Hi, I’m Kat 👋
Here’s the enduring question that plays like ambient café music in my head:
How can I help creatives thrive professionally, financially, and vocationally?
(if you thought, “emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, too!”, let’s be friends)
My writing here features personal essays + qualitative data I’ve collected while coaching creatives since 2015.
I write about:
creativity & doing creative work
the intersections of art/design x technology x economics and what it might mean for you
how to be a real, live human in the Digital Age and Age of AI (i.e. have a style and strategy)
What does Quiet Confetti mean?
Imagine: You just challenged your inner critic and subsequently brought more flow, alignment, and meaning to your career or life. A colorful whisper whoosh of confetti pops above, raining down on you.
Quiet: refers to being a creative or knowledge worker in the Digital Age, how much time we spend online, scrolling, typing, thinking, video and photo editing, et al.
Confetti: refers to the importance of celebrating and having fun to keep your brain calm, curious and creative
As Joan Didion said so well, “I write to know what I think.” Quiet Confetti is where I try to make sense of our wild collective moment, in a way that’s helpful to you. A very partial list of topics you might see:
creativity for non-beginners
Digital Age connection (and disconnection)
making time for creative projects
the handmade or crafted
the attention economy
your personal brand
neurodivergence
mental fitness & creative careers
Hope you feel like “quiet confetti” in this space. You can subscribe right here👇🏼
About
As a creative career coach, I help people make their next contribution to our fast-changing world.
My approach is right/left brain-balanced and informed by my studies in
art history/visual culture
neuroscience of creativity
somatic meditation
conscious entrepreneurship
the future of creative work
Bit of bio
Kat Koh holds art history degrees from the University of California, San Diego and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. From 2009 - 2014 she was part of curatorial teams at Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, San Jose Museum of Art, and the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Her coaching clients have created for Apple, the BBC, Google, MIT Media Lab, New York Times, Tribeca Film Festival, Oxfam, Rolling Stone, SFMOMA, and Spotify.
She has been interviewed for The Cut by New York Magazine, Marketplace, Creative Review UK, and Apartment Therapy.
Kat is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation and lives in San Francisco.
Bit of lived experience
I grew up first generation Korean-American with immigrant parents who owned a small house painting business in Silicon Valley.
Before coaching, I studied a different kind of painting for over a decade: Western art history. Both currents of East/West and digital/analog run strongly through me. Sometimes they collide in spectacular fashion.
I live in San Francisco, love salt and the pickles it makes possible, wish sad song karaoke were more of a thing, and compulsively talk to fauna (sometimes flora, too).
However it happens, I hope I get to meet you. Thanks for reading!
