‘But Katherine, I don’t know you well enough yet’

Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet? How rude of me!
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I'm Katherine! A social climate scientist 🤓 and coach for sustainability professionals 🥳.
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Here are four rambling realities about me:
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1. I’m from outside Seattle in the Evergreen State 🌲, the top north west of the US, where we’re known for lots of rain and being outdoorsy (that’s pretty much my style: fleece/waterproofs/running shoes). I now live outside the Lake District in the UK – another wet west coast - which makes me feel right at home.

Backpacking in the Lakes in 2020 when I moved to England

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2. For as long as I can remember I wanted to do environmental work – I wasn’t sure what that meant when I was little and that took me to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to find out. Seems counter-intuitive flying 4000 miles away – but I wasn’t that discerning as an 18 year old – and the University of St Andrews was very good at marketing itself as the ‘flagship degree’ in Sustainable Development.

I absolutely loved St Andrews and co-founding a Transition initiative there was a highlight of my life. I don't know if I'll ever beat the family feeling and love for this team

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3. I love sharing tea with people! Even though I know it’s about system changes, I almost never let myself buy a hot drink in a single-use take away container. It’s one of those things where I feel like I’m reducing waste, although it leads me to being that awkward person often turning down lovely gestures of connection (e.g. 'can I buy you a coffee?'). ​

Bubble Tea was one of those 10x per year exceptions, I often cannot resist that chewy, ridiculous drink, even though it comes in a single-use disposable container

4. From when I was five years old I’ve been shovelling mulch with my parents most summers. I had my own little red wheelbarrow at one point! Yet it took me 28 years before I boutght my own wheelbarrow to spread mushroom compost 🍄 in my yard!

At 34 years old, I now look after fruit and veg plants in an allotment (which is currently keeping me happy with tasty leeks and kale); flowers at my block of flats (where I dug in 800 new daffodils this autumn, I forking love spring bulbs!); and an orchard around the corner where I get to learn for a master gardener (this man plants 100k bulbs in my town every year – what a legend – I want to be him when I grow up).

At my allotment in the autumn (leeks, turnips and beets, oh my)

Got any other questions about who you would be coaching with? Send me a message!