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Katherine M. Sauer, Ph.D. is a consultant, writer, speaker, and enthusiastic advocate for work-life well-being. She is a two-time founder and has held leadership roles within a national nonprofit, an investment advisory firm, and in higher education administration. Her quick, calming, workday-focused guided meditation tracks are available on the free Insight Timer platform. As an artist, Katherine creates works featuring bold geometrics and themes from the economics discipline, primarily in acrylics and mixed media such as paper, fabric, and glass. Her book MOTIVATED AF: Align Your Inner Drive for Performance and Fulfillment without Burning Out is forthcoming in 2026.
To cope with the demands of professional life, Katherine began exploring various work-life wellness disciplines in 2008. She discovered yoga and meditation were powerful stress management tools, adopted good sleep hygiene to cure three decades of insomnia, cleaned up her diet, and learned to take good care of herself during work travel while still performing at a high level. In parallel, she curated frameworks and honed competencies related to personal productivity and email, leadership and management, challenging communications, change leadership, strategy, and coaching.
Bismarck, North Dakota is Katherine’s hometown but you'll have to listen closely to hear any trace of that accent. Colorado is where she’s called home for the past two decades. She enjoys creative pursuits like painting and dancing and loves to travel. She is an avid meditator and loves the metaphysical side of life. Katherine is an herbivore and enjoys plant-based gourmet cooking. Puns are her preferred style of humor. Her last name is pronounced "sour” like a lemon.
Hello all! I'm new to this platform and I'm excited to see what everyone is up to.
My current passion project is working on a book called MOTIVATED AF: Align Your Inner Drive for Performance & Fulfillment without Burning Out. I figure that there might be more than a few mission-driven achievers here at Inspired, so I’d like to share my free Substack. New posts drop every Sunday. Here is the most recent one. motivatedaf.substack.com/p/myth-youre...
I'm here on this platform because I'm interested in how we can collectively build a better path forward for humanity and the planet. If I had a magic wand, I’d take $500 million to start an independent endowment (probably structured as a private operating foundation) with the aim of catalyzing, fostering, and amplifying endeavors that promote systemic change that unleashes human capital.
By original training I’m an economist, but over the decades I’ve added credentials in yoga & meditation, change leadership, executive coaching, nutrition, and intuitive energy reading.
