Consulting · Coaching · Training · California

Build stronger leaders.
Increase team performance.
Cultivate more meaningful relationships.

Create positive futures.

Positive Futures helps you, leaders, teams, and organizations improve communication, strengthen relationships, increase accountability, and create healthier workplace cultures through consulting, coaching, and experiential learning.

Nine smiling women gathered together at a Positive Futures Women's Workshop, hand-lettered welcome charts behind themWomen's Workshop
“I realized having more confidence and self-awareness can make me a better leader, thank you Katie.”
Workshop participant, PG&E team-building workshop
“Katie, thank you! It worked! Our overall team functioning has definitely improved, just like I wanted!”
Jo Armstrong
VP of Hospitality, Hope Family Wines
Why Positive Futures

People aren't broken. They're running old patterns.

Our patterns aren't random. They're loyal. Lasting positive change doesn't happen by simply giving people more information. It happens when people increase their awareness, tell themselves the truth, develop practical skills, and practice new ways of thinking, communicating, and managing themselves.

Awareness.

Understand the stories you tell yourself and the patterns that drive your behavior, using the Enneagram and other awareness-building tools to reach our goals effectively.

Capacity.

Our ability to respond effectively to life and professional challenges with self-reflection, skills, and resilience. Capacity is built through practice, not theory. Skillfullness takes heart and gut.

Choice.

When awareness increases, people gain the capacity to choose differently. Learn to respond instead of react, and watch the positive ripple move through your team, your family, and your community.

The Positive Futures Method

Six steps from stuck to free.

Desire

The urgency to want something more for yourself or your organization.

Appreciation & awareness

Identify existing strengths. Self-reflection builds the desire to change.

Understanding

Compassion and personal responsibility for the patterns you find.

Skills & practice

Build capacity through practical skill development.

Evolve & integrate

New ways of being become lasting change.

Ripple effect

True freedom, and a positive ripple through families, workplaces, and communities.

Who we work with

An executive team, a nonprofit, a manager, or a room full of women: the purpose is the same.

Practical tools, increased capacity, and supportive experiences help people create positive relationships, stronger leadership, greater peace and success, and more fulfilling lives.

For

Organizations & Teams Consulting, training & development

We help leaders and managers build capacity, skills, confidence, motivation, and morale for a higher-functioning organization where people want to stay and grow.

What this looks like

  • 1:1 coaching for leaders and managers
  • Customized team meetings, trainings and workshops
  • Enneagram-based onboarding and skill integration
  • Co-developed systems, tools and processes
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For

Individuals Awareness & personal and professional development coaching

You may have a feeling something needs to change but you just aren't sure where to begin. Together, we'll increase awareness and capacity, understand the patterns holding you back, develop practical skills, and create a clear path forward.

What this looks like

  • Private coaching grounded in the Enneagram
  • Practical life skills and "life hacks"
  • Support through transitions and difficult relationships
  • Goals, and the steps to reach them
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For

Women & Community The Awareness to Action workshop series

Fun, motivating, experiential pathways for women to deepen self-awareness, build practical life skills, and create meaningful transformation, supported by a strong, connected community.

What this looks like

  • Workshop 1: Foundation of Awareness & the Enneagram
  • Workshop 2: Diving Deeper & Enneagram Subtypes
  • The annual Awareness to Action Retreat
  • Public workshops open to all
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“Katie brings an incredible depth of knowledge about the Enneagram and how to use it as a tool for growth and development. Her leadership style is warm, energetic and approachable, which creates a safe environment to connect and make real, impactful changes for ourselves.”
Jenn Prentice
Cal Poly Professor and Mom
Workshop participants seated on the floor, looking at an Enneagram diagram and flip charts by a sunny windowNext up · Oct 17

Programs · Women's Workshops

Awareness to Action: the women's workshop series

Calling all curious and growing women, whether you're in transition or simply seeking more fun, awareness, and skillfulness in life. A progressive, experiential series that moves from awareness to in-the-moment choice, in an intimate, supportive group of women.

  • Sat · Oct
    17
    2026
    Workshop 2: Diving Deeper & Enneagram Subtypes
    1–5 PM · $325 · appetizer & wine celebration at 5PM
  • Sat · Nov
    7
    2026
    Workshop 3: Awareness to Action Retreat
    10:30 AM–4:30 PM · $350 · lunch & refreshments included
  • Sat · Feb
    13
    2027
    Workshop 1: Foundation of Awareness & the Enneagram
    1–5 PM · $300 · appetizer & wine celebration at 5PM
See the full series →no woman left behind!

The deeper edge

The Enneagram: a fast track to self-awareness

The Enneagram and other awareness-building tools can fast-track our evolution and development. They help us understand ourselves and human nature on a deeper level.

We use the Enneagram Personality System to increase capacity, tap into self-love and our natural strengths, and learn how to make conscious choices for ourselves. Inside organizations it becomes a shared language for how each person communicates, leads, and decides under pressure.

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Clients & collaborators

Industry leaders and unique small businesses

  • PG&E
  • Hope Family Wines
  • Stewardship Travel for Good
  • Highway 1 Road Trip, Just Coast
  • The Bar Method
  • Meathead Movers
  • Race SLO
  • Avila Beach Golf Resort

Also PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

20+
years shaping teams, events and leaders on the Central Coast
3
awards for the Stewardship Travel program Katie co-created and leads
1
mission: evolving effective communication, leadership & teamwork
“Working with Katie has made a huge impact in my life! She helped me narrow in my purpose for my business, which gave me clarity and focus.”
Shannon Hanson, Fitness Coach & Business Owner

Are you ready?

Ready to show up as your best self, build a team that thrives, or grow a culture people believe in. The first step is a conversation.