Creative career coach for people who look successful but feel unfulfilled.

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Meet Kat Koh, Creative Career Coach

I help people make their most exquisite work.

We’ve always known that clarity of purpose is essential to a meaningful life.

It’s more true now than ever. Exquisite Work is finely tuned and profoundly human. It has that elusive “it factor”. It resonates in a way AI-generated output can’t.

Why? Exquisite Work is soulful, because you and I have a soul. When you make something from that place, people connect with it. Game recognize game.

Nobody else has your precise blend of mind-body-spirit, childhood, circumstances, experience, talents, personality, skills, taste, resources, community, gifts and vision.

And they never will. So, what is yours to do?

New offering

I offer group coaching for paid subscribers of my newsletter.

  • We meet every 2nd Friday at 11am PST / 2pm EST

  • Q&A: Recent topics: making art vs. making money, how to get and stay in flow, trends I’m seeing amongst my clients, personal branding, neurodivergence, how to live a creative, fulfilling life

  • Coaching: Get in the hot seat yourself, or watch in support

  • $11/month

Speaking & workshop engagements

Who I work with

Writers

Artists

Designers

Creative Directors

Filmmakers

Musicians

Architects

Where my clients create

“In every creative mind, you'll likely find a hamster wheel where fear, doubt, and uncertainty like to play. Kat has been instrumental in helping me break cyclical mindset patterns.

She’s helped me to create momentum and excel as an empowering, compassionate, and present Creative Director — not only to my global team of designers and developers, but my sweet family and the entrepreneurial projects meaningful to my journey. Priceless.”

—Stephanie Kanoeola Megumi Jeong, VP Global Brand + Creative at AppLovin

We spend a lot of time working. Some people are here:

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HATE WORK/ EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

MEH

LOVE MY WORK

If you’re reading this, you probably want to get there:

But finding authentic, creative, fulfilling work can be hard to do alone.

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HATE WORK/ EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

MEH

LOVE MY WORK

Lessons from coaching creatives for over a decade:

  • Doing “what's practical" or "looks impressive" only gets you so far. Sooner or later, you'll want your brain to crackle and your heart to sing.

  • We spend about 87,000 hours working. Might as well be good.

  • AI is unprecedented — it's changing us and the nature of work, fast. You won’t regret making friends with this reality.

  • An existential crisis is a terrible thing to waste.