hi, i'm catie.
I’ve been goal-oriented since I was a kid. For much of my early life, success meant knowing what I wanted and working hard to achieve it. I became a lawyer, built the career I had imagined for myself from a young age, and checked many of the boxes I thought would equal success.
I was genuinely proud of what I had accomplished, but once I achieved what I once set out to do and my career evolved, so did the questions I was asking.
I became increasingly curious about the things accomplishment alone couldn’t answer: What makes our lives and our work meaningful? What does success actually look like when we define it for ourselves instead of what we're told it should look like? How do we recognize when we’ve outgrown something we once wanted, and trust ourselves enough to determine what comes next? How do we stay ambitious and focused on the future while remaining present for the life we’re building along the way?
Asking deeper questions changed the direction of my life and eventually my career.
I became deeply interested in personal development, meditation, spirituality, and the role our inner lives play in the choices we make. I started paying closer attention to my own intuition, exploring what fulfillment meant to me, and becoming fascinated by how we grow and change throughout our lives.
What began as a personal exploration eventually became part of my professional life, too. I became a coach in 2018 working with people on questions of career, purpose, leadership, and personal growth, in addition to facilitating retreats, workshops and online courses on these topics.
And then, I felt ready for something new.
I had loved what I created in my online coaching business, but I could feel myself being pulled toward a new challenge. Following that instinct led me back into law, but in a new way. My experience practicing law gave me a deep understanding of the legal profession, while coaching and facilitation had taught me how much I loved helping people grow. Attorney leadership, learning and development became a natural intersection of the two.
Today, I work in Learning & Development at a leading global law firm, supporting lawyers and leaders across the Americas through coaching, training, and immersive learning experiences designed to help them grow throughout their careers.
Alongside my work in-house, I also work with a small number of private coaching clients - typically people in the midst of their own transitions and exploring their next chapters, professional or otherwise. If that's you, I'd love to hear from you.
These days, I’m less interested in having all the answers and more interested in asking better questions.
My work and writing explore the intersection of ambition and a well-lived life: how we pursue meaningful careers, continue evolving as people, and define success for ourselves as our lives change.
Becoming a mother has added an entirely new dimension to those questions. So have my experiences with fertility challenges, career changes, relationships, spirituality, and the many ways our priorities and identities evolve throughout a life.
I'm interested in all of it: leadership and ambition, motherhood and identity, intuition and spirituality, personal growth and reinvention, and how we stay connected to what matters to us while continuing to pursue what we want.
A well-lived life isn't one we figure out once - we keep creating it as we go.
COFFEE
can't live without
MOTHERHOOD
MY LATEST CHAPTER
WRITING
HOW I MAKE SENSE OF THINGS
YOGA + SPINNING
HOW I GET OUT OF MY HEAD
THE LAKE
favourite PLACE TO RESET
I write about the questions, experiences, and ideas I’m exploring along the way.
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