PROFILE
Katarina, the founder of KHD Consulting International is a cross-cultural trainer, career coach and public speaker with extensive experience in global career development and cross-cultural competence training working with both individuals and organizations. She has worked with United Nations Development Program (United Nations Local Expatriate Spouse Association), and Swarovski Crystal as a sub-contractor for the Interchange Institute.
Previously she worked at the United Nations Secretariat managing global staff mobility and career development programs and at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in the Office of Career Services as Assistant Director overseeing the international internship programs and as an Adjunct Professor in Career Development.
Katarina grew up in Finland and is fluent in Swedish and Finnish in addition to English and some French. In Finland she worked at Åbo Akademi University in adult education and training before moving to the USA to pursue her dream of an international life and career. In addition to Finland and the USA she has also lived in France
Katarina, an avid reader herself, has published several articles in Finnish magazines and newspapers on living in the US as a modern immigrant. In her early 20s she published a book in art history documenting a local wedding tradition from the 16th and 17th centuries.
As a passionate life-long learner she has a Masters Degree in Social Science; Certifications include: Adult Career Planning and Placement from NYU; Cross-Cultural Competence from the Interchange Institute in Cambridge, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator. She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling with a focus on cross-cultural counseling at Iona College.