Kate is passionate about sharing how positive psychology and the practical aspects of mindfulness can be used to help us live and work with greater awareness. For details about how Kate has helped other clients read a few case studies here.
Kate’s work
- Coaching: personal coaching, career coaching, business coaching and leadership coaching.
- Join Kate James at her home for a deep-dive half-day discovery session.
- The Confidence Course: Kate hosts this popular small-group coaching program for women several times each year.
- For over fifteen years, Kate has been hosting retreats for women in Byron Bay and Bali.
- Speaking: Kate’s corporate keynotes include The Confidence Course, The Mindful Leader and Live & Work Mindfully.
- Free meditations: Kate’s guided meditations have been listened to many millions of times on the world’s leading meditation app, Insight Timer.
- Ten-day course: Build Self-Belief through Mindful Action is available on Insight Timer.
- Writing: Kate is the author of six best-selling personal development books. Her latest title is Quietly Confident.
Kate’s books
In 2014 Kate fulfilled a lifelong dream of writing her first book, Believe in Yourself and Do What You Love. Since then, she has written several other titles including Be Mindful and Simplify Your Life, Change How You Think and Be Happier Now, Create Calm and Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life. Two of her books were listed in the top-ten best-selling personal development books in 2017. Believe in Yourself and Be Mindful have also been released in the US.
Her latest title, Quietly Confident was released in 2024.
Listen to Kate’s meditations online for free
Kate shares a mainstream form of meditation and mindfulness on the incredibly popular Insight Timer meditation app, home to over 26 million meditators around the world. Kate has had a daily meditation practice for over 30 years.
In her personal life
In 2017 Kate and her husband made a tree change to a small acreage on the Mornington Peninsula where they’re working to live more sustainably. When she’s not coaching, teaching or writing, Kate spends her time meditating, walking the local bush tracks, practising yoga, gardening, cooking, paddle boarding, reading and spending time with her adult daughters and grandchildren, Oscar, Milla and Clover.
Kate’s top personal values are inner harmony, kindness and generosity, connection, contribution, freedom, creativity and simplicity.
Giving back
As well as caring for the natural environment and supporting organisations that value diversity and inclusion, Kate contributes time and a percentage of income to a range of not-for-profits that focus on the wellbeing of women and children. Read more about current causes here.
In the press
Kate is often invited to speak in the press, on radio, on tv. You’ll find some examples of press here.
Kate’s credentials
Kate has gathered more than 8,000 hours of career, business, leadership and personal coaching experience and many hours of meditation teaching over the past 22 years. She was one of the first Australian coaches to achieve PCC accreditation with the International Coach Federation (ICF) in 2005 and one of the early teachers of ‘mainstream’ meditation in Melbourne.
Learn more about Kate’s work
Kate has been interviewed on a number of podcasts. Listen to her speak about her work here:
- Interview with the Resilience Institute on how mindfulness and self-compassion can help you to become more resilient.
- Interview with Luke McLean exploring Kate’s journey into coaching, teaching meditation and becoming a published author.
What people say about Kate James
Read what people say about Kate and her work here.
‘I absolutely adore Kate. She is a highly skilled, generous and enormously gifted business coach, especially for those who don’t traditionally consider themselves “business people”. I discovered her through sheer luck (thanks Google), and I remain sincerely grateful for the counsel she offered me back in 2010 when I was first fleshing out the bones for what would become Big Hearted Business. Thanks Kate!’
‘Like many small businesses, our growth was rapid and exciting. Working with Kate as our business coach enabled us to put much-needed systems and processes in place to effectively streamline and manage our business. Kate worked with us to clarify our business focus and the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. Sometimes I couldn’t see the forest for the trees, but Kate had a knack for giving things clarity and putting things into perspective in a succinct and professional way. Meeting with Kate was always an enjoyable experience and we hope to continue our relationship with her as we take the business to another level.’
Reading Be Mindful & Simplify Your Life was like a meditation. Written in Kate’s signature style, there is no judgement; no exhortations that you MUST do this or that. Rather, it is an invitation to make room for mindfulness in your life backed by generous tips for how to do just that. For anyone who is finding life a bit too overwhelming at the moment, this book will centre you, inspire you and equip you to make room in your life for less ‘doing’ and more ‘being’. Kelly Exeter, Editor of flyingsolo.com.au and author of Your Best Year Ever
Kate’s words in Be Mindful & Simplify Your Life so perfectly capture what every creative entrepreneur needs to hear, all packaged up in a beautiful keepsake to treasure. Her words are authentic, honest and advice the kind I keep referring back to again and again. An absolute must read. Jaclyn Carlson, Blog Society
Be Mindful & Simplify Your Life is a beautiful and very practical book. It will open your heart and your life in unexpected ways. Jono Fisher, Founder of the Wake Up Project and Mindful Leadership Forum
Still have questions?
If you still have questions about the way that Kate works, or about coaching in general, you might find the answers on our frequently asked questions page.
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