Katherine Crowley

Katherine Crowley

Crowley attended university where she received a Master's degree in Counseling and Consulting Psychology.

Katherine Crowley is a workplace consultant, author, and psychotherapist who has made a name for herself in exploring the emotional dynamics in professional environments.

For more than 30 years, she has been working as a psychotherapist, she has become known for her expertise in life coaching and career therapy. Over the years, she has assisted many professionals in aligning their professional goals and personal dreams.

Alongside Kathi Elster, the business strategist, Katherine Crowley became the co-founder of the consulting firm K Squared Enterprises based in New York. Together, they came up with an approach that combines practical business strategies and psychological insight to deal with challenges at the workplace.

Crowley and Elster have also co-authored several influential works to provide readers with tools for setting boundaries, managing complex relationships at the workplace, and developing healthier interactions as a professional.

Katherine Crowley has provided insights that have been featured in the likes of Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. These features have been on anything from strategies to enhance personal development to enhancing workplace dynamics.

As a coach and consultant, Katherine offers both virtual and in-person sessions for people needing career therapy, adult development, and life coaching. She usually equips clients with tools for dealing with emotional blocks to success, vision development, and career assessment.
In 2006, Crowley teamed up with Kathi Elster to publish Working With You Is Killing Me.

In the work, she helps her readers deal with emotional traps and toxic coworkers by making use of a four-step strategy to unhook verbally, mentally, and physically, and using business tools.

She explains different types of personalities and the different strategies for dealing with them. It also explores the many roles employees take on, such as Hero or Martyr, which often result in a lot of stress in the workplace.

It is this guide on how to improve work relationships, reduce emotional fatigue, and set boundaries.

Three years later, Crowley and Elster published the guide Working for You Isn’t Working for Me. This is a guide for employees who are dealing with difficult superiors.

The authors posit a four-step process of detecting, detaching, depersonalizing, and dealing with the actions of your superior. Making use of real-life examples, it also offers ways of dealing with different types of managers, including control freaks and chronic critics.

All in all, it is a work full of strategies to help employees deal with the challenges of difficult superiors to ensure they continue to advance in their careers even as they experience personal growth.

Continuing with her trend of publishing every three years, Katherine Crowley published her next novel Mean Girls at Work in 2012.
In this work, they explore the intricacies of female relationships at work. From Subtle passive aggression and overt bullying, they provide practical ways to deal with mean girl behaviors.

In addition to a five-step process, they also emphasize reflection so that readers can be better able to recognize and, in time, change their own bad behaviors at work.

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4. Gillian Flynn, author of: Gone Girl.
5. Shari Lapena, author of: The Couple Next Door.

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