Katie Foulkes OLY
Performance Architect. Researcher. Advisor.
Katie’s success stems from an insatiable appetite to learn, an instinctive understanding of team synergy and a ‘will to win’. As a dual Olympian she developed a reputation for driving elite performance and doing everything in her power to ensure both individual and team success. Today, she brings this same approach to every client challenge.
About Katie.
Katie has spent over twenty years working where strategy, people, and performance intersect — across technology, government, retail, and sport. As a dual Olympian and national rowing coach, she brings lived experience of what high-stakes performance actually requires. As a researcher and organisational leader, she understands the evidence base and the system conditions that make it possible.
She is the creator of PRE — a performance readiness architecture for senior leaders and their teams, and for high performing individuals beyond the organisation, from elite athletes to professional dancers, built around the distinction between capability and readiness, and what it actually takes to perform when the moment arrives.
Katie currently serves as Director at the Australian Sports Commission, leading the development of coaches and officials across approximately four million participants in Australian sport. She is a Non-Executive Director of the Australian Ballet School, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne Faculty of Business and Economics, and has lectured in the MBA at Sydney Business School and Federation University.
MSc Coaching Psychology, University of Sydney · Associate, Harvard Medical School Institute of Coaching · Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne · Director, Australian Sports Commission · Non-Executive Director, Australian Ballet School · OLY
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Honorary & Ambassador Roles.
Honorary Fellow – University of Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics. Awarded in 2023 in recognition of significant enterprise contribution in the domains of leadership and high performing teams.
Granted the use of the post-nominal letters OLY. Recognition of contribution to sport and competing at two Olympics
Member of the Enterprise Specialist Network and Advisory Board. Selected in 2023. Tasked with reviewing and advising on executive education offerings from Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
Member Australian Olympians Association. Appointed in 2023. 1 of 15 Members selected from all Australian Olympians.
Mentor Australian Olympic Committee. Supporting elite athletes to continue to experience success in all of the seasons of their life (in sport and beyond). 1 of 10 mentors chosen from field of 100’s of Olympians.
Qualifications, Accreditations & Affiliations.
Master of Science in Coaching Psychology, University of Sydney
Executive Coaching Supervision, Oxford Brookes University
Team Coaching Practitioner, Global Team Coaching Institute
Profiling Tools/Accreditations - The Leadership Circle (TLC), VIA Strengths, Mental Toughness (MTQ48), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Team Management Systems (TMS)
Post Graduate qualifications in Psychology, Deakin University
Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne
Member of the University of Sydney Coaching & Mentoring Association (USCMA)
Member of Association of Coaching (AC)
Member of the Institute of Coaching (IOC), Affiliate of Harvard Medical School