Katie Darden

Katie Darden is Owner and Director of the Career Life Institute. She has over 20 years experience in Training and Development, including 15 years in Human Resources, and over 12years in management. She created systems, implemented new departments, hired and trained staff, and then managed the functions of Administration, Recruitment and Hiring, Personnel, Customer Training and Employee Training for organizations such as the State of California, the City of Arcata, Silton-Bookman Systems (an international software company) and the largest Indian tribe in California (the Yurok Indian Tribe).

Katie's experience and associations also include:

  • three years as an Elite Success Coach with The Coaching Staff
  • graduate of Anthony Robbins Mastery University, an extensive two-year program focusing on life mastery and successfully managing change.
  • certified Handwriting Expert (Grapho-Analytics).
  • certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
  • registered and certified Hypnotherapist
  • certified Career/Life Planner®
  • participant in Women Work, a five-part video production by Humboldt State University and California Commission on Status of Women
  • member of the American Society of Training and Development
  • member of the Association of Women in Computing
  • member of the International Coaching Federation
  • 2002 graduate of Coach U
  • founding member of Coachville
  • founding member of the Graduate School of Coaching
  • member of the Board of Directors for the Women Entrepreneurs Institute
  • co-director of Business Connections, a business women's networking group and National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) affiliate network
  • creator, director, and facilitator of the Women Entrepreneurs Roundtable, a twice-monthly tele-forum for women with an entrepreneurial spirit (the first  virtual NAFE affiliate network created in 2000)
  • co-founder and director of the Career Life Institute since 1997
  • Owner of BizSuccessGroup.

Katie has extensive experience as a graphic artist as well as developing written and instructional materials, including editing and publication of newsletters for insurance agencies, the California State Controller’s Office, networking groups, a quilt guild, the Yurok Indian Tribe, and the City of Arcata. She also uses a graphic vision mapping process for creating group consensus and vision, and provides classes on how to create a graphic journal.

She loves working with creative people and her purpose in life is to create the opportunities for people to discover their innate brilliance. An award-winning webmaster and artist in her "spare" time, Katie considers herself fortunate to live with her husband and two cats in their wonderful ocean-view home on California's North Coast.

Katie Darden can be contacted at bizlifecoach @ gmail.com