About me
Hi, i’m Kat.
I’m a qualified Business Psychologist and certified Coach, who spent 15 years working at the cutting edge of people, organisational development, culture & leadership in tech companies. During that time I led teams and partnered with founders and executives on the scaleup journey, including through successful company exit.
I'm passionate about helping leaders get out of their way and thrive sustainably amidst chaos, without burning out.
Disconnected and overwhelmed
To the outside world I had a successful career I excelled at, that provided financial security and meaning; a loving husband who I owned a canal-front apartment in London with; traveled and explored the world often.
However, I was frazzled, overwhelmed, empty and lonely. It felt like if I stopped, I would fall apart, and I wasn’t sure if I could put myself back together.
I had everything I wanted, that I had worked incredibly hard to achieve, so why did it all feel so heavy?
In 2020, my body gave me the answer I needed to hear. I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, a condition that if I didn’t start making changes to my life, would significantly impact my ability to live.
The journey within
Since then, I have been on a profound self-development journey, figuring out my sh*t:
Building a greater awareness and compassion for deep-rooted thought-patterns and behaviours that were no longer serving me;
Understanding my needs, boundaries and true passions in life and building new routines, habits , coping strategies and experiences that seek to meet these (and letting go of old ones);
Cultivating a more peaceful, grateful and positive mindset, through really looking at all the parts of myself I had been neglecting, shaming or unwilling to accept, and learning to love them again and create internal balance;
Building trust with my self, to take down the many masks I had been wearing, and have the courage to find and be my authentic self with others;
Fostering a beautiful, supportive circle around me with true connection, care and JOY!
To start dreaming what my one life on this planet could truly be like if I allowed myself to thrive - to grow, operate in alignment with my values, feel energised, be successful on my own terms and feel really f*cking good about it.
Reconnecting with little Kat
Much of the work I have done over the past five years, has been to reconnect with who I was as a child, before the conditioning took hold from the external world.
As a child I was playful, incredibly curious, full of boisterous energy, courageous and unequivocally myself.
I channeled all of that superpower into artistic roller skating, where I competed on the National and International stages, being one of the best junior skaters in the UK by the age of 12.
Alongside this, I grew up in a single-parent household, experienced homelessness as a child and was painfully aware of the sacrifices we had to make around basic needs, for me to succeed at the thing I loved.
Everything I experienced early in life, the determination and grit I wielded, catapulted me out of a council block and into the board room.
However, sometimes our strengths can become our biggest derailers, and suddenly what made you ‘great’ doesn’t seem to work or feel good anymore.
It was this journey, of reconnecting with my true essence - the curious, courageous, playful, unequivocal part of my self - that helped me to start dreaming of a life where I could truly thrive again, just like little Kat.
