Story-pod with Nischala: The Shero Diaries with Kathryn Payne - a podcast by HFS

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Kathryn Payne

Kathryn has recently retired from Reach Enterprises, Inc., an independent consulting firm which started by her when she was 35. She has been in the management consulting industry for 30 years, mostly focused on Oil, Gas and Chemicals.

Prior to this, Kathryn was Vice President at Capgemini. Her specialty is in change management and multinational projects where she enjoyed leading diverse groups to achieve complex goals.

In her long career, she has worked with companies like Exxon Mobil, Celanese, LynodelBasell.

She lives in Tennessee and enjoys hiking, water skiing, yoga, and art.

This podcast has 3 sections

1. Know your shero – in which we talk about backstories around the influence of family, upbringing, education and your career journey.


2. Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Skills - in which we talk unfiltered on how to build diverse and inclusive organizations.


3. Rapid Fire – in which we hear quick and quirky responses from our featured shero.

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