Strong Leaders.
Connected Communities.
Meaningful Change.
Elevating Leaders. Elevating Teams.
We work with leaders and teams to strengthen mindsets, skills, and adaptability to lead with purpose and create lasting, human-centered change. Together, we’ll build stronger, healthier, more connected, and higher-performing teams and communities.
What we offer…
Grow your self-awareness, decision-making, and accountability through personalized coaching. Build the mindsets and skills to lead with purpose, resilience, and lasting impact.
Transform teams into highly effective, innovative, and collaborative units. Strengthen trust, communication, and shared ownership while focusing on what truly matters.
Connect and learn in peer leadership circles designed to spark insight, foster growth, and build community. Gain practical tools to lead thoughtfully, adapt strategically, and create meaningful change together.
Leading Change & Transformation: The Wisdom of the Mountains
Your nose is chilled from the crisp night air, your face warms as you step outside into the sun and onto the trail. Blisters remind you of the miles trekked so far; your muscles scream loudly questioning your decision to push on while quietly validating your strength, resilience and grit with every step you take.
Once in motion, the path reveals itself and the mountains reveal who you are. Your pack lightens as you begin to trust yourself and trust the mountains - to carry what is no longer yours to carry and what is no longer serving you. These moments ask something different of you.
You might be staring down day 3 of an adventure or walking into work on a Tuesday. Either way, you know these moments.
What would you do if you trusted you were ready?
It's time. You were meant for this.
Let’s connect!
Katy Hertel
Leadership Coach & Facilitator
Talent Development
Human-Centered Design
Katy works with change-makers who demonstrate a readiness to think and operate differently to achieve new possibilities. Katy works with clients from a shared foundation of values and the belief that the key to unlocking organizational success is through the awareness, well-being, and development of your greatest asset: your leaders. Katy co-creates experiences and development to address, and work intentionally to close, the gap between the reality of where your leaders are today and your aspirations for your future. Katy will be your trusted thought partner and coach through the process, working alongside you to create inclusive spaces for optimal team dynamics.
To drive outcomes, Katy draws on coach certification from the NeuroLeadership Institute and uses brain-based approaches to work toward meaningful changes to how leaders think, do, and communicate. Additionally, Katy practices human-centered design, leveraging mindsets and tools gained from involvement with the University of Pennsylvania’s Social Impact Design program. Having held a multitude of leadership and talent development roles at fortune 500 and startup companies, Katy facilitates experiences to challenge and support senior leaders through frontline leaders, adapting development to leaders’ levels, skills and current business context.
