Katy is an educator, researcher, teacher, and coach dedicated to helping people and communities flourish. She founded The Flourishing Brain to bring together cutting-edge science and practical tools that support wellbeing, learning, and human thriving in everyday life.

Katy’s passion for human potential and flourishing began during her service in the British Army, where she witnessed how people could thrive even in the most challenging environments; they could also languish in the most comfortable circumstances.

This experience sparked a lifelong commitment to understanding how people learn, grow, and flourish, which she is lucky enough to pursue as a Deputy Head with responsibilies for performance, development, character and leadership of teachers and students at Wellington College.

Katy completed her MSc and DPhil at the University of Oxford, where she also lectures, supervises and examines on an Education MSc. Katy’s DPhil thesis expored flourishing and leadership.

Katy is an Associate Fellow and former Research Fellow of the Oxford Character Project (at The Department for Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford), where she co-directed the creation of Leading with Character, a free of charge global course accessed by thousands of learners worldwide in partnership with the Human Flourishing Program at The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. She is a Senior Fellow and co-chairs the Leadership for Flourishing group, part of the Flourishing Network hosted by The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard, and is co-editor of Leadership for Flourishing (Oxford University Press).

As an author, Katy has co-written Leader: Know, Love, and Inspire Your People - a Business Book Awards finalist - and Growing Minds: The Science of Raising Thriving Teens, with Dr Sara Lazar (a Harvard neuroscientist) and Sir Anthony Seldon, which translates wellbeing science, psychology, and neuroscience into accessible strategies for families. She also co-founded Global Social Leaders, a movement uniting young changemakers across more than 100 countries.

Beyond her professional work, Katy is a GB age-group triathlete and is formerly a national swimmer and GB synchronised swimmer. She lives with her husband Jeremy, their two sons (12 and 14), and an enthusiastic Golden Retriever.