Hi! I’m Kathy Miller Perkins.
Before founding Miller Consultants, I had a wide variety of jobs: waitress, nursing home attendant, factory worker (boxing beer bottles on a packing line), teacher, selling wigs at Kmart. However, no matter the nature of my work, my engagement in it depended on the culture of the organization:
Did the organization live the values they promoted?
Did they know how to measure the impact of their people strategies?
Did they attract ~ and keep ~ talented people?
Did the customers think the organization’s promises were authentic?
Too often the answer was “no.”
My work experiences made me want to make a difference in the work lives of others.
I care about how people experience their work. I believe that all of us should understand our value to our organizations and take pride in our contributions to the betterment of our world.
I believe in the significance of company purpose, the capacity for leadership in everyone, the power of positive cultures and the promise of transformation.
I realized that I wanted to translate these beliefs into action. I wanted to show organizations that creating a vibrant culture, one that embeds purpose beyond profits, leads to greater, sustainable success.
So I founded Miller Consultants.
More about me here and on LinkedIn. But Miller Consultants is so much more than just me…
Miller Consultants
For over 30 years, Miller Consultants has had the privilege of working with some of the most admired and well-known organizations around the world, including:
Toyota, Brown-Forman, Nestle, Dow, P&G, BC Hydro, Nedbank, Valvoline, National Center for Family Literacy, IBM.
We collaborate with our clients to build organizational cultures that truly support their purpose, values, and strategies. We join forces with them to engage their employees and to inspire innovation. And we assist them with strategies for navigating change while, at the same time, helping them develop stronger change-related capabilities.
We have seen how companies succeed when purpose beyond profits is embedded in their culture. People thrive when they understand how their work contributes to the company’s success and to society’s well-being.
And now, over 30 years later, we are thankful to our past clients for allowing us to help them make their business ~ and society ~ better. But more importantly, we are excited at the prospect of helping new clients do the same for the next 30 years.
The Miller Consortium
In the beginning, Miller Consultants operated with a traditional employment structure. However, about 20 years ago we pioneered a flexible, virtual organizational model by building a collaborative team of experts, a consortium. This consortium model allows Miller Consultants to gather the very best experts from around the world and engage them with improving your organization’s culture.
Even though we aren’t all located in the same building, city or even country, make no mistake – we are a tight group. Our shared purpose, compatible values, and positive culture bind us together. We are a consortium of the best and brightest organizational innovators you will ever find.
We help our clients become more competitive by developing a sustainable culture.
Find out how we can help you become more competitive.
Meet The Other Members of The Miller Consortium
Kathi Irvine
I believe in the critical role of leaders in organizational success. My love is to help senior and middle leaders increase their impact personally and organizationally during times of change. More about Kathi here.
Geoff Powter
I am fascinated by the role of risk-taking in organizational and personal change, an interest that flows naturally from a life spent in the high mountains of the world. As an avid climber living in the Canadian Rockies, I have combined this passion with academic and journalistic examinations of the place of risk in our lives. More about Geoff here.
Meredith Lepley
I am devoted to helping companies use research to solve business problems. I seek to use my deep knowledge of psychology to enable people to engage in their work and embrace positive change. More about Meredith here.
Leslie Hunt
I like to work alongside a client’s technical subject matter experts to analyze their jobs then take the output from these interviews to create job training curricula that produce competent, confident individual contributors. More about Leslie here.
Ben Nelson
My goal is to help businesses become profitable and grow through employee engagement and credible leadership. More about Ben here.
Judy Ellis
I help people become better leaders, create more effective teams, and inspire their organizations to produce great results amidst uncertain, complex, and ambiguous conditions. I am passionate about facilitating learning to help build more resilient, diverse, respectful, responsive and inclusive teams where challenges are confidently met and people deliver for the business and for each other. More about Judy here.
Katrin Muff
I am a thought leader in the transformative space of sustainability and responsibility. I am a slightly impatient, highly efficient, pragmatic entrepreneur and scientist. And I dedicate my time to make the difference I can for this world. I am passionate about creating relevant content and processes by working with companies and projects, often in extensive co-creation processes, and by prototyping new approaches and solution real-time in business and society. More about Katrin here.
Cil Stephens
There is nothing I could feel more passionate about as a career other than being a Secretary/Administrate Assistant. My job here at Miller Consultants has allowed me to meet so many wonderful people. The associates I have worked with have been the highlights of my working career. I am so grateful for the opportunity I received many years ago to come on board with Miller Consultants. To me, it has been a wonderful educational opportunity.
The Miller Consortium is small yet mighty
We can expand our scope and scale our work for you by joining with our larger partner organizations.
GHD
GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services consulting and engineering companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation.
Miller Consultants joins with GHD to provide change-management services to clients to support GHD’s technical advisory services. For example, our team recently provided the tools and people-related strategies in support of an asset management initiative that GHD carried out for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Bridges and Tunnels. The focus of the initiative was to design work to become more customer-focused and proactive. Our strategies included assessing the culture to determine how to leverage the strengths and address issues that could become barriers to change. We also helped with communications strategies to support the changes.
Gresham Smith
Gresham Smith is a full-service architecture, engineering and design firm specializing in solutions for life’s most essential infrastructure and institutions. They specialize in markets including Aviation, Building Engineering, Corporate + Urban Design, Healthcare, Industrial, Land Planning, Transportation Water + Environment.
The Miller team works with Gresham Smith in the early stages of projects to assess the cultural needs and desires of their clients. For example, we worked with Gresham Smith to assist Lifeway Christian Resources to identify the culture that they envisioned to best support their mission as they planned for building a new corporate campus. Gresham Smith always designs with corporate culture and brand in mind.
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric are global specialists in energy management and automation.
Miller Consultants works with Schneider Electric on sustainability-related projects. We support Schneider Electric by performing culture assessments and developing strategies to ensure that the client’s organizational culture will support their sustainability strategies. For example, we partnered with Schneider to assist Brown-Forman in developing an environmental sustainability strategy. Our role was to assess the current culture and then identify how to strengthen it to support their sustainability-related goals.
KKS Advisors
KKS Advisors is an advisory services firm helping clients find innovative solutions that enable the creation of more sustainable business models and communities.
Miller Consultants teams with KKS advisors to help clients align their cultures with their sustainability strategies. For example, we worked with KKS to serve a small investment firm that desired to develop a stronger combined ESG and CSR strategy for the future. We took the lead on this project since they were emphasizing the need for organizational alignment with their new direction. Our role was to assess the organizational culture and to collaborate with an internal team to establish changes needed to carry out the emerging sustainability strategy and achieve their goals. In addition, our role was to help them develop and implement a culture change strategy.
