Katie Hilborn is a 7x award-winning humanitarian, global educator, and master storyteller whose work has transformed communities across five continents and reshaped how organizations understand motivation in the workplace. Drawing on two decades spent leading teams through crisis zones, classrooms, and cross-cultural environments, Katie teaches leaders how to ignite intrinsic motivation through purpose, belonging, resilience, and identity.
From coordinating life-or-death earthquake missions in the Himalayas to building the Girls INpowerment Center that helped drive trafficking to zero, Katie has mobilized thousands and built systems of resilience that continue to scale globally. Her lived experience—surviving early trauma, navigating adoption, and rising through extreme adversity—gives her a rare lens into what truly drives people to perform under pressure.
Recognized alongside the Dalai Lama and Jane Goodall, Katie translates field-tested human motivation into practical, high-impact workplace frameworks that elevate performance, engagement, and meaning across diverse teams.
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