About Us | Global Citizen, LLC

Global Citizen, LLC is a consulting and coaching firm that works in the United States and internationally to strengthen leaders’ capacity to effect organizational and social transformation by advancing public health, human rights, global competence, equity, diversity, and inclusion and delivering mutually-beneficial and high-impact results for a better world.

We envision a world in which people and the institutions they operate act as globally-competent citizens with awareness, understanding, sensitivity and ethical practices to advance public health, human rights and intercultural relations and effect social and organizational transformation for the good of all.

President and Founder

Katherine L. Turner, MPH is the Founder and President of Global Citizen, LLC strategic consulting, coaching, training, and transformation firm. She is an organizational transformation consultant, executive leadership coach, trainer, keynote speaker, board and thought leader, and social change agent who has worked in English, French, and Dutch in more than 50 countries spanning five continents.

As Adjunct Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, Katherine teaches graduate courses on leadership, systems and design thinking, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), intercultural competence, global health, and related topics and mentors the next generation of global leaders. She has published articles and videos on leadership, intersectional DEIB, racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ inclusion and equity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and authored the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Intercultural Competence in Leadership chapter in the Leadership in Practice: Essentials for Public Health and Healthcare Leaders textbook that is taught in universities and higher education programs worldwide.

Katherine graduated with honors with a B.A. in psychology and certificate in women's studies from Duke University and a master of public health from UNC-Chapel Hill. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer and national trainer in Togo, West Africa, worked in senior leadership positions at the Durham County Department of Public Health and Ipas, a global abortion, sexual, and reproductive justice organization, and founded her consulting firm in 2011.

Katherine’s other current leadership roles include serving on the Duke LGBTQ+ Alum Board as DEIB Committee Co-Chair, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s N.C. Advisory Committee, and N.C. Coalition for Global Competitiveness. She has founded and led the board of directors of nonprofit organizations and won academic and industry awards for excellence in leadership, education, public health, and advocacy. She was selected as How Women Lead’s Women Leaders for the World Fellow in 2023-24.

Global Citizen, LLC is a woman- and LGBTQ+-owned small business that collaborates with leaders working across all sectors in the United States and internationally to provide customized, DEIB-centered, and high-impact solutions. We develop authentic, inclusive leadership, conduct strategic assessments, visioning, planning, and execution, and align vision, mission, values, systems, strategies, and culture to effect high-functioning teams, organizational transformation, and social impact for a better world.

Areas of expertise

Global public, women's and LGBTQ+ health and human rights
Transformational organizational and leadership development
Strategic program planning and partnership cultivation to address disparities
Business development with public, private and individual donors
Program design and management
Technical leadership and innovation in evidence-based practices
Ethics, cultural competence and values clarification at organizational and individual levels
Capacity strengthening, including training, coaching, facilitation, mentoring and curriculum development
Global movement building, communications and networking strategies
Assessments, monitoring, evaluation and participatory, applied research
Fluent English and French and conversational Dutch

Curriculum Vitae

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Client Engagements

Global Citizen, LLC partners with a diverse network of seasoned consultants to assist nonprofit organizations, foundations and other funders, universities, corporations, government institutions and other client partners to conduct strategic assessments and planning and facilitate organizational and leadership capacity strengthening to deliver mission-driven and high-impact results. Client engagements include:

Duke University: Global health, social entrepreneurship and activism seminars and panels
Durham Technical Community College: Global competence training
EAB International School, Dakar, Senegal: Intercultural exchange and education
Emory University: Global sexual and reproductive health seminars
George Watts Montessori Magnet Elementary School: Global awareness and intercultural education
Humanitarian aid agencies: Organizational assessments and leadership capacity strengthening
Infinity Diamond Club's We Are One Conference: Personal empowerment workshops
IntraHealth International: Organizational assessments, values clarification and leadership development
Ipas: Organizational assessments, leadership development and skills-building workshops
LGBTQ Center of Durham: Health activism panel and community dialogues
Marie Stopes International (MSI): Training assessment and design
NC State University's Global Health Initiative: Global competence and ethical engagement seminars
Population Reference Bureau (PRB): Program design, strategic partnerships and communications
Triangle Global Health Consortium: Global-local health partnerships, program planning, skills-building workshops, leadership coaching
Triangle Organization Development Network: User-centered design workshop
UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Global Initiatives: Global health orientation panels
UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health: Courses, presentations, panels, faculty development and student advising
UNC-Chapel Hill Minority Health Conference: Global competence and ethical engagement seminar