Design

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For more energy, ease, and impact.

Hello, I’m Katie.

I help driven humans juggling full-on lives intentionally lighten the load and design life and work to sustain you rather than drain you.

I’ll support you to move from overstretched, carrying everything, and unable to switch off, to energised, focused, and enjoying life and work more. While keeping the impact you care about and making it more sustainable.

I also partner with organisations that want their best people thriving, engaged, and doing great work with them. ‍ ‍

You can lead AND live in a way that lights you up rather than burns you out.

Sound familiar?

You’re good at what you do, and you deliver, day after day.  But you’re quietly tired, your days feel more chaotic than calm, and you may be seeing signs of burnout.

You’re carrying multiple loads.  Your to-do list follows you everywhere, and you can’t remember when you last properly switched off.

Deep down you want things to be different, but you haven’t had the time, space, or permission to work out what needs to change, or how.

You may already have hit the wall.  Or you may be wondering whether a career break, new role, or change in hours is the answer.  It might be part of it, but often it isn’t, and a few months on you can find yourself in the same place, or worse.

You don’t have to step away from what you’ve built, overhaul everything, or do it all at once.  You need a way to see the whole picture, explore where you are and where you want to be, and identify what adjustments you need to make.

A way grounded in your identity and that’s intentionally wellbeing positive™, so the decisions you make and the actions you take are actually right for you.

That’s where I come in.

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU

Work with me to…

Create A Positive Work-Life Balance

Lighten your load and strike a happier and healthier mix between work, rest, and play.

  • Clarify what energises you and what matters most.

  • Define your priorities, non-negotiables, and nice-to-haves.

  • Dial down the guilt and get more comfortable setting boundaries and protecting your energy and focus.

  • Reshape and lighten your load to free up time and headspace.

  • Design a sustainable work-life blend with self-care woven into the fabric of your week.

    Breathing Space Session (2hrs) Coaching Programme (8 sessions)

Write Your Next Chapter

Choose and shape your next career move intentionally so it's meaningful, fulfilling, and sustainable.

  • Understand how the dimensions of wellbeing and happiness currently factor in your life and work.

  • Reconnect with who you are and what makes you tick, and create a personalised decision-making framework.

  • Explore and assess your options with confidence.

  • Design and plan your next chapter to work for you, your responsibilities, and your ambitions.

  • Take your first steps to creating it with accountability support to build momentum.

Coaching Programme (8 sessions)

Step Back From Burnout

Reignite your energy, joy, and confidence, and get back to shining your light.

  • Understand what is driving your burnout and what you can influence and change.

  • Put a personalised recharge plan in place to support you to rest and recover your energy.

  • Reconnect with who you are and what makes you tick.

  • Create a toolkit to manage unhelpful thought patterns so you can respond intentionally and authentically, not reactively.

  • Design and re-align your life and work (where needed) to be more energising, sustaining, and fulfilling.

12 months of discreet, tailored support to prevent or recover from burnout, and reduce your risk of it recurring

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Live, work & think by design.

Together, we can tackle

A blended toolkit.

Grounded in the latest insights on human flourishing and performance, I blend Work/Life Design, Coaching, and Consulting toolkits to help you move forward from where you are to where you want to be.

I create fresh, fun, impactful development support and experiences that bridge the gap between insight and application, catalyse meaningful action, and enable sustainable change.

I leave my clients with greater awareness and powerful practical tools they can draw on and use again and again.

LETS GET YOU THERE

Professional and Client Experience

  • Text that reads 'MAKING WORK WORK for Women Returners'
  • Number 8 in a pink and purple gradient with 'MILLION STORIES' written below on a black background.
  • The NHS Scotland logo with the letters 'NHS' in bold blue, a blue curved line underneath, and the word 'Scotland' below.
  • Deloitte logo with black text and a small green dot.
  • Green background with white text reading 'MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT'
  • Logo of Glasgow Caledonian University with text and emblem
  • Logo for Driven Woman featuring a stylized letter D in teal and black
  • NHS England logo with blue and white design
  • Orange square with white number 101, and the text 'OUTDOOR ARTS CREATION SPACE' at the bottom.
  • University of Glasgow logo with university crest and text

Lighten and Reshape your Loads

Because energy, focus, and fulfillment don’t happen by accident.

  • "Katie is an exceptional coach combining deep professional expertise, rich insights, and human touch to guide and support others in a down-to-earth actionable way."

    - Liza Horan, Mindstream -

  • "A truly transformative experience. Katie expertly guided us, creating a space that was both inspiring and empowering."

    - Marie-Claire Donnelly, Dream Magic Superfoods -

  • "Katie helped me gain exactly what I had hoped at the outset: clarity and confidence. She helped me gain a deeper understanding of my values and what is important to me. I now feel in complete control with the knowledge and tools to make decisions personally and professionally. I wouldn't have been able to get here without Katie."

    - Llinos Appleford, Vegware -

  • "Queen of Vision Boards!"

    - Pauline -

  • "Katie’s style was professional and warm and I felt comfortable talking openly with her. She asked good questions and expertly guided and supported me to achieve my goals. She also helped me identify tools that I could employ to increase my self-confidence."

    - Renata Beckford, Lloyds Banking Group -

  • "For the last three years Katie has run a Vision Boarding workshop for the participants on our Toolbox Leadership Programme. Great fun and a really powerful way to formulate, viusualise and stay connected to your goals."

    - Simon Chatterton, National Centre for Arts in Public Space -

  • "I particularly liked that the session required thoughts but then was practical in creating an output that visualises what I want to achieve this year. Katie's guidance was well paced and well considered."

    - Gemma Stuart, Gut Wealth -

  • "5 Stars! The Vision Boarding Session was AMAZING!"

    - Beverley Johnson, Managing Partner Johnson Legal -

  • "A truly inspiring experience. Katie set the perfect tone for fun filled mornings of creativity and motivation. Her support, guidance and encouragement created safe, no-judgement spaces for everyone to explore their own vision for their life. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the masterclass to anyone looking for a meaningful but fun team building or learning event."

    - Lynn Houmdi, The Challenges Group -

Why this kind of support?

 

I have spent two decades helping individuals, teams, and organisations to review, rethink, and redesign how they organise, work, and deliver.

After “hitting the wall,” as I call it, my journey to rejuvenate my wellbeing and create a “sustainable Katie” highlighted:

  • The research is clear on what we need to flourish and perform at our best.

  • We all carry work, life, and mental loads. Not recognising the whole life and full load is limiting us.

  • While burnout is a system issue, wellbeing is everyone’s business and we all have a part to play.

  • Ad hoc classes, mindfulness apps, and the health system only go so far and are simply pieces of a bigger puzzle.

  • Many of the concepts and tools I used in my work to support teams and organisations could also help individuals handle their loads, navigate life and work, and enhance their wellbeing.

By intentionally taking a wellbeing-grounded whole-person whole-life approach and using design thinking and tools, we can change the game and put all the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that works for both individuals AND the organisations they work for.

You don’t need to figure this out alone.

Whether it’s for you, your team, or your organisation, let’s discuss getting you from where you are to where you want to be.

LET’S CHAT