Design the life of your dreams

Empowering leaders to sustain high performance, and design the life and career of their dreams.

Embrace Growth.

Overcome Burnout.

Increase Emotional Agility.

 
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We work with leaders across North America to reach peak performance in their work and personal lives. We use leading professional coaching tools, practices, and assessments to effectively equip leaders to achieve and maintain peak performance, realize their dream life by fostering personal growth, navigating burnout, and enhancing emotional agility

We offer a number of services that can be explored here.

 
 


Why do professionals get coaches?

People seek coaching for a variety of reasons, often driven by personal, professional, or developmental needs. Here are some of the most common reasons people decide to work with a coach:

  1. Career Advancement:

    • Guidance on career development, transitions, or overcoming professional obstacles.

    • Support in achieving promotions, changing careers, or starting a new business.

  2. Leadership Development:

    • Developing leadership skills, including strategic thinking, team management, and decision-making.

    • Enhancing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and the ability to motivate and inspire others.

  3. Personal Growth:

    • Increasing self-awareness, self-confidence, and understanding personal values and goals.

    • Cultivating a growth mindset, resilience, and the ability to manage change.

  4. Improving Work-Life Balance:

    • Finding strategies to balance professional responsibilities with personal life.

    • Reducing stress and preventing burnout.

  5. Performance Enhancement:

    • Overcoming barriers to high performance in work or personal endeavors.

    • Setting and achieving challenging goals.

  6. Navigating Life Transitions:

    • Support during significant life changes such as relocation, retirement, or entering a new life stage.

    • Managing the emotional and practical aspects of transitions.

  7. Relationship Improvement:

    • Enhancing communication and interpersonal skills.

    • Building or repairing personal and professional relationships.

  8. Health and Wellness Goals:

    • Setting and achieving health-related goals, such as improving fitness, adopting a healthier lifestyle, or managing stress.

  9. Financial Coaching:

    • Setting financial goals and developing strategies to achieve them.

    • Improving financial management skills and making informed financial decisions.

  10. Confidence and Public Speaking:

    • Building self-confidence and improving public speaking or presentation skills.

Coaching offers a personalized approach to addressing these needs, providing support, accountability, and expert guidance to help individuals achieve their specific goals and improve their overall quality of life.

 

About Katie

With a master’s degree in organizational change and development, a professional coaching designation, and various other psychometric accreditations around topics such as personality, performance, and emotional intelligence, Katie has been a successful leadership coach for over 10 years and has coached over 100 clients to achieve their goals. She also leads popular workshops both in person and online.

Katie specializes in leadership development, personal insight, building high performance teams,
and creating healthy, rich relationships. Katie is also an advocate for women stepping out of their shell or “box” and owning the life, love, and careers they deserve.

Katie is a thought leader in an organization of over 10,000 professionals, has a private coaching practice, and is a member of many influential networks and organizations. In addition to her professional work, Katie is also an author of the book "The Good Girl's Dilemma" (coming soon). In contrast to some thought leaders or self-help experts and authors, she has applied the concepts and principles in this book to her own personal life with great success. She brings a fresh, unfiltered lens to the world of modern-day womanhood that makes readers blush, laugh, cry, and feel seen.


 

Credentials & certifications

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC)*

  • Masters Degree in Organizational Change & Development (MAOC)

  • Situational Leadership - certified practitioner

  • Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - certified practitioner

  • Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360) - certified practitioner

  • Energy Leadership Index Assessment Master Practitioner (ELI-MP)

  • Working Genius - certified practitioner

* Certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)

 

What Clients Have to Say

 

Sam - Executive, Business Development

Working with Katie has helped me immensely in a pivotal moment in my career growth. As I work towards becoming the best leader I can be for my team and also understand my personal goals and areas for growth, Katie has been there to listen and understand what issues I am facing, give feedback and ask the right questions, and share resources and tools to help me level up in key skills. I truly feel that my sessions with her have been as positively influential to my mental and emotional well-being as therapy has been as it has helped me set myself up for success in my career in the short-term and long-term. 

Hanna - Marketing Leader & Influencer

Katie's coaching approach, grounded in structured frameworks and an emphasis on articulating thoughts for clarity, was a transformative experience. For me this type of coaching was more productive than traditional therapy. It enabled me to make tangible progress in each session, from untangling complex thoughts and emotions to setting actionable plans for overcoming challenges. With Katie's guidance, I successfully navigated a significant career pivot, and I consistently turn to her whenever I feel the need for coaching in my life.

Stephanie - Finance Leader & Nutritionist

I have been working with Katie for the last few months and our time together has been extremely eye opening and expansive. Katie has helped me understand some deep routed patterning and how its been preventing me from following my path. Not only is Katie so kind and empathetic, she is so knowledgeable and has many tools to help you along your journey. She knows how to bring balance back into your life and will 100% be in your court no matter what you're going through!!!

Kelvin - Consultant 

“I constantly benchmark and seek feedback on major decisions from people I trust. Friends and family are great but carry certain biases, and may hesitate to be honest when giving feedback. This is where coaching can come in, helping you apply frameworks to decisions and think about them in ways you or your immediate network may not be able to.

Katie for me is both a source of trusted advice, but also someone who I know will deliver structured coaching to help guide good life decisions and direction, and that is invaluable.”

Amanda - PR Exec & Blogger

I can't thank Katie enough for the incredible support and guidance she has provided me during a challenging career change and transition all while juggling life with three young kids. Her expertise, guidance and unwavering belief in my abilities have been invaluable in navigating this journey.

Balancing career aspirations with family life can be overwhelming, but Katie has helped me clarify my goals, shown me how to prioritize, and given me strategies to ensure that I can be the best version of myself both at work and at home. 

I wholeheartedly recommend Katie to anyone navigating change and seeking professional and personal growth. I am incredibly grateful for her guidance and support on this journey of self-discovery and career development.

Arielle - Marketing Leader

I cannot express how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to work with Katie as a coach. Her guidance and support have been absolutely invaluable in helping me navigate the twists and turns of my professional journey. From the very beginning, she brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, and her ability to provide me with useful frameworks for reevaluating my perspective was nothing short of transformative. I had been feeling stuck about my career direction, but with her guidance, I was able to gain clarity and develop a strategic plan for my future.

What truly sets her apart as a coach is her remarkable emotional intelligence. She has an uncanny ability to empathize and connect on a deep level, which made our sessions not only productive but also made me feel supported during a difficult work transition. During a challenging career situation, she used her emotional intelligence to guide me through the emotional turmoil and provided me with practical coping tools. One of the things I appreciate most about my coach is her commitment to getting to better outcomes. She didn't just offer advice; she listened attentively, asked probing questions, and made insightful observations that I hadn't considered before. Together, we were able to explore various solutions and make decisions that were truly in line with my values and aspirations.

Thanks to my coach, I now feel more confident and equipped to face challenges that come my way as I enter a new phase in my career. I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking guidance and support in their journey. She is not just a coach; she's a mentor and a true champion for your success.

Brandon - Senior Manager, Professional Services

I have felt my experience with Katie has been amazing. It created that “safe corporate space” where I could easily discuss concerns/issues or feelings with someone who was able to help me either address them or learn what they meant and how to use/adapt from them. It has also been great having someone from outside the office I work in, holding me accountable to some of my action plan items, goals and making me think of how to become a better leader and implement those processes. In some ways. I would say she helped me find the real me in the office instead of the “corporate” me. Legitimately been a great experience that I had initially done to just satisfy a boss, that I now do not want to let go of at all.

Kelly - Partner, Professional Services

Katie was able to create an environment that helped foster openness and growth. This led to deeper self analysis and discovery leading to more clearly defined priorities, goals and the necessary steps to achieving these. The process has been a great addition to not only my work life but my personal life as well.

David - Partner, Professional Services

 The EQ assessment was a very brief test easy to complete. It provides insight which you may agree or disagree with, however what it does is open up a conversation about how you can be more effective. Once this starts you really examine your behaviour and how its perceived. You gain awareness about how you react and deal with people.  This is key to understanding as you can become more effective in reading others and yourself in given situations. I find myself more conscious about what I am doing.

Suzanne - Director, Human Resources

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Katie. During our time together I was able to discuss challenges and together we were able to create paths forward in a positive manner. Katie is very knowledgeable, positive and always brought an energetic attitude to our sessions. The assessments used were very informative and provided a tremendous amount of insight into my leadership style.

Robert - Partner, Professional Services

The EQ debrief process really helps to put many of the thing that I thought or perceived into context.  Defining a “gut” feeling and then building on that definition to help see how those elements impact the effectiveness of leadership.

Gio - Partner, Professional Services

I enjoyed working with Katie.  Her knowledge level was exceptional and I felt she was easy to talk to and deal with on these matters.  Her recommendations were practical and easy to implement when I put my mind to it.