Katy Trost CEO Coaching -

Nirmal Gyanwali

My coaching experience with Katy was truly exceptional!

I found Katy’s article online about Type A personality and entrepreneurial anxiety. I could easily resonate everything to the life I was going through.

I was going through a lot of issues as the business was growing and there were countless challenges ahead. And I was trying to catch everything and control the outer world while I was not being able to stabilize the inner-self.

I was totally burned out! She helped me during a very difficult situation. Most importantly, she helped me to realize what my goal is and where I had the conflict with my own dream and the actions I was taking.

Without her help, I don't think I would be able to get back to a normal life and live the dream. I had a dream but I didn't know how to get there. I was hustling all the time but getting nowhere.

Since then I have been able to stay calm under the pressure and solve problems creatively.

Now, I really feel unshakeable. I have no hesitation recommending Katy to anyone who is looking for a better life.

Kim Nguyen

Like a story of your life that beautifully unwinds at the right moment and pace, Katy’s coaching leads the protagonist (you) through a formulaic series of learning building blocks chapters if you will, unraveling “ah ha” moments by walking you through a journey to help understand yourself and its impacts and relationships to how you view yourself and how that affects all interactions and thoughts around you. Each coaching class, builds on foundations taught in prior sessions, at a comfortable tailored pace.

From the minute you meet, Katy brings a jovial, easy going, comforting presence that sets the safe energy zone to help you grow. Each story/session can be different, but each seems to weave you in closer to understanding what it is that blocks you and Katy helps provide the tools to remove them. You leave each session spellbound with new tools and techniques to practice and to immediately apply in real life. The feeling of seeing the world react and shape to your new skill-sets is something that you cannot wait to share with Katy at the next session. Learning these very powerful, yet easy to learn abilities/processes/tools that can be applied to multiple scenarios is simply a “game changer” for ones looking at breakthroughs in a life coach. Katy had simply cracked the Da Vinci code!

If looking to expand beyond your current state performance, I’d strongly suggest connecting with Katy. Even just to hear the excitement in her voice or to hear her laugh.

Hallie Marden

Katy is a compassionate, insightful, and dedicated coach. She invests in the success of her clients, ensuring that they benefit fully from the coaching experience. I always love connecting with her and learn more about myself every time I do.

Mischa-Amadeus Olma

I’ve been working with Katy for over 9 months and looking back on what we’ve accomplished during this time is truly remarkable. Despite my doubts about the leadership development industry, after our initial conversation, I became curious about what coaching could do for me and my company. Since Katy has been running her own business from a young age and doesn’t come from a typical consultant background, she was easily able to emphasize with my challenges as a founder CEO.

Every entrepreneur knows the challenge of having to split their attention between executing and strategizing. Working on the business and looking ahead oftentimes gets neglected due to daily firefighting. We try to make it happen somehow, but often lack the structure and tools to simplify and focus on what’s truly important. During the past 4 years in business, I’ve lost endless hours to inefficiency and lack of clarity, while drowning in chaos. Other than Katy, I’ve never been 100% transparent with anyone about the challenges of the company. Not everything is meant to be shared with a team, investors or even friends. With all of this responsibility, having someone in my corner who only has my best interest in mind was a game-changer.

First, we focused on improving my personal effectiveness, structure, and leadership abilities. We worked on everything from time management, productivity, and goal-setting to emotional intelligence and the impact it has on decision making and communication. Through increasing my self-awareness and learning how to manage my inner critic, I am now able to bounce back from stressful situations much quicker. We then went on to optimize the business itself, setting a clear strategy for the long term and for this year and streamlining processes. Using the 10 Rockefeller habits to evaluate execution, I learned that there is so much unrealized potential in most businesses. I now understand the importance of a high-level vision, purpose, and values and then creating a clear plan to achieve that vision.

Partnering with Katy has made me a more focused and effective CEO while reducing my stress levels significantly. I benefited not only professionally but we’ve smoked out personal issues that have been influencing my business decisions. I recommend Katy to leaders who find themselves challenged by rapid growth or who want to get the most out of their company without sacrificing their life. Since working with her I’ve started seeing the value of having access to someone outside the company who objectively evaluates and optimizes the performance of the business, the team, and myself as a leader.

Thank you, Katy!

Pascal Basel

The coaching with Katy was awesome. You can really feel that she lives what she teaches and it was also a great addition to another coaching I did before as it gave me a deeper insight into PD. As a result, I was able to soften some blocks that were holding me back from enjoying what I already do.

Sukhdev Singh

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