CUTV News Radio spotlights Kathleen Johnston

Edmonton, AB – Kathleen Johnston is a psychotherapist, executive coach, career strategist and catalyst for change. Using her new model of career development:  Essence Guided Career Fulfillment, Kathleen supports, motivates and inspires women to live to their full potential.

“I have a bone-deep need for the world to be gender-neutral and am committed to using my career development work to help move us in that direction,” says Kathleen. “Being gender neutral would allow us to truly focus on what matters most — the ESSENCE of the individual. My goal, when starting my private practice, was to encourage women to find the work that gave them meaning while resisting the urge to become Superwoman.”

“I needed to understand the "Superwoman" I had become and determine how to find a different path,” recalls Kathleen.

To enhance that understanding, Kathleen’s research explored the lived experience of professional women seeking personal achievement through management or leadership roles. She interviewed women at the pinnacle of their careers, each one representing an occupational sector. Several years later, she published their stories in a journal workbook entitled Ordinary Women—Extraordinary Lives: A Woman's Career Legacy.

Today, Kathleen offers private counselling and coaching to support women in their career journeys.

“If you look at our work culture, for the most part it’s still competitive, inflexible, directive, driven, role-based, shame-inducing, power-based, gender-scripted, and conforming,” says Kathleen.  “We need to have a better balance between being ego driven vs functioning from essence.”

For more information on Kathleen Johnston, visit www.kathleenjohnston.com