KAT TANSEY is an inspirational coach, author and teacher. Kat began her coaching career in the 70s, training thousands of people and consulting with over fifty corporations to help them meet the challenges of change.
Intrigued by the difference between what management books said happened in organizations and what she experienced moving up the ladder in real life, Kat developed a class for UCLA’s Management School on Organizational Power and Politics. Her course was a powerful training and coaching experience that helped her students transform their often painful organizational lives into rewarding growth experiences.
After twenty years of helping people and organizations change, Kat created and co-authored Winning the Change Game, based on her own Change Model. Her book came out in the late 80s just when corporations began merging and downsizing. Kat was brought in as Vice President of a thriving outplacement firm that provided coaching for employees affected by organizational change. Her Change Model proved immensely effective in coaching people through their often difficult transition of dealing with loss, anger and uncertainty and moving on to emerge with confidence and enthusiasm and exciting new directions in their lives and careers.
Then, after many years as an energetic champion of change, Kat herself was faced with a big one – she was literally laid flat by an unknown illness which would later be called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She began a lonely chapter in her life, a personal journey into the unknown. To get well, she discovered, she had to learn how to shift from fast-paced Doing to peaceful Being.
Kat’s new book, Choosing to Be: Lessons in Living from a Feline Zen Master, is the heartwarming (somewhat fictionalized) story of how Kat found her way back to an active life. In her book, she tells how she found a new way of seeing the world, and learned that Being is more important than Doing.
As a result of her own profound experiences with personal change and her years of experience in helping scores of individuals cope with their own transitions, Kat was recently chosen as the Exceptional Wisdom Scholar on personal change. In this role, Kat will continue to write about the latest developments in the subject of personal change, an issue ever more important in view of the accelerating pace of change in our society. Her latest book, Walking with Wisdom, is scheduled for publication in late 2009.
Kat’s Coaching Programs:
Individual coaching is a personalized approach for express results.
A 3-month group coaching program includes weekly group calls for sustained progress.
A bi-monthly teleseminar series that provides inspiration, ideas, and reinforcement.