Kate Downing Khaled she/her/hers

Founder & Managing Director

Kate is the kind of leader who will believe in you even when you don’t believe in yourself. As a strategist and former community organizer, she’s an expert at listening to teams and leading them in transformative directions. She has the uncanny ability to see beyond the limitations others place on themselves to spot brilliance in the people around her. With nearly two decades of experience in philanthropy, community-based research and human-centered design, Kate knows the best services and products are designed by the people who use them. Named a Minneapolis and Saint Paul Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree and Tech 20 in 2022, Kate founded Imagine Deliver because she routinely saw systems operating in ways that excluded people from problem solving rather than meaningfully including them.

As Imagine Deliver’s managing director, Kate helps bold, intersectional leaders across healthcare, government, philanthropy, and financial services sectors eliminate that disconnect by showing them how to tap into the genius of their employees, communities, and customers to build more creative, inventive, and cutting edge solutions. With years of dedicated methodology, Imagine Deliver was selected as best for the world when it comes to strategy and insights in 2021.

kate@imaginedeliver.com