About - , Executive Coaching

Transformational Guide · Mentor · Coach

Where inner wisdom meets real-world leadership.

I’m Katie B. Smith — transformational guide, mentor, and coach for leaders and organizations navigating growth and change.

For over 15 years, I’ve worked with executives, professionals, and organizations across every major industry — helping them release what no longer serves them, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and lead with clarity, confidence, and ease.

My work is not about fixing what's broken. It's about revealing what's whole.

What This Is

Why I Do This Work

Innovator in Emerging Markets · 25+ Years Experience in Transformational Future-Forward Growth

In 1990, I turned my focus inward. I was raising a severely hearing-impaired daughter, and the experience of teaching her to speak and listen taught me something I could not have learned anywhere else — what it truly means to communicate. Not just with words, but with presence, patience, and deep attention.

That season of my life led me to yoga and meditation, and eventually to a stress-management program I created for attorneys throughout the 90s. This led me to becoming a retained executive recruiter and leader to organizations that were building out their executive teams.

Working with leaders in that context is what had me pursue coaching, as coaching began to emerge as an industry in the corporate setting. Being at the forefront of that, it became clear that the most powerful work I could do was help people reconnect with themselves — so they could show up more fully in their leadership, their careers, and their lives.

I’ve been doing that work ever since. And I never stop doing it on myself.

Philosophy

My Approach

I don’t push, fix, or force change. I create space for it.

I work at the intersection of executive leadership, somatic awareness, mindset transformation, and inner wisdom — because sustainable change requires the whole person. Not just the strategy. Not just the mindset. The body, the heart, and the mind — integrated.

A coaching session with me is a space to slow down and contemplate. In that stillness, something shifts. The insight transfers. The behavior follows.

This is how I work. And it’s why my clients stay.

"Working with me moves you from knowledge to wisdom — from information to embodied confidence in your own inner knowing."

Background & Credentials

Rooted in Experience. Deepened by Practice.

Before coaching, I spent 12 years as a retained executive recruiter — working inside companies, understanding leadership from the inside out, across all industries. That experience grounds everything I do. I know the corporate world. And I know what it costs leaders to stay stuck in it.

I hold a Master Level Certification in Coaching from the International Coach Federation (ICF) — and I continue to deepen my own practice through yoga, meditation, dream tending, somatic work, and ongoing personal development.

I don’t just teach this work. I live it.

✦ Master Level ICF Certified Coach (15+ years)
✦ 12 Years Executive Recruiting Experience
✦ Yoga & Meditation Background (corporate + personal practice)
✦ Dream Tending Practitioner
✦ Heart Coherence & Somatic Practices
✦ Corporate Coaching Delivery: AbbVie, Salesforce, L'Oréal, Chevron + more
✦ Average client engagement: 2+ years

In Their Words

What clients say

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“Katie is a tremendous asset to anyone who has aspirations to drive their career forward. Katie helped me navigate a career a change by teaching me how to identify a career path and goals, and then create a plan to reach those goals. Most recently, Katie helped me understand how to position myself to the senior leadership of my company as a valued and important contributor with the ultimate goal of gaining a promotion. Katie’s methodologies, including creating accountability for me to deliver on the plan, helped me obtain my intended results. I have no doubt that my career has been elevated because of the tremendous executive coaching I have received from Katie.”

— Jason Winston,

Director of Marketing, Business Services, WOW! Business

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Katie has helped me shift to a leadership mentality. This has enabled me to grow my business in an effective and more purposeful way with greater ease and phenomenal results.

— Cindy Skerjanec

Smart Marketing to Accelerate Your Business — Phenomenal Revenue Results

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Ready to begin?

If you’re feeling the pull toward something deeper — in your leadership, your work, or your life — I’d love to talk.