The Fulfilled Leader with Jean Balfour · 2025-10-02 · 34 min
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr. Katie Best , a leadership coach, consultant, and author whose career has been shaped by asking one central question: what are the problems leaders struggle with most - and how can we solve them? Katie is the founder of Katie Best Associates , she teaches on the MBA Essentials Programme at the London School of Economics , and is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London . Most recently, she became an author with her new book The 10 Toughest Leadership Problems . Her journey into writing the book began, not in a quiet academic office, but in the middle of the pandemic. Katie began mapping out the recurring challenges she’d seen across decades of coaching and executive education. What she noticed was powerful: no matter the industry or seniority, leaders kept coming with the same tough problems. Out of that work, the SOLVE framework was born.
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