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I help organizations and teams streamline workflows, improve performance, and deliver lasting results. With 20+ years of experience across Fortune 500 companies, e-commerce, and healthcare, I bring a proven mix of Lean, Agile, and facilitation expertise to every engagement. ✅ Process Optimization: Mapping workflows, simplifying operations, and identifying improvement opportunities that boost efficiency and scalability. ✅ Agile & Lean Leadership: Driving continuous improvement, program delivery, and cultural alignment. ✅ Operational Excellence: Implementing practical systems that create clarity, accountability, and measurable impact. Beyond consulting, I excel at leading operations directly. I drive day-to-day execution, stabilize business processes, and help teams regain rhythm during growth or transition. I’ve successfully guided cross-functional operations in dynamic environments, bringing structure to scaling teams and building repeatable systems that support both performance and culture. My approach combines practical strategy with hands-on execution, ensuring that recommendations don’t just look good on paper but deliver real results in motion. I’m also the author of Tilt: How Poker Reveals the Secrets to Resilient Leadership and Clear Decisions, where I translate lessons from the poker table into tools for leading under pressure. That same perspective helps me guide teams with clarity, composure, and follow-through. Clients hire me when they need a strategic consultant to optimize operations, a facilitator to guide improvement conversations, or a hands-on leader to help their team adopt Lean and Agile practices. I provide clarity, structure, and actionable solutions that sustain results. Let’s connect to explore how I can strengthen your systems and deliver lasting results. Message me today to discuss your project needs!

You're leading through something hard. Maybe your organization is growing faster than your systems can keep up with. Maybe you're navigating a restructuring, a strategic pivot, or a merger that's left your team unsettled. Maybe the people dynamics just aren't working and nobody can quite put their finger on why. You know what needs to happen. Getting your team there is the hard part. That's where I come in. I'm a Leadership and Executive Coach with 18+ years working inside organizations across energy, technology, finance, retail, construction, and professional services. I've coached C-suite leaders at JP Morgan, Bosch, Roche, and CVS. I work with founders, managers, senior executives, and entire teams because leadership challenges don't respect job titles. And I bring something most coaches can't: I don't just work on the people. I work on the whole system around them. Goals, processes, workflows, technology adoption, and team dynamics, all together, because that's how businesses actually run. What I work on: Leading through change and growth Most leaders are underprepared for how disorienting real change is for the people around them. I coach leaders to navigate uncertainty without losing their team's trust, maintain momentum when the ground is shifting, and bring people along instead of leaving them behind. Whether you're scaling, restructuring, or pivoting, I help you lead the transition in a way that actually holds. Communication and team dynamics Poor communication is almost never about saying the wrong words. It's about misaligned expectations, unclear accountability, unspoken tensions, and leaders who don't realize the signal they're sending. I work with leaders and teams to surface what's actually going on, reset how people interact, and build communication habits that make collaboration faster and less painful. OKR and Goal Alignment A team that doesn't know what it's working toward can't perform. I implement OKRs from executive alignment down to team-level action so everyone understands the priorities, how their work connects to them, and how to make decisions when things shift. Goals people actually use, not targets that collect dust. Processes and systems I find where work is breaking down and redesign it so things flow. Unclear ownership, inconsistent processes, duplicated effort, and bottlenecks that nobody has time to fix are all things I've fixed across dozens of organizations. The result is practical, sustainable ways of working that your team actually adopts and sticks to. AI and technology adoption Rolling out new tools and technology only works if your people actually change how they work. I've trained leaders and teams on AI and digital transformation at some of the largest corporations in America. I manage the human side of tech change so adoption actually happens, not just in the rollout plan, but in how people work every day. Why this combination matters Most coaches work on leadership in isolation. Most consultants fix processes without touching the people. Most change managers handle the rollout without building the capability to sustain it. I work across all of it because in a real organization, none of it is separate. When your people, your goals, your processes, and your systems are all pointing in the same direction, the results are completely different from fixing just one of them. Results: +40% employee engagement through coaching-led performance improvement 25% faster delivery after leadership alignment and OKR implementation 30-50% cycle time reduction through streamlined processes and ways of working 100+ leaders and teams coached across 6 industries over 18 years Guided organizations through AI adoption, digital transformation, major restructurings, and rapid growth phases Credentials: ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | OKR Coach | SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) | Lean Practitioner | 18+ years in-business experience If you're ready to have a real conversation about what's not working, let's talk.

🎯 Stuck Between "We Need Structure" and "We Can't Slow Down to Build It?" I Can Help. 🎯 Enterprise transformation is messy. Fast-growing companies outgrow intuition. And new consultants will deliver slide decks that gather dust instead of operating systems your teams can actually run. Got big ambitions but your operation feels chaotic? I translate strategy into executable roadmaps, align cross-functional chaos, and build operating models that scale—without the constant firefighting. My Stats: Transformation Director & Chief of Staff Partner | 15+ Years | $40M+ in Synergies Delivered | 180K+ Employees Enabled Not happy with generic frameworks? I design operating systems tailored to how your organization actually works. 🚀 Real Results That Speak for Themselves ✦ $40M projected synergy from cybersecurity maturity programs across identity, defense, and GRC ✦ 99% adoption in 90 days on enterprise ServiceNow rollout across global IT transformation ✦ 75% faster adoption of Lean/Agile frameworks across cyber and IT teams ✦ 180K+ employees enabled through global change strategies and cybersecurity programs ✦ 110K+ users migrated in enterprise Active Directory transformation with zero business disruption ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rising Talent on Upwork "Kate brings clarity to complexity. She doesn't just manage projects—she architects operating models that empower teams to execute independently." —Former VP, Platform Engineering, Fortune 50 Healthcare Company “Kate Feiner is brilliant, energetic, and insightful. She has a compassionate approach to leadership with a strong bias towards action and customer satisfaction (internal and external). At a recent project at RTX together, Kate was project lead to spearhead a game changing facilitation leadership course that will impact as many as 180,000 team members. Kate is a joy to work with and has A+ level talent.“ — Senior Fellow Quality Engineering at Collins Aerospace, an RTX Business Here's What You Get ✦ Operating model design – map how work really flows, identify bottlenecks, design future-state processes ✦ Executive roadmaps & strategy execution – turn vision into clear, milestone-based delivery plans ✦ Portfolio & program governance – intake, prioritization, and oversight that balances risk, funding, and capacity ✦ Process optimization – current-state mapping, RACI, SIPOC, decision rights, and lightweight governance ✦ Chief of Staff partnership – connective tissue between leadership and delivery, aligning product, engineering, ops, and security ✦ Change management & adoption – drive behavior change and cultural transformation alongside technical rollouts ✦ Executive dashboards & reporting – real-time visibility into risk, performance, and program health ✦ AI-enabled transformation – practical application of generative AI and automation to improve efficiency and insight ✦ Tool architecture – workflow design in Microsoft, Jira, Monday, Planview, Google Workspace (process first, tool second) ✦ Lean, Agile, SAFe frameworks – embed operational discipline and continuous improvement into delivery teams ✦ Cybersecurity strategy & operations – risk metrics, maturity assessments, compliance, and cyber portfolio management ✦ Leadership coaching & enablement – develop operating cadence, strengthen decision-making, scale executive capacity I Keep You Aligned Every Step of the Way I ask the questions others miss, design for how your organization actually behaves (not how it "should"), and make sure we're building operating systems—not just documentation. You'll get clarity your teams can execute on tomorrow, with ownership and adoption baked in. ✅ Ready to Get Off Defense and Back on Offense? Whether you're a founder scaling beyond intuition, a CEO navigating a re-org, or a leader who needs processes defined before layering in AI or automation—I've got the experience and judgment to make it happen. I'm most effective working with: ✦ Founders and CEOs scaling beyond founder-led execution ✦ AI and software companies moving from "smart people, messy ops" to repeatable delivery ✦ Organizations that need operating models designed before automation or AI ✦ Teams looking for senior judgment and clarity—not junior documentation Engagements are typically fractional, advisory, or milestone-based, depending on what's needed. 📩 Send me a message or invite me to your project. Let's bring clarity to your operation and build something that scales. Be well, and see you soon Kate

With over 16 years of experience across industries as far-ranging and disparate as aircraft maintenance, ecommerce fulfillment, oil and gas, immigration law, healthcare, and education, among others, am proud to be entering a fourth year as a one-hundred-percent, location-independent consultant. I endeavor to continue to LEARN HARD and WORK HARDER! I have led multiple global organizations that range in size from 50 to 300 personnel and specialize in e-tail, e-commerce, and retail migration. I also have a 'traditional' logistics skillset, especially when it comes to aircraft operations, airframe logistics, project management, inventory control, and continuous process improvement. Bottom-line is that I produce high-quality work on time, on cost, and on spec and which is backed by not one, but TWO Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certifications (USAF and GE). I have a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Area Studies with a minor in Russian and general engineering as well as a Master of Science in Logistics Management. I completed all coursework for my MBA at Strathclyde Business School in Scotland in September 2019. I am a bibliophile and runner that is passionate about leadership, learning, management, think tanks, writing, politics, and current events. Thank you in advance for your time.

Hi, I'm Carly! I'm a brand expert with niche expertise in B2B, tech, and professional services. If you're looking for a lean & efficient brand team with deep expertise on all topics brand, I'd love to help. ❇️ 𝐇𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞" 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝟑𝟎-𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. ❇️ As a Top 1% Expert Vetted Upworker with a 100% Job Success Score, I've helped 170+ brands create high-performance platforms for growth. I've worked with clients like HP, Atlassian, the European Union, Johnson & Johnson, Conservation International, and Dartmouth College to help them develop distinct and compelling go-to-market strategies. My services include: ➕LOGOS + VISUAL IDENTITY DESIGN // Logos, color palettes, and typography systems that command attention. Graphic design for packaging and marketing assets ensure cohesion and impact at every touchpoint. ➕BRAND MESSAGING & POSITIONING STRATEGY // Define your target audience with precision, chart your own unique market territory, and solidify your messaging architecture. This work leads to resonant, distinct, and human website copy, brand taglines, and campaign concepts. ➕BRANDED WEBSITES & UI/UX DESIGN // Deliver striking & conversion optimized digital experiences. Specialized in Framer and Webflow. ➕MARKET RESEARCH & COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE // Gain a 20/20 vision of your market opportunity through surveys, focus groups, and research interviews. Put a finger on the pulse of emerging market trends. Zero in on new segments or flag competitive gaps. ➕BRAND NAMING // Receive distinct and memorable brand names that inspire prospects of what’s possible with you. ⭐️ WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY ⭐️ Here’s what others are saying about working with me as a Top 1% Upworker.👇🏻 → “This was hands down the best experience I have had with any contractor. Carly spent the time to map out deliverables, thoroughly understand my needs, and then she executed flawlessly.” → "Carly is one of the very best contractors I have worked with. She worked as a true collaborator who took my business's needs on board and delivered outstanding work product. Throughout the project, she was highly insightful, flexible, and communicative." → “I have been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and can honestly say Carly is one of the most efficient freelancers I have worked with. She is a consummate professional who clearly has mastered her craft....she was responsive, delivered according to tight deadlines and the end result was superb.” → "Carly is a remarkably talented marketing consultant. It was an absolute pleasure working with her, from discussing her innovative approach to receiving the final product, which felt like a gift. Over the years, I have hired many consultants, but none have achieved the level of precision and excellence that Carly has. She's the real deal!" → “In my years of experience working with people, Carly ranks among the top 1%. She is highly communicative, professional, responsive, and detail-oriented.” → “Carly is incredible. Everyone involved in the project was blown away by the final product. She was able to capture the essence of the brand perfectly, and demonstrated an ability to articulate that messaging at a really high level. I could not recommend her work enough.” +Keywords for Upwork search: brand strategy, brand kit, branding, brand identity design, brand visuals, brand logo design, brand colors, brand typography, brand system, corporate branding, brand naming, brand messaging, brand positioning, taglines, slogans, website design, market research, competitive intelligence, competitor analysis, sales enablement, conversion optimization, website design, brand UX, brand UI, go-to-market strategy, product branding, product naming, creative director, art director, visual identity design, brand agency

Most high-performers I coach aren't lazy; they're climbing the wrong mountain. Over the last 17 years I've helped 125+ entrepreneurs, founders, and professionals create clarity, rebuild momentum, and execute consistently without burning out. The business is growing, the goals are being hit, but something feels off. They've built momentum in a direction that no longer fits who they are. They feel it in the Sunday dread, in the wins that feel hollow, in the exhaustion of optimizing a life that was never fully theirs. That's not a motivation problem; that's a misalignment problem. Before our first session, you'll complete the North Star Assessment, an AI-guided clarity process that uncovers your goals, motivations, strengths, blind spots, and sources of misalignment. This allows us to skip weeks of surface-level coaching and go directly to what matters. From there, you get access to Forge OS, my proprietary behavioral tracking system that identifies patterns in your focus, energy, consistency, and execution between sessions. We coach reality instead of guesses. I frequently work with entrepreneurs, founders, creatives, and ADHD professionals who struggle with consistency, focus, overwhelm, and execution. My Coaching Framework: Clarity: Find the Right Mountain Focus: Eliminate competing priorities Systems: Build sustainable habits Execution: Weekly accountability Momentum: Compound wins over time Clients typically leave with: ✅ A clear 90-day direction ✅ A simplified execution plan ✅ Better habits and consistency ✅ More energy and less overwhelm ✅ A business/career aligned with their strengths and identity What I bring: 18+ years of entrepreneurial and coaching experience, 2000 hours of coaching, 100+ verified five-star reviews, 10 businesses built and scaled across Canada and Colombia, trilingual coaching in English, French and Spanish, and deep specialization in behavioral systems, execution consistency, and identity alignment. How I work: Short focused engagements to start, typically 4 to 12 weeks. Clear goals, weekly execution reviews, and structured accountability. Practical systems you can maintain without coaching dependency. Real results, not endless sessions. Coaching experience spans entrepreneurs, agency owners, executives, digital nomads, startup founders, freelancers, and professionals navigating major life and business transitions. The goal isn't to build a business you can escape from. It's to build one you never want to retire from. If you're a founder or high-performer who's done climbing someone else's mountain, send me a message describing where you're stuck in one sentence. We'll quickly see if working together makes sense. Coach Alex Côté Founder, The PurposePreneur Movement™ Alignment Coach · Behavioral Systems · Execution · Identity 🧠 Core Services & Expertise High-Performance Coaching for Entrepreneurs ADHD Coaching for Founders & Creatives Accountability & Execution Systems Mindset & Productivity Coaching Burnout Recovery & Energy Management Purpose & Identity Alignment Leadership, Focus & Decision-Making Coaching