Supporting Women Founders & Entrepreneurs
Because building a business shouldn’t mean burning out or doing it alone.
Why Founders Need More Than Advice
Being a founder is more than a job, it’s a relentless balancing act. From fundraising and scaling to leading teams and managing life, the pressure is real.
SheLeads provides coaching, strategy, and hands-on support so women founders can grow with clarity, confidence, and energy
“Founders don’t just need advice. They need someone who can operationalise their vision.”
Our Founder Services
This program accelerates your personal and professional growth with practical, structured support. Together we’ll co-create a roadmap based on your goals, challenges, and life context.
Designed for women navigating change you could either be—stepping into management, returning to work, or progressing into leadership - we will work to define what is the area where you need the more support and suit the program to your needs.
You’ll leave feeling grounded, prepared, and empowered to lead this phase in your life.
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Your personal leadership partner.
Ongoing 1:1 coaching & mentoring
On-demand support via text/voice
Tools for self-doubt, boundary-setting, and leadership mindset
A trusted sounding board who helps you breathe, reset, and keep moving
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Your right-hand operator during scale.
Vision-to-execution leadership
Systems, processes, and operational design
Team building & role clarity
Go-to-market & commercialisation strategy
Change management & culture building
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For business owners and entrepreneurs who need clarity & growth pathways.
Strategic planning & commercial validation
Customer journey & product design
Revenue model refinement
Leadership & culture alignmen
“Working with Katherine was a game-changer. In just one session, I went from stuck in the weeds to having a clear, practical plan and the confidence to follow through.”
Why SheLeads for Founders?
20+ years scaling startups, social enterprises & high-growth businesses
COO/CEO background with global expansion experience
Deep expertise in both strategy and execution
Known for bringing calm to chaos, clarity to complexity, and trust to the founder journey
“Unlike most fractional execs, Katherine brings hands on COO expertise helping operationalise strategy with coaching. She doesn’t just “fix” things, she builds lasting capacity in the founder and team.”
Book a free 30 minute Power Session
Bring your latest challenge, I’ll bring the calm (and a game plan). Experience me in action.
Let’s build the engine behind your vision.
Meet Katherine
I’m Katherine Gokavi-Whaley, a business coach, operator and advisor with deep, hands-on experience building and scaling businesses from the ground up.
Over the past 25+ years, I’ve founded multiple businesses, worked as a Chief Operating Officer across a range of start-ups and growth-stage companies, and partnered closely with founders to turn ideas into commercially viable, well-run businesses. My background spans strategy, operations, finance, people and execution, not just what to do, but how to actually make it work.
As a COO, I specialise in helping businesses move from vision to action. That means translating strategy into clear priorities, building practical operating rhythms, putting the right systems and structures in place, and creating a foundation that supports sustainable growth, without burning out the founder or the team.
Through SheLeads Coaching, I now work with solopreneurs, small business owners and leadership teams who want clarity, momentum and confidence as they build or scale their business. Many of my clients are juggling growth with life, leadership and competing demands and need support that is both strategic and grounded in reality.
My approach is practical, commercial and deeply human. I bring the perspective of someone who has sat on the inside, accountable for results, cashflow, teams and delivery alongside a coaching lens that helps people lead with clarity, balance and intention.