Hi, I’m Katherine Golub (pronounced “go love” with a “b”), PCC, MBA.

For over a decade, I’ve coached hundreds of community leaders facing burnout, conflict, and career uncertainty. Working with me, they cultivate renewed confidence, better communication skills, clear direction, and joy in their work.

As a city councilor and community organizer with over twenty-five years of experience, I am familiar with the weight you carry.

These times are rough. If confusing people dynamics, nagging self-doubt, and fear about what’s next keep you up at night, you’re not alone.

And yet, coaching my clients and practicing what I preach has taught me that it is possible to navigate the challenges of these times with confident presence, clear vision, strategic focus, and nourished heart.

I would love to teach you how.

How I Came to Do the Work I Do Now

As a young organizer years ago, I fought against tuition hikes, sweatshops, and the Iraq War. I was passionate, but I often felt burned out and struggled to build the deep relationships needed to keep going.

My worldview shifted in 2007 when my partner was racially profiled and deported. Seven months pregnant at the time, I left my job with the hotel workers’ union and moved to Mexico. Working to keep my family together across borders taught me lessons about conflict, power, and resilience that no training could offer.

After working as a birth doula and yoga teacher for several years, I started my coaching practice in 2013. I soon found that most of my clients came to me burned out, longing for clarity and confidence about their next steps.

Working with hundreds of clients over the past decade, I have discovered a common path to transformation. About half of my clients who come to me convinced they need to leave their current job find joy in their work again by healing the patterns that lead to burnout and cultivating a new relationship with work. The other half experience clarity and renewed confidence as they chart their course forward.

If you feel terror, loneliness, confusion, overwhelm, or doubt as you face these times—and you want to trust that you’re doing everything in your power to bring forth the changes you long for—I’d love to talk with you more.

Learn about my approach

Professional Experience & Training

My approach integrates four powerful methodologies:

One: Developmental Coaching and Leadership Transformation

Developmental coaching is a dynamic partnership that helps clients achieve their goals while developing the skills to continue achieving those goals long into the future. (Read more.)

Two: Systemic Constellations

Systemic constellations reveal the hidden dynamics that keep us stuck and heal patterns of intergenerational and organizational trauma by approaching our challenges with a whole-systems lens. (Read more.)

Three: Trauma-Informed Somatic Practice

I practice a body-centered approach to help my clients access inner wisdom, heal limiting patterns, develop new habits, and find greater aliveness. (Read more.)

Four: Group Facilitation, Mediation and Team Coaching

I’ve been helping people work together for social change since college, when I co-founded the Progressive Students Alliance at the beginning of the second Iraq War. (Read more.)

I’m so grateful for the way Katherine invited me to embody my professional work and encouraged me to tune in physically, the way a somatic healer would. Her clients have access to a huge range of approaches, practices, and a whole wealth of training. I’m now communicating my needs more clearly and in a way that elicits support. I am busier than ever but also operating with a sense of stillness and presence.

It truly feels like my life and my livelihood — myself and my working self — are integrated now, nurturing each other and reflecting the same values, commitments and aspirations.

-KC Ceccarossi, CEO, Common Media

Katherine’s work weaves together diverse dimensions of body, personality, and relationship. Many people could self-help themselves to build competency along one or two of these dimensions, but few could self-help themselves to a course of personal discovery that is as comprehensive and coherent as what Katherine offers.

I’ve worked on my habits of investing too much energy in interpersonal conflicts and taking on too many commitments for over fifteen years, but Katherine helped me to reach a greater level of resilience, rest-easiness, and stamina than I ever have before.

-Tim, Communications Specialist and Planning Board Member

After years of feeling creatively stagnant, it’s like the dams have opened and my creative energy is flowing freely and abundantly. I feel energized about my mission, excited to share through my marketing, and confident that I can steer my business forward as it continues to grow and expand.

I enthusiastically recommend Katherine to anyone who feels blocked or unsure about which direction to move in next. Her holistic approach will help you get beyond superficial solutions to the heart of what’s holding you back. It’s deep work that will transform your work and your life.

—Elena Mamatas, Healing Practitioner

A Few Things that Shape Me

I’m descended from Polish immigrants on my paternal line and Sicilian and Irish immigrants and early 1600s English settler-colonists on my maternal line.

As a white, cisgender, queer woman, I’m committed to doing my part to heal the intergenerational trauma inflicted by my ancestors, dismantle imperialist capitalist white supremacist patriarchy, and bring forth a world that meets all peoples’ needs. I am still very much on this journey.

I live with chosen family and my teenage son, Kai, on the ancestral lands of the Pocumtuck people, next to a community farm in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
In fifth grade, I won the prize for recruiting the most people to buy magazines by biking door-to-door. I still pound the pavement each election season, living my mantra: “I pray with my feet.”
When I’m not coaching, organizing, or with my loved ones, you’ll find me journaling on the front porch, reading, or dancing (salsa, bachata, kizomba, and more).

Connect With Me

If you’re grappling with conflict, burnout, or uncertainty in your work, I’d love to support you through one of my offerings:

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