Leading and Living Well with Kat

Jan 22 2023

Leadership lessons, career creation and well being stories from across the globe. Kat is a Global Leadership and Executive Coach with a passion for making a difference by coaching her clients to be the most authentic, confident, and purposeful leaders they can be, wherever they are on their career path. In this podcast she shares her wisdom, and that of others, for you to be inspired by as you pursue your career, leadership and life goals.

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It is a New Year 2023 - On flames to nurture and knowing when to quit

Jan 22 2023 17 mins

My mother sent me off with the following advise as I left Finland at the end of our amazing Holiday to my hometown, and the five-days spent in the polar night in the Finnish arctic - know what flames to keep burning in your life, and which ones to let die, or to put out. As I returned to my home in New Jersey, USA and was sorting through the mail that had piled up I fou

December Coaching Calendar - Gift#16: Trigger Warning for the Holidays ( and difficult conversations at work)?

Dec 16 2022 11 mins

TRIGGER warning for the Holidays! Do we need a trigger warning for the holidays? Today there are trigger warnings at the start of a movie, a book, a workshop, a class in school or college, just to mention a few situations. We have become very tuned in to triggers. What is a trigger? It is an emotional reaction to an internal or external trigger/event. An example of an interna

December Coaching Calendar - Gift #14: Success and Jealousy - why we feel jealous and how we can use it as a powerful motivation to live our best life

Dec 14 2022 10 mins

THANK YOU! Thank you for the more than 1500 downloads / listens to my podcast. The podcast was dormant for eight months, and still you listened to me. The December Coaching Calendar podcast-series is still going on. Todays' episode is about success - and jealousy. Why do we feel jealous of others', sometimes even of people who are dear to us? Is it FOMO - the fear of mi

December Coaching Calendar - Gift#13: FIKA at work to create a happier, healthier, and more engaged workplace - spread light in darkness like Lucia

Dec 13 2022 11 mins

What we can learn from Swedish Fika and the Nordic Lucia tradition on how to create a happier, more engaged, and healthier workplace. Lucia brings light, love and hope in the darkest time of the year in the high north. She is highly anticipated and Lucia-Day on 12/13 is a joyful celebration. That brings me to another Nordic tradition, the Swedish Fika. We Finns ca

December Coaching Calendar - Gift #9: On Boss Burnout - How burnout prevention and health and well-being became the buzz words in leadership development

Dec 11 2022 13 mins

Boss Burnout There is a lot of talk and writing about burnout at work and how we can prevent it from happening on an individual level, and how important the role of leadership and middle management is to create a healthy work culture, and to support their staff so they do not burnout. Often the conversation starts from the perspective of the team, or team member. From their ne

December Coaching Calendar - Gift #8: Building beautiful boundaries - to protect me from you, or you from me?

Dec 08 2022 14 mins

How to build and keep boundaries is a common coaching topic. Often we explore how we can draw boundaries between work and home -how to set time boundaries. Or, we need relationship boundaries, between you and your leader, or between you, the middle manager, and your team. Or between friends and family members. Boundaries can be beautiful. I call them beautiful whe

December Coaching Calendar - Gift#7: On celebrating life, and grieving what we have lost - the importance of acknowledging life and work events.

Dec 07 2022 11 mins

This episode published on my birthday is a reflection on why we celebrate or acknowledge different life events, both the joyful and the sad. I also discuss why it is important that we celebrate success at work, acknowledge the effort made and those who contributed. It is also important to acknowledge the difficult and sad times at work. For example, the death of a team member

December Coaching Calendar - Gift #6: Finding and growing your SISU, or inner strength through intentional risk taking

Dec 06 2022 11 mins

Sisu is a Finnish word, or concept that means inner strength, grit, or determination. We often like to talk compare it to resiliency How can we find and exercise our inner strength? Can we all have Sisu? Indeed we can. This episode explores what Sisu is, and how you can develop your inner strength by intentionally taking small calculated risks, placing yourself in

December Coaching Calendar - Gift#5: How to cook a team culture of care - the base and the ingredients matter.

Dec 05 2022 13 mins

What are the ingredients in your team soup? Leading a team is like cooking a soup. You need a base, or a broth, and different ingredients and flavors. How do you want your team soup to taste? What's the dominant flavor and the context? Cook your soup from a base of psychological safety and you will have a team culture of care and inclusion. The diversity of flavors - id

December Coaching Calendar - Gift #4: History lesson - looking back to find solutions and opportunities for today and tomorrow

Dec 04 2022 12 mins

Using our past to help us shape our present and influence our future, that is today's topic. Our past does not have to be the burden that slows us down. We can own our past and learn from it, both the good and the bad. By identifying key events that influenced out path, and people who helped us or inspired us to select a certain path, or overcome an obstacle, we can find a de

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