provider. In this capacity she managed transitions for 3M, Red Cross US, Capital One Bank, NY Prison systems, SMS800, and Eramet Mining (Paris, FR). Since leaving Unisys she has delivered large-scale transitional programs for Rolls Royce, North America and Liberty Mutual, Commercial Insurance involving acquisitions and mergers of systems and tools and modernization of security practices in regulated environments.

As current Event and Venue Chairperson for the AgileIndy 2017 conference, she manages vendor cost and service agreements and negotiation, delegates all volunteer planning, publishing and printing coordination and other services. 

Outside of work, she runs event planning and newsletter communication for her HOA, schedules, trains and drives communication for the deacon serving committee at her church in Zionsville and mentors underprivileged high academic ability students seeking college admission and funding. 

She holds a BS in Business from Indiana Wesleyan University where she was the class representative and cum laude. She her graduate studies were with the Purdue University, Krannart School of Business for International Management Masters.