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Kate E. Stephenson is a certified holistic life, career and leadership coach. Kate’s clients are dreamers and doers with an itch to speak—their truth, their expertise, their ideas, their visions. And Kate believes that it is through the tongue that we create, that we become.
Whether you are a rising leader, busy parent, or a C-suite executive, seeking a new role or a life re-imagined, Kate can help you own your story — powerfully — so that you achieve your goals, and make the possibility of dreams your lived
reality.
In 2006, Kate started a resume and career consulting business. She found herself asking questions like:
“If you could lock up all of your doubts and fears in a box and shut the box away in the deepest recesses of the attic of your mind, what would you want to do with your career/your life?”
“If you walked into your perfect job today, what would it feel and look like for you?”
“If you asked your favorite colleague or manager, what are the five words they would use to describe you?”
After many years of posing these deep questions to her resume clients in an effort to tell their stories, a longtime client asked her, “Kate, have you considered offering coaching as a service?”
As a resume writer, she saw her work as helping clients get clear on who they saw in the mirror and what it was they wanted to reflect to the rest of the world. Because of this innate approach, the truth was — she had already been coaching clients through project, life, and career goals for over a decade.
This led her to some life-changing experiences as she earned her coaching certifications. Coaching was the final key that unlocked her passion. She knew that when we clear ourselves of anxiety and make space to hear the gentle voice of our true desires, something amazing happens — the path forward becomes clear. Kate’s coach training gave her the tools and language to help people do this better.
Since earning her certification in 2019, Kate has worked with individuals in every stage of life and career—young rising leaders, professionally established busy parents, those nervously nearing-retirement and wondering “what now?”, and everywhere in between. I help my clients filter the noise so they can finally hear their own thoughts. Whether seeking a new role or a life re-imagined, I work with my clients in highly individual and customized programs
to achieve their goals and birth their dreams.
Because of this wide range of clients, Kate started to notice an unexpected trend — clients who felt stuck and stymied not because of anything they had (or hadn’t) done but because of the toxic cultures in which they found themselves. These clients were smart, compassionate, creative, and ambitious with deep values and acute moral compasses. So how did they find themselves in these devastatingly diminishing and light-dimming situations? Kate had a strong intuition that sometimes we need support beyond the individual self- development focus of traditional life coaching. Now as a Certified Relational Trauma Coach, Kate can unequivocally share that:
Almost anyone can find themselves in a toxic relationship and it is not an indictment of who you are!
Toxic relationships don’t just happen at home. Workplaces can be just as damaging — and we often downplay the toll.
If you’re stuck in a toxic situation, it’s not your fault. You’re not “too sensitive” or “not resilient enough.”
There is hope! You’re not alone. And there’s a path forward.
I am here to help you identify and remove the roadblocks, whether internal or external, so that you can live the life you want. Your life only happens this one time—what do you want out of it? Let’s go get it, together.