Life doesn’t always unfold as planned and separation is never just about the end of a relationship. It can trigger questions about identity, confidence, finances, career, parenting and the future you imagined for yourself.
Many people going through a big life change choose to engage with a life, leadership & transition coach.
What is a life, leadership & transition coach?
A life, leadership & transition coach is someone you engage for one-on-one support to assist you in rebuilding your self-confidence or to rediscover yourself.
They help you to navigate significant transitions, making sense of the noise that inhibits you from taking meaningful steps towards the life you want to create – to reconnect you with your strengths, gaining clarity and confidence to design your next chapter.
Why should I hire a life, leader & transition coach?
If you’re sitting in the discomfort and disorder of change and trying to make sense of competing priorities, emotions and expectations you can benefit from the services of a life, leader and transition coach. How they can help:
- rebuilding confidence and identity – rediscover who you are beyond your relationship, title or responsibilities
- navigating separation and major life change – create stability and clarity while managing the emotional and practical realities of transition
- career reinvention and returning to work – explore new opportunities, redefine success and step confidently into your next chapter
- leadership through uncertainty – continue to lead effectively while navigating significant personal change
- business owners and founders – balance the demands of growing a business while managing life’s unexpected challenges
- balance and wellbeing – reduce overwhelm, strengthen boundaries and reconnect with what matters most
Meet the life, leadership & transition coach in our Network
Katherine Gokavi-Whaley – She Leads Coaching

Katherine is an executive coach, leadership mentor and founder of SheLeads Coaching, with more than 30 years of experience helping individuals, leaders and business owners navigate change, uncertainty and growth.
Having studied psychology and drawing on a career that spans senior executive, COO and CEO roles, Katherine combines practical experience with a deeply supportive coaching approach. She specialises in helping women navigate significant life, career and leadership transitions, including separation, divorce, career reinvention, returning to work, business ownership and rebuilding confidence after major life change.
She doesn’t just coach a career or wellbeing in isolation. She helps create alignment across work, relationships, health, confidence and future aspirations.Her coaching style is warm, practical, empowering and focused on helping women thrive not just survive through life’s transitions.
One conversation can change the trajectory of your next chapter. You don’t need to have all the answers before reaching out. You simply need the courage to take the first step. Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed or ready to embrace a new beginning, Katherine will meet you where you are and help you move forward with clarity, confidence and purpose.
