Katherine Nobles

Katherine Nobles is an experienced leadership coach and facilitator who works with individuals, teams and organisations across a variety of industries. She has especially enjoyed facilitating career and leadership development programs for professionals in technology, education and in the creative industries. Katherine has coached thousands of individuals and enjoys working with rising leaders and new managers as they grow their careers and cultivate positive teams. Topics that she specialises in include career development, leadership development, team dynamics, feedback, resilience and coaching skills for managers.

A former career educator and lecturer at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Katherine has led hundreds of workshops and taught several courses focused on professional and leadership development. She is currently an instructor with Stanford Continuing Studies where she creates and teaches several leadership courses for professionals across the United States.

Katherine’s early career was in design at a marketing agency. More recently, she served as a senior manager within learning and development at a Silicon Valley tech unicorn, where she led leadership development programs to foster a strong work culture. Katherine has worked independently as a coach and facilitator since 2019.

She is a certified professional co-active coach through the Co-Active Training Institute and a professional certified coach through the International Coaching Federation. She is also trained in Gallup’s CliftonStrengths assessment and holds a B.A. in Communication from Virginia Tech and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from William & Mary.