LEadership, Simplified
Leadership gets complicated fast.
Most leaders navigate it alone.
I'm Katie, a former Stripe HRBP and certified executive coach. I work with tech leaders to untangle the hard stuff and build a leadership approach that actually fits who you are.
MY APPROACH
KZ Coaching helps you cut through complexity, find your confidence, and build a leadership style that's authentically yours.
Real growth requires real work. I partner with you to understand what's actually driving your challenges, not just the surface symptoms. Together we build self-awareness, strengthen how you lead others, and create practical tools you can actually use. The kind of changes that stick.
How we work together
1:1 Coaching
Work through your toughest leadership challenges with a thought partner who's been in the trenches. Bi-weekly sessions, real frameworks, lasting change.
Team Alignment Coaching
When your team is struggling to gel, communicate, or move forward together, I design and facilitate programs that get to the root of it.
Assessments
Tools like the Enneagram and Leadership Circle Profile to help you understand yourself and your leadership more deeply.
Kind words froM Clients
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“Katie is one of the most effective coaches I've ever met. She is incisive and gets to the "heart" of the matter or what someone is dealing with very quickly and kindly. She has an open, empathetic yet pragmatic manner that makes people open up to her quickly. She also helps people come up with actionable plans for improvement or how to attack a problem that are extremely useful.”
Jackie Opritza, People Leader @ Anthropic
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“Katie is highly strategic and understands human nature. She's curious, warm, easy to connect to, and insightful. I find her judgement to be spot on.”
Senior Leader in Tech Industry
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"Katie has a natural way of getting to the core of leadership challenges while making you feel supported and understood. She helped me navigate team situations with a thoughtful mix of strategic thinking and empathy, and I consistently walked away from our time together with practical insights. Katie did a great job of pushing me on my thinking in a way that was gently challenging and open minded. Working with her made a real difference in both my leadership approach and my team's effectiveness."
Amanda Donohue, Former Tech Leader @ Stripe