Kate MacGowan

Founder | Strategic Adviser | Trauma-Informed Certified Coach

Kate MacGowan is a founder, strategic adviser, and trauma-informed coach with more than twenty years of international experience spanning crisis management, strategic communications, business development, fundraising, and leadership advisory. Working across the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, she has advised private clients, family offices, companies and charities, helping leaders navigate complexity, manage risk, and create meaningful legacies.

Expertise

Founder & Entrepreneurial Leadership

As a founder, Kate has built companies, secured investment, and helped bring new ventures and legacy projects to life. Her experience includes raising seed funding and start-up capital, supporting organisational growth, and enabling funding for charitable and philanthropic initiatives.

Strategic Advisory & Crisis Management

Kate advises private clients, companies, family offices, and charities on strategic decision-making during periods of growth, transition, and uncertainty. Her work encompasses crisis management, strategic communications, business intelligence, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, and long-term planning.

Trauma-Informed Coaching

As a qualified Trauma-Informed Certified Coach (TICC), Kate works with individuals and organisations seeking to better understand the impact of trauma on performance, relationships, leadership, and well-being. Her work combines practical insight with a deep understanding of human behaviour and adaptation.

Service & Philanthropic Engagement

Alongside her professional work, Kate has worked in the victim and crime support sectors and has fundraised with organisations and individuals connected to the military and UK Special Forces. This experience has given her a unique perspective on resilience, recovery, service, and the realities of high-pressure environments.

“Kate takes an intentionally integrative and hybrid approach to her work, combining professional experience with her own personal experience of trauma. Having studied and worked extensively within both fields, Kate made a conscious decision to work at the intersection of psychological understanding and professional practice, weaving the two together.”

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