Coaching with Kai
Executive Coaching
Leading through constant change requires building your capacity to adapt, innovate, and sustain your effectiveness over time.
My executive coaching helps leaders navigate the challenges you're facing right now: leading teams through transition, managing competing priorities, having difficult conversations, building psychological safety, and developing your executive presence. Whether you're stepping into a new role, scaling your impact, or feeling stretched thin by the demands of leadership, we create practical strategies tailored to your specific context.
Drawing on nearly 20 years of mindfulness practice and my background in organizational psychology, I help you develop the self-awareness and resilience needed to thrive amid uncertainty.
The result: greater clarity, confidence, and capacity to turn complexity into your leadership advantage.
Team Coaching
The differences that create the most tension on your team often hold your greatest potential for innovation and breakthrough results.
My team coaching helps groups transform conflict from something to avoid into a source of strength. When diverse perspectives clash, it's usually a sign that something important is at stake. I work with teams to navigate these tensions productively, building the skills to engage across differences rather than around them.
Drawing on evidence-based frameworks and years of facilitating difficult conversations, I help teams develop the psychological safety and communication patterns needed to leverage their diversity. Whether you're experiencing misalignment, struggling with decision-making, or feeling stuck in unproductive patterns, we create practical strategies that honor each person's contributions while building collective capacity.
The goal is to harness the creative friction that comes from different experiences, working styles, and perspectives. When effectively managed, these differences combine to create outcomes no individual could achieve alone.
The result: a team that doesn't just tolerate differences but actively uses them to generate stronger solutions and deeper innovation.
ADHD Coaching
You have the capacity to lead powerfully. You just need an approach designed for how your brain actually works.
My ADHD coaching helps you identify how your unique cognitive wiring shows up in your leadership and design strategies that leverage your natural strengths of quick pattern recognition, creative problem-solving, and ability to hyperfocus on compelling challenges. Whether you're navigating a fast-paced environment that energizes you or managing the administrative demands that deplete you, we build approaches that honor how you work best.
We focus on understanding your leadership signature: what makes you effective, what contexts bring out your best work, and how to structure your role and relationships to maximize both. We also address the challenges that come with leading as a neurodivergent person in neurotypical systems.
The result: leadership that feels energizing rather than depleting, and the clarity to make the impact you're capable of.
What People Are Saying
“I had the privilege of being mentored by Kai through the ASU + Georgetown Innovation Academy. Kai has a remarkable ability to help leaders sharpen their focus and approach challenges with clarity. Kai’s guidance reinforced the importance of leaning into one’s strengths and recognizing differences as valuable assets.
His approach is practical, insightful, and deeply impactful. Kai introduced frameworks such as centering and navigating polarities that continue to influence how I approach leadership and decision-making. He has a talent for bringing out the best in others and equipping them with tools that have lasting value.
I highly recommend Kai to anyone seeking a mentor or partner who can elevate both personal growth and professional effectiveness.”
— Senior Associate Dean“Kai is an effective teacher and consultant, especially when it comes to the cultural elements of organizational change. During our time together, I was very impressed by Kai's ability to name subtle and complicated emotions, which is so necessary in identifying "what's really going on" in a dynamic environment. In our coaching sessions, we were encouraged (and sometimes challenged!) to be reflective about our own values and feelings and how they might impact our choices for navigating organizational change. An ever-present invitation to mindfulness, thoughtfulness, and presentness surrounds Kai's work, and I'm grateful for the time we were able to spend together.
— Director“For the first time in my career, I’m at a company with more than 3 product marketers, and we all bring years of experience to our group. The company has 2000 employees, which is way more than the 200-employee start-up that is my norm. Kai has been coaching me on conflict resolution, organizational culture and psychology. It turns out, frustration + ADHD impulsiveness & boundary blindness + East Coast bluntness can create energized statements that are easily misunderstood. Whoops.”
— Product Marketer“Kai Stowers’s exceptional skills significantly influenced my personal and professional growth. Kai introduced me to mindfulness techniques that helped me stay grounded and focused, even in high-pressure situations. With Kai's help, I gained the confidence to address sensitive issues with empathy and clarity, leading to constructive outcomes. Additionally, Kai’s insights on "managing up" were invaluable, helping me build productive relationships with senior leaders in my organization. In summary, Kai’s professionalism and dedication to my leadership development was unparalleled.”
— Associate Dean