Welcome! I help individuals and teams unlock creativity and navigate the creative industry with greater ease and clarity through individual sessions, workshops, events, consulting, resources, and more.

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Clients:

Anyone craving support or community with their creative passion projects and practices.

Creative Professionals navigating careers in the rapidly changing creative industry.

Team Leaders enabling creative, strategic, connected (and therefore efficient) teams.

  • "Kate, thank you for making the space as I explored what and why this [project] was important for me. It was an important part of the journey from "I have an idea" to "I am not sure if I should do this" to "I did it."

    Nish Patel, Founder, Tomorrow with Nish

  • "Every time we meet, I walk away feeling energized and focused with a clear path forward. It’s been such an amazing investment (in my creative writing and overall happiness) and I can’t recommend her enough."

    Emily Donelan, writer-producer

  • "Kate is uniquely expert at the merging of strategic insights, business data but also creativity. For a Creative organization to seek consultant help, it is hard to find someone with her experience and expertise. She brought out the best in our team."

    Shayla Love, Uber

  • "Working with Kate during my interview prep session made me feel like I had a second brain. She was fantastic (and patient) at helping me organize my notes and thoughts into a coherent and powerful narrative."

    Creative Senior Leader

  • "Kate's industry knowledge, networking advice, and encouragement to reflect on my career have given me the clarity I needed to move forward."

    Brooke Vlasich, Content Producer

  • “Kate has been a huge part of helping me organize and manifest my creative side projects. 10 out of 10 Creatives with ADHD would recommend!”

    Evan Roberts, Multimedia Storyteller & Producer

  • “Witnessing Kate transform our creative operations from zero to hero in such a short period, while keeping people at the heart of that journey, truly accelerated and empowered our entire org to deliver massive impact.”

    Mark Brady, HubSpot

  • "Kate brings deep professional creative experience, organization, and clear communication, as well as the flexibility, care, and integrity needed to create a safe space and help people flourish creatively."

    Emily Shaw, Podcast Executive Producer & Audio Artist

  • "After just a few sessions, I realized that many of the things I thought were “blocking” my creativity were actually outdated attachments I no longer needed. Kate's helped me build new frameworks and habits around both my creative and professional work — and the benefits showed up almost immediately."

    Walter Thompson, writer/independent journalist

Services

Prioritizing Personal Creativity

I help individuals overcome creative barriers, let go of perfectionism, start and finish passion projects, find the time, improve collaborations, share work, and more—all while experiencing the many wellness benefits that creativity brings. My clients span artists, creatives balancing client work, retirees with newfound time, and even those who don’t call themselves creative (yet). Prioritize your creativity through 1:1 sessions, workshops, events & my digital workbook.

Elevating Career & Leadership Skills

I guide creative industry professionals who want to approach their careers with greater intention and ease. My services include: sharpening leadership skills, crafting a career narrative, preparing for job interviews, important meetings and presentations; advocating for career growth, initiating a proactive change, strategizing team improvements, coping with office politics, and navigating this difficult time in the industry. Elevate your career through 1:1 sessions.

Enabling Creative, Strategic Teams

I advise teams on how to boost creativity and engagement and design efficient, practical operating models. Most teams focus too much on complicated systems and forget their core: the people. With decades of real world experience in media, music and tech—and an early expert in the field of Creative Operations—I understand the challenges teams face in dynamic work environments. Enhance your team creativity through 1:1 sessions, off-sites, workshops & consulting.

Upcoming Events

Make time for your creativity whether you have a creative project/practice in the works and are craving a change of scenery, enjoy meeting new creative people, want to boost your creativity by relaxing, drawing, reading, journaling, playing with prompts, or daydreaming; or simply like getting inspired. Reserve your spot here.

June 26th: Oakland Museum of California - RSVP by June 11th!
July 17th: Golden Gate Park (exact locations coming soon)
August 7th: Announcing soon (will be East Bay)
Sign up and get more details here. We'll take care of the logistics from there.

Monday Night Salons at Gold Palm are for local artists, authors, filmmakers, creatives and activists to be together and hold events. We are currently accepting Salon pitches for June 16th through September 22nd. If you have an idea or are interested in brainstorming, email booking@goldpalmoakland.com.