Kate Harrington-Rosen
Kate Harrington-Rosen (she/they) is a certified leadership coach and conflict transformation guide who helps queer leaders create abundant, purpose-driven lives and careers that reflect their vision. After 15 years of experience in nonprofit and higher education leadership, Kate founded Fruitful Coaching and Consulting with the goal of supporting queer and trans leaders - and the teams they lead- to thrive. Fruitful works with both individuals and organizations, and is proud to support a diverse roster of clients across industries, including tech, K-12 and higher education, hospitality, performing arts, graphic design, mental health, and more. Clients love Kate’s warm and creative approach to coaching, and consistently report feeling seen, heard, and empowered to take bold, aligned action. Fruitful Coaching and Consulting helps clients cultivate their vision of success, with a focus on sustainability and joy.
Kate is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, a trained mediator through Chicago's Center for Conflict Resolution, a community-based transformative justice practitioner, and a certified End-of-Life doula. They hold a BA in Women and Gender Studies from McGill University and an MS in Communications from Northwestern University. If you see her in the wild, ask her about the queer co-operative living space she co-founded.
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Selected certifications and Training:
2012
50 hour Crisis Intervention, Sexual Assault, and Domestic Violence Prevention Training
Sexual Assault Resource Center
2016
Mental Health First Aid
Presence Health
2017
15 hour Harm-Reduction Training Series
Chicago House
2021
Restorative Justice Facilitation Intensive
Northwestern University
2021
Mediation Certification
Center for Conflict Resolution
2023
End-of-Life Doula Certification
University of Vermont
2024
Associate Certified Coach
International Coaching Federation
My Coaching and Facilitation Values
Critical Hope
Critical hope blends a clear-eyed analysis of systemic oppression and its impacts with a deep belief in the possibility of meaningful, liberatory change at the individual and community level.
My understanding of critical hope, and the definition of it that I use, comes from “Cultivating Critical Hope: The Too Often Forgotten Dimension of Critical Leadership Development” by Bishundat, Velazquez Phillip, and Gore
Slowness + Sustainability (moving at the speed of trust)*
Hustle culture creates leaders who prioritize speed over depth, and progress over intention. I guide leaders to identify and honor what a sustainable pace looks like for them, offering an opportunity to practice divesting from hustle culture and prioritizing relationships over outcomes.
Silliness + imperfect action
Inviting silliness and imperfect action into our work allows us to embrace playfulness, normalize experimentation, and explore the possibilities that open up for us when we take ourselves less seriously.
Feedback
Normalizing mutual, constructive feedback and insight in our work together helps create relationships built on honesty, trust, and resilience.
What we pay attention to grows*
Attention is sacred, precious, and finite, and the choices we make about where to place ours define the lives we grow for ourselves.
Emergence
Emergence honors the messy, unfolding nature of growth by allowing space for new insights, possibilities, and transformations to arise organically and at their own pace.
Small is good, small is all*
Small steps are the most relevant unit of measure. How we are at the small scale - in our daily interactions, routines, rituals, and choices - becomes how we are at the large scale - in our policies, leadership styles, and legacies.
Gratitude
We don’t have to do the work of growing, healing, and changing - we get to. It’s an honor and a privilege to support you on your journey of intentional change, and I invite gratitude into our work together as a philosophy and a grounding technique.
*these three values were introduced to me by adrienne maree brown in her book Emergent Strategy, and my understanding and practice of them is both informed by and indebted to her work.