Effective Communication Facilitator and Coach

Navigating Difficult Conversations with
Confidence and Ease

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The Challenge

Navigating Difficult Conversations Doesn’t Have to Derail Your Team/Organization

Today’s workplace is more diverse, fast-moving, and values-driven than ever before. That’s a good thing. However, for leaders, teams, and employees, it can also mean high-stakes conversations, staff meetings, and side conversations are becoming more emotionally charged and difficult to navigate than before.

Many individuals in the workplace feel unprepared. Fearing to say the wrong thing or lacking clarity how to navigate heated conversations, many opt out and choose to avoid, evade, or stay far away from such interactions – leading to eroded trust and morale.

With the right tools and mindset, individuals at all levels of the organization can gain confidence to opt it – transforming these moments into opportunities for clarity, connection, and growth.

With a PhD in Education & Sociology and vast experience supporting individuals at all levels of an organization navigate tough conversations, Dr. Kate brings her passion in helping individuals feel empowered with strategies that are immediately applicable.

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My Solution

I help leaders, team members, and employees move forward with confidence to engage in the conversations that matter where trust can deepen, inclusion grows, and culture transforms – one conversation at a time.

What makes my work different:
✔️ Grounded in research and real-world experience
✔️ Centered on building confidence, clarity, and compassion
✔️ Focused on practical skills—not just theory

Through my Navigating Difficult Conversations programs and consulting, I give leaders and teams the tools to communicate across difference, engage in tough topics with empathy and clarity, and respond—not react—when challenges arise.

Dr. Kate's impactful TEDx Talk titled “Quiet Power – The Key to Speaking Up," with over 28,000 views, inspires people to find their voice, navigate difficult interactions, and feel more empowered to: "change the way you communicate and you can change your world."

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Next Steps

Ready to create a culture where every voice is heard—and every conversation moves you forward?

Speaking Engagements

Dynamic keynotes and facilitated sessions that spark awareness and equip audiences with tools they can use immediately to build confidence in high-stakes conversations.

Interactive Workshops

Hands-on training tailored to your team’s needs for effective communication with clarity and compassion — designed to create lasting behavior change.

Consulting for Culture Change

Strategic guidance to integrate inclusive communication practices across your organization and align behaviors with company values.

Navigating Difficult Conversations In Action!

Ann Engles sought out Dr. Kate Webster to speak at their company's annual continuing education conference titled "Sharing Solutions." They were in need of a strong and dynamic key note speaker that could command a large audience and set the tone for their conference sessions. Dr. Kate worked closely with Ann to customize a keynote that would not only provide important tips and tools but model how to move beyond barriers that hold you back and speak up for yourself.

ANNUAL CONTINUING EDUCATION CONFERENCE - SHARING SOLUTIONS!
You redefined key note speaker for us. Your presence in front of a large audience was a model of effective communication. Just when I thought I’d heard and seen it all – you came along and reached our hearts and minds with what might be possible. Thank you for a wonderful presentation.

Ann Engles, VP Cynthia Chow & Associates

Dr. Laura Deon reached out to Dr. Kate to create a multi session program to assist the doctors in her department level set on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in a health care setting with the goal of providing patient care that was receptive and response to a diverse patient population. Dr. Kate researched health equity outcomes and social determinants of health to provide a customized program and help these medical doctors move the needle in patient care.

Wonderful instruction on implicit bias and cultural sensitivity. Very well versed in the history of our nation and how our structures and systems continue to impact our culture today. The diversity and inclusion training that she provided to our PM&R department was very educational and well received by our faculty. I highly recommend her for any diversity and inclusion needs that your organization may have.

Dr. Laura Deon, Pediatric Rehabilitation Attending and Health Equity Champion, Rush University Medical Center

Re-Examining her TEDx Speech with a Bold, Brave, and Badass lens, Dr. Kate highlights a need to address difference... (revise here)
eloquently calls out a need for a more inclusive approach for individuals from all backgrounds to speak up for themselves in her LinkedIn Article:
"Why My TEDx Talk Needs An Intersectional Lens:
"Quiet Power" 8 Years Later"

When I recently revisited my TEDx Speech on YouTube, I was amazed and awed that it had received over 28,000 views! I had no idea that my message of accessing your “Quiet Power” to change the way you communicate and speak up for yourself would resonate with so many people.

Then I watched the talk for the first time in several years, and my heart sank. Not because of any judgmental thoughts of how I looked, sounded, or appeared on the stage, but because of two core universals I claimed back then about using assertive communication skills to speak up for yourself. Although using your voice to speak up for yourself can be a universal skill, I naively failed to consider that women who don’t look like me – a white, cisgender, able-bodied female – may not have the same privilege to use them.”

I believe in the power of my own vulnerability, authenticity and growth. Sometimes I make a miss and I am willing to revisit the past and grow from it.