What if staying put is riskier than making a change?
I guide accomplished leaders to reclaim their worthiness, align with their values and what matters most, create healthy boundaries, and invest confidently in their future.
INTRO
Believe. Serve. Guide.
You’ve achieved success that others admire. You’re financially secure, respected in your field, and accomplished beyond what you once imagined. Yet in quiet moments, you find yourself wondering: Who am I without this role? What’s next for me? What if I make the wrong choice?
If you’re lying awake questioning your next chapter while knowing you’re financially set but feeling somehow undeserving of that abundance, you’re not alone. The biggest risk isn’t changing your life; it’s staying paralyzed by uncertainty when you have the experience and resources to create what you truly want.
"Are you ready to embrace change so your choices are grounded in what fulfills you?"
Give yourself two minutes to consider what factors are influencing your hesitation to make a change. Click below and complete the Readiness Check.
IMPACT JOURNEY
The grounded leader's transition framework
Four essential steps for accomplished leaders ready to move from feeling stuck to making choices grounded in what matters most:
Reclaim your worthiness
Accept that you have done enough, achieved enough, and are worthy of the life you want beyond any title or accomplishments. This foundational shift from ‘Am I enough?’ to ‘I am enough’ unlocks everything that follows.
Align with what matters most grounded in your values
Get clear on who you are beyond your role and what truly matters as you shape this next chapter. When you know you’re worthy, you can reconnect with the values that will guide every decision ahead. Freedom comes when choosing not from obligation, but from authentic choice.
Create boundaries that honor your worth
Learn to say no to what doesn’t serve you and yes to what does, without guilt or apology. When you embrace your worthiness, boundaries become acts of self-respect and freedom rather than sources of anxiety.
Embrace your abundant life
Stop hiding from the financial security and life you’ve earned. Shift from ‘Do I have enough?’ to ‘How do I use what I have in alignment with my values?’ You deserve to feel worthy of your abundance, not apologetic about it.
SERVICES
Overview
As you contemplate what’s next and acknowledge some factors influencing your hesitation to move forward, you may be seeking a trusted partner to guide you. This overview of services shares possible approaches for your journey. Each person arrives at this moment differently and needs tailored support. That’s what a clarity conversation offers—an exploration of what you need from a trusted partner and how to move forward with confidence.
1:1 Coaching
"Finding Your Worthy Path Forward"
Speaking Engagements
Interactive presentations on boundaries, abundance mindset, and leadership transition
Group Programs
Quarterly workshops on beliefs, boundaries, and alignment
Get In Alignment
3 hours in one or two sessions
Getting in alignment is a decision. Living in alignment is a practice.
- Gain clarity on your purpose moving forward
- Express your vision simply
- Understand why your vision nourishes you
- Ground yourself with values statements that speak to your heart.
Alignment is based on Infinite Impact: Stories of Alignment by Amber Vilhauer, with Kathleen Quinn as a featured author, along with 11 others.
Personalized Coaching
6-month intensive: Finding Your Worthy Path Forward
Take a weekly journey to partner on creating clarity and choice, whether you stay, transition, or do something entirely different. This process honors where you are now while building your capacity to make whatever decision feels most aligned when you’re ready.
The intensive breaks into these sections:
- Understanding what no longer serves you.
- Get in alignment
- Honor your transitions and changes
- Transform your relationship with boundaries
- Design your path forward
Personalized Coaching:
Single Series Offerings
Reinvention, Boundary, and Worthy are focused coaching programs addressing specific
needs you may face now. Each series varies in length, guided by companion books from Nancy
Levin, founder of Levin Life Coaching Academy.
Grief Education
We live in a grief-illiterate society. Only by moving intentionally through grief can we integrate loss and move forward. Drawing from David Kessler’s Certified Grief Educator training, this session guides you to understand grief’s impact and how it shapes relationships and your narrative
Money Beliefs Workshop:
Uncover What Money Means to You
A 3-hour focused exploration for small groups (maximum 12 participants) to examine the beliefs shaping your relationship with money and discover the freedom that comes from aligning it with your values.
Two Distinct Audiences Benefit:
This in-person workshop or webinar is offered separately for two distinct groups. First, individuals who have built wealth and want those closest to them to have a trusted space to speak openly, rewrite old beliefs, and live with more ease around money. Second, teams in wealth management, financial planning, family offices, or nonprofit development who understand their own limiting beliefs can better understand the humanity of their clients and engage in deeper conversations about the impact of their money.
What You'll Explore:
- What money means to you beyond the numbers
- Beliefs that may limit your thinking about money
- How do you relate to others about the money you and they have
- Whether you let money define your worth
- The freedom that comes from aligning money with your values
Client
Testimonials
Have you made yourself indispensable?
All too often, leaders become indispensable by always being the one in charge. The hidden cost of it impacts your ability to move forward. Read here to understand the hidden costs and how I might help you.
Each of us holds the power to live courageously and elevate those around us. When we're ready to harness that power differently, a trusted partner can serve as a much-needed catalyst. Life is precious; no need to wait for what's next.
About
Kathleen
Kathleen Quinn is a Mindset Coach, bestselling author, and speaker. She is a featured author of the anthology entitled Infinite Impact: Stories of Alignment with Amber Vilhauer and 11 other authors.
Her coaching business was a natural extension of a 35-year career as a leader in university alumni and development, where she listened to scores of individuals who believed in the vision of university leaders. She took early retirement from Stanford University as an Assistant Vice President for Development after serving on leadership teams for two multi-billion-dollar campaigns over 18 years.
Among her coaching clients, Kathleen is valued for the trusted space she creates where transformation can happen. She focuses on helping her clients feel grounded, free, and fulfilled by guiding them through a process to align with what matters most, to create boundaries, to reinvent themselves, and to understand the powerful impact of grief. She also works with clients who have achieved significant wealth but have yet to live fully with it to create impact and joy in their lives or the lives of others.
Having navigated her own transition from institutional leadership, Kathleen understands the complex emotions of stepping away from meaningful work while maintaining your sense of purpose and impact. She and her late husband, Michael, experienced the power of making charitable gifts that aligned with their values.
Kathleen combines decades of working with philanthropists and years coaching leaders who seek fulfillment that is missing. Her passion for this work is deepened by the loss of five loved ones before the age of 60. Her love for people's stories is intertwined with her love of theater - she is a self-proclaimed theater geek. All of this gives her a depth of understanding for individuals on similar journeys.
Core Values
Nurture Wholeness
With grace, I embrace all parts of myself, striving daily for fulfillment as I am, while rejecting distracting self-judgment.
Live Courageously
I challenge myself to be brave, filled with optimism and enthusiasm in my work and civic engagement.
Connect Openheartedly
I listen to understand. With kindness and candor, I invite reflection to inspire others’ growth and welcome wisdom for my own.
Deliver Impact
By establishing trust, I create space for people to uncover the values-driven change they seek to align with their true purpose.
Elevate Decency and Justice
Respectfully, I encourage each of us to translate our concerns into action, whether quietly or vocally. Together, we create communities in which every neighbor is secure, living with dignity, respect, and the opportunity to succeed.
FAQs
I work in the space between traditional coaching and financial planning. Financial advisors can tell you if you have enough money and how to invest it, but they can't address the worthiness questions that keep you from embracing what you have. I help you process the emotions and stories that create scarcity thinking, even when you're financially secure. Once you shift from "Do I have enough?" to "How do I use what I have?", you can create meaningful impact with your resources in ways that align with your deepest values.
You don't have to decide anything today. This work is about getting clarity on what matters most to you and building the skills to make decisions from alignment rather than fear. Then you choose what's next from a position of personal power not obligation.
No. I never ask about financial standing. Often, my clients are financially secure but struggling with worthiness questions about what they have. I want you to feel grounded, free, and fulfilled so you can have the conversations about abundance you may be avoiding.
Career transitions involve grieving who you've been professionally. Many accomplished leaders also carry unresolved grief about aging parents, inherited assets, or other losses that affects their decision-making. We address whatever grief is present in your life.
Feeling torn between loyalty and readiness for change is at the heart of the matter. I would invite you to understand what motivates those feelings. What beliefs do you hold about your obligation to the organization? You can explore what's possible while honoring your commitments. Sometimes clarity helps you contribute more effectively.
Accomplished leaders are used to having the answers, which can make it harder to ask for support. The most successful people often benefit most from having a trusted space to explore questions they haven't shared with anyone else.