About
Who I am, what I bring, why Kahu Coaching
When everything shakes, what steadies you most? Knowing who you are.
My journey
Luxembourg, England, France, Belgium. Several careers. A burnout. And one conviction earned through lived experience: the people who navigate turbulence best aren’t the most stable ones, they’re the ones who’ve learned to steer using their own inner resources.
I’m Katia, and my professional journey is anything but a straight line. Communications, HR, international events. I’ve worked across nonprofits and global companies alike. Each context, each culture, each environment taught me something new about what actually moves between people.
Just before turning 30, I moved to London with no job and no place to live. I rebuilt from zero. Up against cultural difference and radically unfamiliar ways of working and relating, I learned to keep moving by drawing on what I genuinely had: resilience, adaptability, and a deep capacity for empathy. It turned out to be one of the best lesson in navigation I ever got.
But beneath that ability to reinvent myself were real vulnerabilities: perfectionism, the need to please, a hard time holding boundaries. At 38, burnout stripped things back to the essential: learning to truly know myself, beyond the expectations, the roles, the masks. That’s where I found my compass.
That same crossing led me to train as a coach at B.A.O Elan Vital (now Gen7). It’s where I discovered what biologist Olivier Hamant calls robustness: not the stiffness of what holds firm, but the aliveness of what adapts. A robust person isn’t someone who never wobbles. It’s someone who can move through uncertainty, through friction, and stay whole.
Today I work as a trainer-coach. With individuals, teams, or groups in training, my starting point is always the same: begin from experience, activate what’s already there, and create the conditions for something essential to become visible, and real. Like the Kahu hawk, which climbs high to see further, I hold both the close and the wide: what’s happening between two people, and what it reveals about the larger picture.
I know what it’s like to look outward for something you already carry. I know what changes the day you find it. That’s the shift I work towards, with people and teams ready to navigate differently. The journey towards your authentic self.
My mission and value
Every person, every team already carries what they need. The resources are there, sometimes buried, sometimes just waiting.
My role isn’t to bring answers from the outside. It’s to create the conditions where what’s already there becomes visible and actionable.
Four values shape everything I do.
Authenticity
Masks are exhausting. Behind a role, a title, a polished front, what holds over time is always what's real.
Trust
It's the ground beneath any genuine change, in yourself or in a team. It begins the moment someone feels truly heard, without judgement.
Autonomy
You are the expert on your life. Your organisation is the expert on its own reality. My job is to help you see more clearly, not to choose for you.
Freedom
Your path is yours. So is your team's. No coaching or training relationship should lock you into a model that doesn't fit.
My training
Walking alongside someone on their path is a commitment I take seriously. Which is why learning isn’t something I check off a list, it’s a continuous practice.
I trained at BAO Elan Vital (Gen7), completing the Explorer and Discoverer cycles in Life Coaching, then the Trainer Coach programme centred on group dynamics. Masterclasses in burnout, transitions, and emotional work in coaching complete this specialised foundation. To this I add regular peer supervision, to keep challenging my practice with the same rigour I bring to every accompaniment.
In 2026, I added sound therapy to my practice (tuning forks, Tibetan singing bowls and crystal bowls) to expand my range of accompaniment tools.
Earlier in my journey, my Master’s in Information and Communication (University of Liège) taught me to read what plays out between cultures and codes. A perspective that my international trajectory then made real.
What Coaching actually is...and isn't!
Coaching isn’t consulting. It isn’t therapy. It’s a structured, safe, action-oriented space where you become the lead actor in your own change.
Through deep listening, questioning, and reflection, I support each person in seeing more clearly, drawing on what’s already there, and building changes that hold because they come from within. My goal isn’t to make you dependent on the process. It’s the opposite. To leave you freer, more self-directed, more anchored in what’s genuinely true for you.
For an individual, it’s time you carve out for yourself: to slow down, reconnect, and build the clarity and confidence to move forward with more intention. For a team or organisation, it’s a way of creating the conditions where everyone can contribute fully and where performance and people don’t pull in opposite directions.
Why Kahu Coaching ?
Kahu Coaching was born from a simple desire: to create a warm, supportive space where potential can surface. A space where “either/or” gives way to “and.” A space where autonomy and responsibility grow because you are the one driving your own change.
The name “Kahu” holds this intention.
In Hawaiian culture, the kahu is the one who cares for an animal. Not as an owner, but as a guardian and protector, entrusted with something of great value.
Kahu is also the Australasian harrier, a striking bird of prey native to New Zealand, known for soaring gracefully above its territory. A symbol of clear vision, perspective, and freedom.
Kahu Coaching brings these two meanings together: a safe, caring space where I hold your journey with attention, help you rise above the noise to see further, and walk alongside you as you uncover the resources already within you and find the path that is truly yours.