KB Network
Kathleen Bigsby, PhD
Behavioral Health Executive • Consultant • Clinician • Professor • Mentor
With more than three decades of behavioral healthcare, executive leadership, clinical, and academic experience, Kathleen partners with individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations navigating growth, transition, and meaningful transformation.
Your Future is
Yours
to Design
Welcome to KB Network | Where Leadership, Human Development & Behavioral Health Expertise Converge.
Kathleen Bigsby, PhD brings a distinctive combination of executive leadership, clinical expertise, systems thinking, and human development to her work with individuals and organizations.
Over more than 30 years in behavioral healthcare administration and clinical practice—including more than 17 years in corporate and regional CEO leadership—Kathleen has guided leaders, clinicians, teams, and organizations through periods of growth, transition, challenge, and opportunity.
Her work is grounded in the belief that sustainable performance requires more than strategy alone. Meaningful transformation occurs when leadership, organizational systems, personal values, and human behavior are understood together.
Through KB Network, Kathleen creates collaborative, individualized engagements designed to strengthen clarity, performance, resilience, communication, and alignment while supporting purposeful and sustainable growth.
30+ Years
Behavioral Health Administration & Clinical Experience
17+ Years
Corporate & Regional CEO Leadership
Professor & Educator
Academic Experience in Psychology & Human Development
Ways to Work With Kathleen
Kathleen's work is tailored to the needs of each individual, leadership team, or organization. Engagements range from focused consultation and mentorship to long-term leadership and organizational development.
Strategic consultation for executives, leadership teams, and organizations navigating performance, culture, growth, complex transitions, and organizational change.
Areas of focus may include executive performance, leadership development, team dynamics, communication, organizational culture, strategic alignment, and sustainable transformation.
Customized engagements
6–12 month engagements
Weekly individual sessions
Half-day/full-day intensives
Team programs
Workshops
Project-based engagements
Retainer engagements
U.S. and international availability
Individualized mentorship for executives, emerging leaders, professionals, and high achievers seeking greater clarity, alignment, resilience, and effectiveness in their personal and professional lives.
Kathleen's approach integrates leadership experience, human development, clinical insight, and practical strategy.
Speaking engagements, workshops, leadership intensives, executive retreats, and facilitated group experiences focused on leadership, organizational culture, resilience, collaboration, purpose, and behavioral healthcare.
Purposeful Living. Extraordinary Achievement.
Achievement and fulfillment are not always the same.
High performance can create professional success while leaving individuals and organizations disconnected from the values, relationships, and sense of purpose that make success sustainable.
Kathleen's work focuses on the intersection between performance and meaning—helping people identify underlying patterns, strengthen self-awareness, clarify what matters most, and align their actions with their values and ambitions.
Whether the work involves an executive navigating a pivotal decision, a team experiencing organizational change, or an individual entering a new chapter, the objective is not simply incremental improvement.
It is meaningful, sustainable transformation.
The future is yours to design. We are here to help you build it with clarity, confidence, and impact.
Leadership in Practice. Results That Matter.
Leadership Development & Collaboration“Kathleen brings a rare combination of clinical brilliance, executive leadership, deep integrity, and genuine heart-centered care. Her ability to help navigate vision, leadership dynamics, communication, growth, and alignment is exceptional.”
— Dan Petersen
Co-Founder, Redefine Wellness & TreatmentTeam Development & Performance“Dr. Bigsby brought experience, expertise, and insight into the process while facilitating reflective thought, conflict resolution, and generative discussion of strategic goals.”
— Kathleen Gaffney-Babb
President & CEO, Helio Health / Helio Health FoundationExecutive Performance“Dr. Bigsby's professionalism, ethics, and insight into the inner workings of behavioral health treatment and organizational behavior are outstanding.”
— CEO, Behavioral Healthcare OrganizationInsights from Kathleen
Kathleen writes about leadership, behavioral healthcare, human development, organizational culture, resilience, transformation, and purposeful living.
The High Achiever's Paradox
Why Success Doesn't Always Bring Peace
Explore how beliefs, identity, achievement, and self-awareness influence the experience of success.
Leader-ing
Why Effective Leadership Is an Action, Not a Position
A perspective on adaptive, action-oriented leadership and the ongoing responsibility to support growth in both leaders and teams.
Transformative Collaboration
Building Resilient Leaders & Teams
Explore how communication, trust, adaptability, and shared purpose strengthen organizations navigating change.
Meet Kathleen Bigsby, PhD
Kathleen Bigsby, PhD is a behavioral health executive, clinician, professor, consultant, and mentor with more than 30 years of experience in behavioral healthcare administration and clinical practice.
Her career includes more than 17 years in corporate and regional CEO leadership, alongside work in organizational development, clinical systems, education, mentorship, and professional consulting.
Kathleen's interdisciplinary background allows her to approach leadership and transformation through multiple lenses—organizational, clinical, strategic, and human.
She works with individuals, executives, teams, and organizations seeking greater clarity, stronger leadership, healthier systems, and more meaningful, sustainable results.
Experience Across Leadership, Clinical Practice & Academia
Pepperdine UniversityAdjunct Professor of Psychology
Syracuse UniversityAdjunct Professor of Human Development
Doctoral and graduate education
Executive Leadership30+ years of corporate & clinical experience
Media & InterviewsIncluding VoyageLA and additional features