Kate Hammer

Founder Kate Hammer uses leadership principles -- including active listening, analytical reframing, and storytelling -- to devise marketing campaigns that change what others choose.

An experienced marketing communications consultant and natural storyteller,  she has worked in a wide variety of commercial, arts and NGO settings for nearly 20 years. With a passion for innovation, informed decision-making and exquisite design, Kate seeks out companies that make an enduring difference to their clients and beneficiaries – particularly in the fields of business information, industrial technology and professional services.

Before founding throughline, Kate ran PR campaigns for Dun & Bradstreet and technology upstarts including Arieso, Sonaptic and RVR Systems, and advised business information companies Ascend, Cantos and the World Economic Forum, and venture capitalist Add Partners.

Previously, she worked in-house as marketing manager for Legion, an early stage venture launching a computer simulation system for optimising how public spaces are designed and operated – working with the board to create and establish the brand; sell in, win and deliver optimisation projects on three continents; and seedbed alliances around the globe with world-class engineering firms. Before joining the commercial sector, she worked in education and behaviour change with leading NGOs Center for Population Options (now Advocates for Youth), Population Services International and Business Exchange on AIDS and Development.

Throughout her career, Kate has translated across cultures, sectors and professional disciplines.  Her 1:1 interviews number well over one hundred, ranging from GCSE drama students to senior business leaders in industry-leading corporations. She has also published widely: ghostwriting for industry clients in the trade press, writing theatre reviews and even a biography for young people about rock star Tina Turner, and authoring articles in peer-reviewed academic journals.

• 1989 Brown University with a B.A. Hons in Semiotics
• 1990-1992 actor training, Catholic University of America MFA, New York University Graduate Acting
• 1998 University of Surrey (Roehampton) PhD in Drama and Theatre Studies