Welcome! I’m Kathy Caprino, and I’m happy you’re here.
I’d like to share a bit about my work as a “Finding Brave” career and leadership coach, writer, speaker, executive trainer and educator. Overall, I’m dedicated to supporting true breakthroughs in how professionals and leaders are experiencing their relationships with themselves, their work, their teams and organizations. Today, I help seasoned professionals navigate career growth and reinvention, visibility, impact and leadership in an AI-driven world.
My first 18 years at work
I spent 18 years in corporate leadership roles, rising to the VP level in publishing, marketing, and product management and development. From the outside, it looked successful. And for many years, it was exciting and rewarding.
But as I approached my 40s, something shifted.
Despite the outward success, I felt increasingly disconnected from my work and from myself. The environments I was in often felt misaligned and difficult. I couldn’t speak openly or show up as I truly was. My health suffered. My sense of purpose faded.
I knew I needed change – and I sought help. I worked with therapists, career counselors, and mentors. But nothing created the transformation I needed.
Looking back, I hadn’t yet found the courage to make the kind of change that requires not just insight—but brave, different action.
The breakdown/breakthrough moment emerges
After a deeply difficult layoff following 9/11, I reached a breaking point.
In a pivotal conversation with my therapist, I realized something simple but life-changing:
I wanted to help people—not hurt people, and not continue being hurt in the process.
That clarity changed everything.
I made a bold pivot—earning a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, training as a coach, and beginning a new path as a therapist, career and leadership coach, consultant and writer. I eventually founded my own business, dedicated to helping others build careers and lives that feel aligned, resilient, and truly rewarding.
Today’s focus
Over the past 20 years, I’ve worked with thousands of professionals globally and partnered with organizations including the United Nations, Amazon, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and many more.
Through this work, I’ve seen a consistent pattern:
Highly capable, accomplished professionals are not lacking talent or drive. They’re often held back by deeper, often unseen forces—patterns that limit their resilience in the face of change, keep them from being fully visible and valued, and prevent them from achieving the level of impact and reward they want most.
My work helps uncover and shift those patterns so that professionals can:
- Experience the resilience to navigate uncertainty, change, and challenge without losing themselves
- Expand their visibility and voice so their value is recognized and respected
- Step into greater leadership and impact in ways that feel aligned and authentic
- And create the level of success, reward, and fulfillment that reflects who they truly are
I’m also a Senior Forbes Contributor, where my work has reached more than 41 million readers, a LinkedIn Top Voice with a million LI followers and subscribers, and the author of two books, including The Most Powerful You, which explores the seven most common confidence and power gaps that hold professionals back from reaching their fullest potential—and how to close them for good.
In addition, I host the Finding Brave podcast, ranked in the top 1.5% of 3.7 million podcasts globally, where I speak with leading experts, entrepreneurs, and change-makers about what it truly takes to move forward and create meaningful, lasting success.
The Most Powerful You book and trainings
My latest book, The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Paths (which was nominated by The Next Big Idea Club as one of their Summer 2020 picks and consistently ranking in the top 100 audiobooks on Amazon’s “Women in Business” list, and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese and Polish), and its companion course The Most Powerful You, address this epidemic of power and confidence challenges in women and share my own coaching strategies — as well as powerful advice and solutions from over 30 national experts in key fields essential to women’s success — on how to close these power gaps for good and thrive to the highest degree.
I’m also committed to helping organizations — through my Most Powerful You workshops and other trainings — in building new types of work cultures that can help all groups rise, thrive, be valued, and reach their highest potential.
Finding Brave podcast
In 2018, I launched a new podcast — Finding Brave — (now a Top 100 Apple Career Podcast ranked in the top 1.5% of over 3.7 million podcasts worldwide) featuring many of the nation’s top business and entrepreneurial experts, organizational leaders, bestselling authors, Pulitzer-prize nominees and winners, creatives, entertainment figures and other movers and shakers who share their unique stories, insights and strategies that help listeners move forward to achieve the success and reward they long for.
My Ultimate Goal & Vision:
My ultimate goal is to support professionals to build greater resilience, visibility, positive impact, and reward in their careers and professional lives, and navigate times of flux with confidence and strength.
The Personal Side
I’m also a very proud mom of two amazing adult children, a lifelong singer and performer, and an avid tennis player.
Music and creative expression have always been a central part of my life. I’ve had the privilege of performing at venues including Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, as well as internationally in Italy, Vienna, and Prague through performance tours with The Wilton Singers in Connecticut.
I’ve also performed and recorded with my ex-husband, renowned jazz percussionist Arthur Lipner. (Check out our Meditative Audio Companion to Breakdown, Breakthrough!) As an accomplished singer, writer, and speaker, I coach others who wish to bring forward their creative talents and abilities to the forefront, which can transform how we work and live.
You can check out some of my recordings here.
To learn more about my Programs and Services and read first-hand how others have benefited from our work together, please visit my Career Help page, my Kathy Caprino AI digital clone, and check out my praise page and recommendations on my LinkedIn profile.
If you long for deeper professional success, resilience, fulfillment and purpose in your work, I hope you’ll reach out. Please contact me at info@kathycaprino.com or complete my coaching form here.
I’d love to help you access your bravest, Most Powerful You to experience your ultimate career success, positive impact, and fulfillment.
Thank you!
