Crack the Code on Collaboration.
The world’s leading authority on highly collaborative win-win relationships, helping Microsoft, P&G, FedEx, Dell, NASA, and the United Nations change the way work gets done.
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Kate Vitasek is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on highly collaborative win-win business relationships, with award-winning research featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNN, and NPR. In 2025 she received the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award.
As a researcher and faculty member at the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business, Kate developed the Vested business model, a proven methodology that’s helped organizations like Microsoft, P&G, FedEx, Dell, McDonald’s, Accenture, and the United Nations build collaborative partnerships that go far beyond transactional handshakes.
She is the author of eight books based on her research, including Vested Outsourcing and The Vested Way. Her keynotes turn complex academic frameworks into practical, immediately implementable strategies for organizations ready to move from win-lose to win-win.
When Kate speaks, she calls out the best in her audience, inspiring them to defy the status quo and shift how they build business relationships. Whether speaking to a hundred or to thousands, her customized talks deliver one consistent message: 1+1 should equal 11.
Every keynote is built on the same conviction: collaboration is a discipline, not a personality trait, and it can be learned. Each runs 45 to 75 minutes and can be tailored to your audience.
Changing the Way Work Gets Done to Achieve Remarkable Results
We all want to be better collaborators. The problem is most of us don’t know where to start. Instead of 1+1=11, we fall into a trap where 1+1=2, or worse.
The Future of Work is Collaborative
The world’s most complex challenges, AI disruption, talent gaps, supply shocks, can’t be solved alone. The future of work isn’t about Me. It’s about We.
Kate Vitasek’s speaking demo reel, turning rigorous academic research into clear, immediately actionable strategies for boardrooms and conference halls.
It’s rare in any industry that you find a speaker as passionate, thought-provoking and engaging as Kate Vitasek.
Kate has the unique talent to make difficult concepts simple. After her session, the team was energized and enthusiastic about incorporating her methods into their work.
We wanted a presentation on collaboration that would be both engaging and insightful for a mixed group of business, education and elected officials. Kate delivered!
When Kate spoke at our general session, we got a one-word Tweet from an audience member, BRILLIANT!
Kate calls the best in each of us forward, inspiring us all to change the way we build relationships in business and beyond.
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