Kate McLeod

As a kid, Kate's dad would tell her "Don't wiggle. Don't change the plan." Her instinctive response of "Yeah, but I thought of a better idea!" wasn't just middle-child mentality. It was an early impulse of what she would craft into her greatest professional asset: the ability to identify the next actionable step in "what if?", and build the fluency to evolve it.

Creative consulting and collaboration with Kate never looks the same. It's project-dependent, instinct-led, and always in service of the work and the creative making it. The spectrum can look like coaching a 2x international TEDx environmental scientist on presence and performance for high-stakes lectures, co-building operational infrastructure for a nationally recognized entertainment industry organization from the ground up, co-building a media company amidst an industry redefining itself, serving as a producing partner with an independent narrative film production company in active development, or diving into script development and creatively scaling the production of a new work.

Kate’s methodology, the Creative Conscious™, grew from over a decade of working in the entertainment industry with a specific focus on acting, a practice of empathy that translates into a universal framework for optimized creative thinking.

Acting taught her how to play and listen to the most present circumstances. Producing taught her how to hold the strategy of business and the duty to the creative collaborative vision simultaneously. Consulting revealed what happens when both are in service of creative potential.

Kate's consulting practice is intentionally selective. If you're building something that doesn't fit neatly into a box you’ve seen before, that's usually a sign you're in the right place.