Kate Philpot is Senior Director of Global Sales Enablement at Getty Images. She leads a team based across three continents and is responsible for company-wide Sales and Service training, coaching and enablement programmes, which support development of employee professional skills, product knowledge and systems understanding. Kate joined Getty Images in 2015 as Sales Training Manager for EMEA, after 15 years of sales, sales leadership and HR experience at Mars, Glaxo Smith Kline and Shell UK. She also spent several years as a consultant delivering commercial negotiation, sales skills, leadership and management training across Europe. She is a regular speaker at industry events and, as well as enablement, has a passion for all things DEI, being current Co-Chair of the Getty Images Multi-Culture Network ERG and sitting on the board of GTA Black Women in Tech, a not-for-profit global organisation dedicated to enabling black female talent to excel in tech and providing a pathway for companies to have access to talented black women.