The Work Happy Project started with a simple belief: that work should feel good. Katherine founded it on the conviction that happiness at work isn't a nice-to-have but it's a performance strategy. That when leaders genuinely care about the experience their people have, everything else follows.
When Katherine and Lindsay met it was clear they had the same values and beliefs on workplace happiness, the same passion for what becomes possible when people feel good about where they work.
We're not here to pretend it's all sunshine. But we do believe a little more joy is always possible. It’s in the culture a leader sets and in the small shifts that helps make people feel good. That's what we're here to nudge people towards. Not perfection. Just better. And, wherever possible, a bit more fun along the way.
Meet Katherine
Katherine is a positive psychology and leadership geek, and proud of it. She's spent years studying neuroscience and evidence-based approaches to behavioural change, and has a way of making complex science feel immediately practical and relevant to the real world of leadership.
Her corporate career gave her something that most coaches don't have: she's actually done the job. As Managing Director of a large national recruitment business, she built and led teams of up to 220 people, delivered results to VC investors, and grew the business to £21M NFI with 40% contribution year on year. She lived the pressure, the relentless pace, and the constant balancing act between results and people and she remained firmly in the "people first" camp throughout.
That experience, combined with her qualifications CIPD L7 in Career Development and Talent Management, coaching accreditation with The Neuroleadership Institute, and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London means her work with leaders is grounded in both real-life credibility and rigorous science.
Katherine believes that happy, engaged people who believe in a common purpose deliver extraordinary results. Her mission is to help leaders lead lighter, think more clearly, and build teams where people genuinely thrive.
Meet Lindsay
Lindsay has spent her career inside large, complex IT programmes. She continues to work in corporate technology alongside her coaching, which means when her clients talk about the pressure, the pace, and the politics, she genuinely understands. Not because she remembers it but because she's living it too.
But what led Lindsay to coaching was something more personal than her CV. A growing belief that work is just one part of who we are and that when we lose sight of that, everything suffers. Her coaching is built around the whole person, not just the work. Because in her experience, when someone reconnects with what really matters to them, the professional stuff tends to fall into place too. In practice that means honest conversations, a lot of good questions, and a path forward that's built around you.
We can help.
The Leadership Challenge
The senior team are working hard but not always together. Decisions are slow, priorities blur and when the SLT isn't aligned, the whole business feels it.
The Manager Challenge
Your managers were promoted because they were brilliant at what they did. Leading people is a different skill to the one that got them promoted. And that gap costs you more than you think.
The Growth Challenge
You can feel something in the team dynamic isn't quite right. People are busy but not energised. Productive but not happy. And you're not sure where to start.
