About Our Founder, Katherine Radeka
Katherine Radeka is the Founder and Managing Director of Rapid Learning Cycles BV and Rapid Learning Cycles Inc. In 2025, she relocated to the Netherlands to support a growing European base of clients.
She has built a global community of over 2,000 Rapid Learning Cycles Certified® Professionals who are actively using the framework to get their best ideas to market faster in more than 800 companies.
She has worked with companies on every continent except Antarctica, and in industries from aerospace to medical devices, pharmaceuticals to consumer electronics and alternative energy.
In 2015, Katherine published the first edition of The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product. Her book High Velocity Innovation was published in Fall 2019 by Career Press. Her most recent book, When Agile Gets Physical, was published on April 6th 2022 and was co-authored with long-time colleague Kathy Iberle.
Katherine has climbed seven of the tallest peaks in the Cascade Mountains and spent ten days alone on the Pacific Crest Trail until an encounter with a bear convinced her that she needed a change in strategic direction.
Her Impact
Katherine has personally supported dozens of teams as they master the Rapid Learning Cycles framework. Each team had interesting and meaningful challenges to solve along the way.
Here are a few areas where that work has been especially impactful:
The Most Important Change
Rob Heebink, Former R&D Executive of Gallagher Group, describes the most important change they experienced through incorporating Rapid Learning Cycles.
