THE COMPOUNDING LIFE
Keep Building What's Next
I work with leaders in higher education and also women navigating
what's next. I help them create a life and career that feels intentional, meaningful, and truly their own.
The Compounding Life is a way of living where every experience, lesson, relationship, and reinvention builds on what came before, helping you create what's next with greater intention and purpose.
This is where intention meets real action.
Structure | Intention | Momentum
Leadership Coach | ACC, CPCC, MA, MBA
Meet Kat
A certified professional coach and founder of Create What’s Next Coaching. After more than 30 years as a marketing and communications executive, Kat now helps high-performing leaders navigate career transitions, burnout, and moments of reinvention.
Through compassionate coaching, deep listening, and practical action, she helps clients reconnect with what matters and confidently create what’s next.
Choose your next.
Hear Kat in conversation
Interviews and podcasts she's been a guest on
NEWEST INTERVIEW
How to Break the Reaction Cycle | The Higher Ed Marketer
MORE INTERVIEWS
“Working with Kat was deeply transformative.
She helped me uncover parts of myself I didn't even realize needed to be witnessed. Her presence is grounding and steady. She listens in a way that makes you fully feel seen, and she reflects things back that brings clarity almost immediately...”
- Ruby
BLOG: DESIGN YOUR NEXT
This is your place to think, reflect, and move forward.
Find thoughtful articles, practical tools, and curated resources to help you navigate midlife with clarity and intention. The content is designed to spark insight to give you real steps you can take now, not someday.
Whether you’re exploring a career shift, redefining your purpose, or simply asking deeper questions about who you want to become next, you’ll find ideas here that challenge you and support you.
Read. Reflect. Act.
Your next chapter doesn’t begin with a leap.
It begins with awareness.
