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Helping queer leaders and their teams bridge the gap between their values and how they lead day to day.
Fruitful Coaching and Consulting helps queer leaders and their teams bridge the gap between their values and how they lead day to day. We help individuals and teams navigate hard conversations, make clearer decisions, and create healthier ways of working together.
Why Fruitful Coaching and Consulting Stands Out
My diverse professional background and broad client base help me bring expertise, warmth and directness to my work, helping clients move from overwhelm and avoidance into clarity and aligned action.
I combine practical leadership support with deep relational and systems awareness.
Clients often say they feel deeply understood without needing to over-explain themselves, while also being challenged to take meaningful, concrete action toward the lives and leadership they want.
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The Resourced Leader Method is a guided coaching framework designed to help you reconnect with your values, build confidence in your leadership, and take meaningful action. Across six structured yet flexible phases, we’ll explore your strengths, clarify your goals, and create a plan that aligns with your authentic leadership style.
The phases:
1. Building Trust & Identifying Support
We start by establishing a strong foundation—building trust, identifying the people and structures that will support you, and setting clear expectations for feedback and accountability.
• Identify your key supports and accountability partners
• Explore how you best receive feedback and navigate challenges
• Set shared expectations to create a foundation for deep, impactful work2. Clarifying Your Core Values
Leadership without clear values can feel directionless. This phase is about identifying and refining the 5-7 values that truly guide your decisions and actions.
• Explore where your values come from and how they shape your leadership
• Identify misalignments between your values and your current work or life
• “Road test” your values to ensure they are authentic to you3. Visioning & Goal Setting
Once we’ve established your values, we map out your vision—both short- and long-term. We explore what’s possible, identify roadblocks, and create a plan of action that feels both ambitious and achievable.
• Define what success looks like for you, today and in the future
• Assess the supports and barriers to achieving your goals
• Create a roadmap that aligns with your highest self4 & 5. Practicing & Adapting
Transformation happens through action. These phases serve as a practice ground for integrating your values into daily leadership, testing new behaviors, and adjusting as you go.
• Take meaningful steps toward your vision and assess what’s working
• Identify where you feel strong in your leadership and where you’re challenged
• Build resilience by learning to navigate uncertainty with confidence6. Reflection & Integration
As our work together comes to a close, we focus on embedding your learning into your next chapter. Reflection helps solidify your growth and ensures you continue evolving with purpose.
• Evaluate your progress based on the success markers set in Phase 1
• Identify key takeaways and create a plan for continued growth
• Develop a strategy for maintaining accountability and supportAvailable ongoing supports, after completing a Resourced Leader program:
One-off Resourced Re-Activator sessions
Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your vision? These single, 90-minute sessions are available to previous Resourced Leader participants to support your ongoing growth.
The Resourced Leader Mastermind Pod
Join fellow Resourced Leaders for a monthly group- and peer- coaching session. Each Leader will have 10 minutes to present a challenge and receive coaching and feedback from a certified coach as well as their peers.
Resource library (in development)
Asynchronous content available to all past and present Resourced Leader participants, on topics ranging from goal setting to navigating professional conflict.
Hi, I’m Kate!
I’m a certified leadership coach and conflict transformation guide who helps queer leaders create abundant, purpose-driven lives and careers by aligning their choices with their values.
Who we work with
Fruitful Coaching and Consulting supports both individuals and organizations, and is proud to work with a diverse roster of clients across industries, including K-12 and higher education, hospitality, performing arts, graphic design, mental health + social services, and technology.
1:1 leadership and executive coaching to get clear on what you want, what matters, and what is sustainable.
Values and purpose alignment so day-to-day choices match your commitments.
Boundaries, pacing, and self-trust building to reduce overwhelm and make grounded decisions.
Concrete, accountable action planning to move from stuckness into steady, aligned progress.
How I work with Groups
How I work with individuals
How I work with individuals
How I work with Groups
Facilitation + thought partnership to help groups make clearer decisions and move work forward.
Strategy and planning support that turns values into practical, aligned next steps.
Conflict transformation + relational tending to navigate hard conversations and build healthier ways of working together.
Custom, interactive learning and skill-building tailored to your goals, culture, and real-world challenges.
Community
Collaboration
Co-Creation
Community Collaboration Co-Creation
Kind Words From Clients
Kind Words From Clients
I’d love to chat and learn a little about you or your organization! From there we'll come up with a plan.
