Motivational Speakers

Kate Larsen has been a professional speaker and trainer for more than thirteen years, working with organizations to help leaders and teams exceed performance expectations while loving their work. Kate teaches about being successful in life without forfeiting your relationships and health. A key part of her solution involves providing coaching along with training programs. Keynote addresses can provide the door to ongoing changes for individuals in her audiences. Kate has been coaching individuals for more than ten years. She has achieved the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation with the International Coach Federation and currently coaches both individuals and teams in the corporate environment, inspiring them to work, create and perform at their highest potential.

Her clients include the professional corporate community such as 3M, Amoco, and Lucent Technologies, as well as extensive work with medical facilities, higher education, and a variety of associations and industries. Kate is also an active member of the National Speakers Association, and a highly sought after motivational speaker, addressing and training groups across the nation.

Perhaps Kate's most unique qualification, however, for the ideal "all-around" speaker and coach is the fact that she also is a nationally recognized fitness expert, she has taught wellness and fitness for 18 years. She is a certified group fitness instructor, certified personal trainer, and an internationally published author on health and fitness. She has served as a fitness expert for America Online, lifestyle coach for the nationally syndicated TV program "Everyday Living," and has either written or been interviewed for articles in Fitness Magazine, Self, Weight Watchers, and Prevention Magazine. Kate is also an experienced addictions counselor.

Balancing Life and Work is an area of expertise for Kate, having spent over a dozen years developing and presenting these programs for companies and people who find themselves juggling more responsibility and higher levels of stress. She is passionate about working with the "whole" person (body, mind, and spirit.) Her academic background, corporate coaching experience and fitness expertise allow her to guide, motivate and inspire her clients to live and work in harmony with their values, reach their potential, and enjoy balanced relationships and health. Whether coaching individual executives, managers, lawyers, financial planners, Human Resource directors, or an entire corporate team, Kate is able to bring the three-in-one balance to the coaching experience, maximizing results on every level. Kate is a successful business entrepreneur as well. Through her company "Winning LifeStyles, Inc.," she has written and published a variety of training materials, including the LifeWalk training program and the THINK, CHOOSE, WIN SERIES.

Kate and her husband have three sons, and make their home in Minnesota"