About Kate
I’m a Harvard graduate, a two-sport Division 1 All-Ivy athlete in Women's Ice Hockey and Women's Lacrosse, a Berklee College of Music alum, an award-winning professional singer/songwriter/guitarist, a primary caregiver to a mother with stage 3c ovarian cancer (RIP), a National Outdoor Leadership School graduate and lifelong adventurer.
But I wasn't always like this.
LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ...
As I walked through the doors of my new high school at 14, I had an inexplicable (to me at the time) flash of awareness.
Without any antecedent, out of nowhere, I realized something profound about the nature of life as it is lived and experienced: everything leading up to this precise moment didn't matter.
I was a new student at a new school. I had no history here. I could become anyone I wanted to be. No one knew me; no one knew my Mom, Dad, or my brothers. I could become a different me than the me I had grown up as, the me I thought I was. I could start over; I could write a new story for myself.
And that is what started to do, moment by moment.
I have never forgotten that instant — the carved wooden doors, the chilly air inside the cavernous building, the slant of the sun that fall afternoon.
I crossed a threshold physically and mentally. I started the process of leaving an old story of myself behind. I started down a path of awareness and self-change.
Action and honest feedback is how you transform your life
Who I Coach
I began coaching in 2011.
I’ve spent thousands of hours coaching CEOs and aspiring CEOs, Olympic coaches, ultra-marathoners, entrepreneurs, world-class musicians, Broadway actors, cancer survivors, skydivers, teachers, mothers, and high school and college students.
In short, it’s been my immense privilege to coach people from ALL walks of life who know there is more out there for them and who see the incredible value and undeniable edge a coach can give them.
How I Coach
EVERY COACHING SESSION IS COMPLETELY TAILORED TO YOU AND YOUR GOALS
I do not coach from a book, a course, a script, or from a coaching certificate program or coaching method.
How could I? YOU are too beautifully awesome and complicated for any program or method.
First, I go deep and ask questions. I listen deeply.
Then, I give you new ways of thinking and new strategies to experiment with. I help you focus and tame the noise and negative loops in your head. I challenge you to take weekly and daily action and to make big asks of yourself and the world around you.
And I make sure we do all this with laughter, humility, and fun. Freedom and joy are how we walk the road of change.
How It Works
MY JOB IS TO GO BEYOND YOUR "STORIES" AND THE THINGS YOU “THINK” HOLD YOU BACK FROM WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE
We talk on the phone or face-to-face via Zoom or in person.
Our work is deep, personal, and intimate. It challenges you. It wakes you up. You will be uncomfortable. That’s where the growth happens.
You develop the ability to impact people deeply by 1) taking action and 2) getting honest feedback.
You become an owner not a victim. Instead of living in a world of expectations and disappointments, you live in a world of agreements. You ask bold questions of loved ones and of the larger world around you.
My coaching is intense. It’s definitely not for everyone. I am not your friend, I’m your coach. I’m here to serve you, not to please you.
I exist in your life for a reason: to guide you to create what you really want—not what you “say” you want.
Every coaching partnership is different because everyone I work with is different. I tailor our conversations to you. And -- at the same time -- I have ideas about coaching structures that can work. We start and we co-create.
How We Start
WE GO DEEP
Before I offer you a space in my creative partnership, before you send me any money you fill out a questionnaire that brings me up to speed on why coaching, why now, and why me.
Then, if it seems like we are a fit, we have a conversation by phone, Zoom, or (if the time, place, and vibe is right) by walking a mountain trail or a city street.
We use this call to explore the possibility of us working together.
I keep an active waiting list and space in my calendar for coaching partnerships are full months in advance.
If you want to work together, please be in touch. I coach by invitation and referral only.
ARE WE A “HELL YES” TO DOING DEEP WORK TOGETHER? LET’S FIND OUT!
I focus on you and where you are now. I listen. I ask questions. Beyond what you say you want, what do you really want? What is the thing you say you want that you have a hard time admitting to anyone, even yourself?
Often, I close our first, free conversation with a challenge. I'll ask you to commit to taking an action (or a series of actions) that pushes you, calls on your courage, and inspires you to take a risk. You will experience my coaching in real-time — before you pay me anything.
I need to be completely sure that you are up to the challenge of high-intensity coaching — that you are coachable, self-directed, and willing to take action.
We don’t move forward until we are both a “hell yes.”
Your Investment in Yourself
Money is only a FRACTION of what you’ll invest in your coaching with me
You’ll invest your entire being -- including but never limited to your vulnerability, your grit, your courage, your sense of play, your willingness to take action, your beliefs about how the world works, your humility, your compassion, your seriousness. In short, your life.
You’re never ready for this kind of commitment.
No matter. It’s time…
Don't wait.
You’re never ready for something like this.
Now is the best time to start.