Katy Goshtasbi JD

Katy Goshtasbi helps leaders and teams grow with grace through change, emotional intelligence, and powerful personal and organizational branding.

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The National Conference of Bar Presidents was delighted to have Katy Goshtasbi deliver our keynote in San Francisco at our annual convention. It would be an understatement to say that she inspired us to be better and do better. The energy in the room was real, and people responded favorably to her direct challenges and spot-on discussion points. Katy knows our audience as well as any keynote speaker we’ve had over the years, in part due to her years of familiarity with our national organization’s reach, but also because she engaged in serious preparation, including sending out a pre-meeting questionnaire and also doing an engagement video prior to our meeting. We knew Katy would be in demand, so we scheduled her for an additional break-out session that was well attended, and she offered to do an online follow up session for conference attendees. We hope to see Katy again. We recommend her to any of our colleagues who are interested in real change in their organizations.

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Why book Katy Goshtasbi for your next event

Katy equips leaders and teams to navigate change with clarity and confidence, strengthening culture, engagement, and performance across the organization.
With deep expertise in emotional intelligence and branding, she helps people communicate authentically, reduce bias, and inspire action that drives revenue.
Her sessions combine insight, warmth, and energy, creating meaningful breakthroughs that audiences remember long after the event ends.

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Business Development, Change & Emotional-Intelligence Expert

Katy Goshtasbi is a sought-after speaker on business development, change, branding, and emotional intelligence, known for showing audiences how to grow with grace. Drawing from her own powerful journey and decades of professional experience, Katy helps leaders and teams embrace transition, elevate their brand, and inspire productivity and revenue, without losing the human connection that fuels long-term success. A breast-cancer survivor and former securities attorney, she brings credibility, heart, and perspective to every stage. Katy’s talks are engaging, practical, and uplifting, guiding audiences to uncover their unique story, strengthen emotional resonance, and step into what serves their highest good. The result is measurable growth in confidence, communication, and business outcomes, delivered in a way that is both impactful and unforgettable.

Who Is Katy Goshtasbi

Katy Goshtasbi is one of the most prominent voices on emotional intelligence, change, and branding for modern organizations. She works with leaders and teams who want to grow through transition rather than resist it and who understand that people, culture, and performance are deeply connected. Katy’s work helps organizations create intentional, holistic strategies that uplift both people and results.

Her perspective is shaped by a unique path. Katy arrived in the United States with two suitcases, planning to stay for two weeks, and ended up building an entirely new life. She put herself through law school, practiced securities law for 13 years, and later followed a calling to create impact in a more human and creative way. For more than 12 years, she has supported individuals and organizations around the world in elevating their personal and professional brands through insight, emotional intelligence, and a truly magnetic presence.

Growing Through Change With Grace

Change is inevitable, but growth is intentional. Katy helps organizations answer the questions that matter most: Are leaders and employees equipped to grow through change? Are they aligned around shared values? Are they empowered to reduce risk while sparking innovation?

Her keynotes and workshops show audiences how to reframe uncertainty, build resilience, and stay engaged during periods of transition. Katy emphasizes that growth does not require force, it requires clarity, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence. By strengthening these capabilities, teams become more adaptable, confident, and productive, even in fast-moving environments.

Emotional Intelligence as a Business Advantage

Katy reminds audiences that while IQ plateaus, EQ continues to rise and it drives nearly half of our success in life and work. Organizations with emotionally intelligent teams consistently perform better. They communicate more effectively, collaborate more deeply, and build trust faster.

As a certified EQi emotional-intelligence practitioner, Katy translates emotional intelligence into practical tools leaders can use immediately. She helps audiences understand how to recognize emotions, reduce bias, deepen engagement, and lead with empathy without sacrificing results. Her approach makes emotional intelligence tangible, actionable, and directly tied to business performance.

Branding, Resonance, and Authentic Communication

People buy connection first, content second. Katy teaches leaders how to resonate before they persuade. Through her work on branding and emotional resonance, she helps individuals and organizations uncover what makes them distinctive and meaningful.

Audiences learn how to communicate authentically, align their message with their values, and move others into action. Katy’s methodology strengthens confidence, presence, and credibility, whether on stage, in the boardroom, or with clients. The result is stronger relationships, clearer messaging, and increased impact across every level of the organization.

From Challenge to Purpose

As a breast-cancer survivor, Katy understands what it means to transform challenge into purpose. She brings this lived experience into her speaking with honesty and optimism, creating space for reflection, growth, and renewed motivation. Her story resonates deeply with audiences and reinforces a powerful truth: adversity can become a catalyst for clarity, courage, and meaningful change.

Katy’s sessions are known for being both substantive and energizing. She creates an atmosphere that is thoughtful, engaging, and genuinely fun, ensuring that audiences feel inspired, empowered, and ready to act.

Emotional Resonance Factor®: Her New Book

Katy is the author of Emotional Resonance Factor® (2025), a practical guide to owning your “good enough” and creating deeper connection, confidence, and impact.

In the book, she shares a clear, step-by-step approach to shifting limiting patterns, elevating emotional resilience, and aligning how you show up personally and professionally, so opportunities, relationships, and results flow with greater ease.

Book Katy Goshtasbi for Your Event

Katy Goshtasbi is the ideal speaker for organizations seeking growth that is sustainable, human, and results-driven. Her ability to blend emotional intelligence, branding, and business strategy makes her a compelling choice for leadership events, conferences, and team sessions.

She holds a JD from Indiana University, a BS in Finance with a minor in Economics, and is a member of the Indiana and DC Bars. Katy is the author of Emotional Resonance Factor® (2025) and Personal Branding in One Hour for Attorneys, a former Chair of the ABA Law Practice Division, and a trusted advisor to leaders worldwide.

Book Katy Goshtasbi for your event to help your audience grow with grace, connect with purpose, and perform at their highest level.

Customer Reviews

The National Conference of Bar Presidents

Katy has helped me completely restructure my business in a way that I could have never done alone. I started Bootcamp & 1:1 with Katy in the height of the pandemic. It seemed like a good time to focus on the business side of being a lawyer. I was at a crossroads & maybe a breaking point when we connected. I was exhausted, bewildered. My bandwidth was stretched so tight I thought I was going to snap. I was petrified because I wasn’t sure I could afford to commit to the level of service I needed, but I knew I had to face my business transition head on. Now or never. What if this is a waste? What if I spend this money during a pandemic & there’s no return? Thank God I did it. Katy has helped me completely restructure my business in a way that I could have never done alone. She saw things in me & didn’t know existed. She extracted my good & helped me minimize the rest. She kept me focused by being pragmatic, sincere, and truly vested in my mission. She was never pushy, but always encouraging and compelling. Now, a year & a half later, I have successfully transitioned my business to what I WANT it to be. I control my business, my clientele, my image. My business doesn’t control me anymore. My decisions are deliberate. But I’m not done w/ her yet. We’ve got more good work to do. Katy, thank you. I’ve hit many significant milestones w/your help. This isn’t just about my image, branding & business. This is about my long-term quality of life. I’m so grateful for you.

April Mclaughlin Attorney

Working with you over these past few months has been such a blessing. I am incredibly grateful for the insight and guidance you have provided as I search for my authenticity. With your help and encouragement, I have taken tremendous strides to discover my true self, learning to love myself unconditionally for the first time in my life, to respect, honor, and trust my intuition. As I seek to align myself with God’s purpose for me in the universe, I am practicing forgiving myself for the many mistakes I have made throughout the years and taking accountability for the choices I have made to be at cause in my life rather than effect. I am striving to surrender and release what no longer serves me to allow for self-healing as I continue to grow, expand, and evolve as a human being. I look forward to continuing this journey with you as my guide to find true peace, harmony, happiness, and love within myself. To uncover my God given talent and brilliance and become radiant and magnetic as I serve His purpose with ease and grace.

Veronica A.

Katy will take you on an introspective and enjoyable journey. No matter what stage of your professional life you may find yourself, I strongly recommend having Katy Goshtasbi help you develop and leverage your personal brand. Katy will take you on an introspective and enjoyable journey to explore how you can be more present and lead your professional self with your personal self. Her approach will not only show you how to develop a more intentional business development plan, but also provide some surprising insight on how to live your best life both in and out of the workplace.

Michael Tamburini

Katy has helped me get more clarity into my strengths and how best to utilize them. She has helped me define my personal brand and be aware of consistently showing up aligned with it. My success at this was reflected in a recent review that literally used adjectives to describe me that were my brand adjectives! I've also found her coaching about impactful communications invaluable. I have more confidence now than ever in having sometimes difficult conversations and have become more effective in marketing myself.

Divya Varshney Microsoft

You made me “rethink” my story... and how it perfectly applied to what I do now, both personally and professionally. I keep throwing out your name as the trigger for this “new” approach on my past, present and future. Always will be thankful for that.

Miguel Nunez

I was overwhelmed and not sure what my next step should be. Katy brought me back to the basics - what is it that makes me “me”, and how do I get that across to someone else. I am now much more confident in who I am, and am more willing to take a risk in my career, and in life, because I know my strengths and weaknesses better, and have trust in myself and my abilities. I wouldn’t be where I am without putting in the work that I did with Katy.

Jill Ragan, JD

What can I say- working with Katy isn’t work, it’s a personalized expedition into what makes you tick so that your business ticks for you. I really do feel that I’ve gained not only a new perspective on not only how I work and run my business but why I do it and most importantly what needs to change. Katy’s energy and grace are contagious- don’t miss the chance to catch some for yourself.

Roya Hough, JD

Katy has been my business coach and mentor for five years. She helped me completely transform my business into the business I wanted, rather than the business I had. Her business acumen is only surpassed by her innate and undeniable ability to resonate with women and meet them right where they are. Don't miss this opportunity. This may sound histrionic, but she has absolutely changed my life.

Client, Attorney

Thanks to Katy I have great insight into the one area I have struggled with... and that is how to "codify" outward my differentiated skill set as an attorney...and human being.

Dave Seitter, JD

The material is already within us and she brings it to the surface so we can communicate it clearly with others. It is a relatively fast process and I wish I started this work years ago. She believes in endless possibilities for my business and in life. She is the energy and light we all need in business.

Stephanie Barnier CFP

Katy shines as an executive coach and consultant. I TRUST KATY to excavate my unique traits -- she guides & encourages me to take specific, inspired action. As an intelligent listener, Katy provides a compassionate cradle for my creativity to blossom.

JA Hodgson

Our work together made a noticeable difference. Katy served as my executive coach for 7 years and also worked with my leadership team of faculty and staff as a coach, adviser and facilitator. Our work together made a noticeable difference positively impacting how I led as Chair and also to the inner workings of our department. Katy provided me with counsel on innovative strategy, creative ideas and insights to better our team and department.

L. Kroon

Keynotes

Keynote by Katy Goshtasbi:

GONE! Why your best leaders leave without warning – and the massive cost

Replacing a senior leader costs 3 to 4 times their annual salary. That’s what shows up on the balance sheet. A million dollars plus per leader you replace. What doesn’t show up is far more dangerous. Client trust
evaporates. Institutional knowledge disappears. Strategic initiatives stall. And when one respected leader
leaves, others begin quietly reassessing their own future.

Katy Goshtasbi knows this from the inside. After a decade as a securities attorney – including roles at the SEC and top firms in Washington, DC – she had what most would call a successful career. Credentials.
Compensation. Status. And then she left. No warning. No dramatic exit. No counteroffer conversation. She was simply done.

Over the last 18 years, working with CEOs, executives, and leadership teams across industries, Katy has learned that her story is not the exception – it’s the pattern. Senior leaders rarely announce they’re thinking of leaving.

They disengage quietly. They keep performing. They stop imagining a future. By the time organizations notice, the decision has already been made.

In this keynote, Katy reveals:

The subtle emotional signals that indicate a leader has already checked out – even while results look strong.
Why performance metrics, engagement data, and “stay conversations” consistently miss the truth.
How organizations unintentionally reward endurance while ignoring erosion.
The hidden ways senior leaders begin to feel invisible, undervalued, or aged out.
What leaders can do to see the warning signs early – and respond before the exit becomes inevitable

This is not a talk about retention programs, perks, or HR policy. It’s about a hard truth most organizations avoid: your best people don’t leave because of money – they leave because the relationship is already broken.

Audiences leave with a sharper ability to read what’s really happening inside their teams, a new framework for identifying disengagement before it’s irreversible, and a clearer understanding of what it actually takes to keep senior talent choosing to stay.

Ideal for: Executive leadership teams, board retreats, professional services firms, organizations facing
succession risk, industries where the loss of senior talent carries disproportionate consequences.

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Keynote by Katy Goshtasbi:

Change Happens: Use Emotional Resonance Factor® to easily capitalize on change.

Emotional intelligence accounts for nearly 45% of individual success and is a defining factor in organizational performance. Companies with emotionally intelligent leaders and teams consistently outperform competitors, strengthen culture, and elevate their position in the marketplace.

Yet change and transition are constant and often challenging. The ability to understand and manage emotions is essential for navigating these shifts with clarity, focus, and resilience.

This session addresses a critical strategic question: How effectively do you and your organization emotionally resonate with the audiences you serve? Because emotional resonance drives influence, engagement, and trust and the emotion that most often leads to action is a sense of positive alignment and well-being.

In this interactive, high-value workshop, participants will learn:

The definition and business impact of the Emotional Resonance Factor® (ERF)
How to identify their own ERF and leverage it to build a brand that is both effective and aligned with organizational goals
How emotions shape communication, client engagement, and brand perception and how to use this insight to attract stakeholders with clarity and confidence.

Attendees will leave equipped with practical tools to strengthen their emotional intelligence, elevate their professional presence, and enhance their ability to drive organizational results. This program is available as a keynote, training, or concurrent session.

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Keynote by Katy Goshtasbi:

Solving Problems at the Human Level: Human Decision-Making

Today’s workforce is more fragmented and uncertain than ever. Employees at every level are questioning their decision-making abilities, and leaders are being called to recognize a fundamental truth: every business decision impacts human beings and every human being is guided by emotion.

Yet many managers and executives have never been trained to understand or use emotional intelligence to make sound, strategic decisions that drive growth.

This session equips managers, board members, and executive teams with a practical framework for integrating emotional intelligence into daily decision-making. Participants will learn how emotions influence judgment, performance, and culture and how harnessing them effectively leads to stronger alignment, improved outcomes, and more confident leadership.

This program is available as a keynote, training, or concurrent session.

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Keynote by Katy Goshtasbi:

New Ways to Lead: Be a Coach, Not a Boss

Modern leadership requires more than direction, it demands emotional intelligence, the ability to coach, and the skill to inspire others. Today’s most effective creative thought-leaders cultivate strong personal brands grounded in self-awareness, empathy, and clear communication.

In this session, participants learn how to elevate their leadership by developing a personal brand that reflects emotional intelligence and thought-leadership. They will explore practical techniques to shift from traditional management to a coaching mindset, strengthening team performance, engagement, and innovation.

This program can be customized for female leadership audiences. This program is available as a keynote, training, or concurrent session.

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