Kathy Caprino

Kathy Caprino, M.A., is an internationally- recognized women’s career and leadership coach, executive trainer, speaker, Senior Forbes Contributor, podcaster and author, dedicated to the advancement of women in business.

A top media source and voice on women’s careers, entrepreneurial and business success, leadership and personal growth for Forbes, Thrive Global, LeadersHum, and LinkedIn, she is also the author of two top-rated books - Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power, and Purpose and The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss (now being published in Arabic, Chinese and Polish).

A champion for working women, Caprino is a former corporate Vice President, a trained psychotherapist, specialized career and executive coach, and sought-after writer and speaker on women’s issues. She is the Founder and President of Kathy Caprino, LLC (formerly Ellia Communications, Inc.) and her top-rated career growth courses and programs include The Amazing Career Project, The Amazing Career Coach Certification, The Most Powerful You (sponsored by a division of the United Nations and many more organizations). Her Career Breakthrough coaching, speaking and other programs help women of all levels and fields build successful, rewarding careers of impact, meaning and significance.

Drawing on her national research, therapeutic and coaching training, and her business experience, Caprino provides one-on-one career consulting, group training, online courses, workshops, leadership seminars and training resources aimed to support women to reach their highest professional visions. Her latest book, The Most Powerful You, explores the 7 most damaging power gaps professional women face and offers riveting real-life stories of women who’ve faced and overcome these gaps, along with proven advice, strategies and exercises from over 30 of the nation’s top experts in topics essential to women’s success.

Caprino is a frequent invited speaker and workshop presenter in the areas of women’s empowerment, overcoming adversity and challenge in the workplace, effective communication, networking and LinkedIn success, navigating successfully through change, and identifying your passion and fueling your work with it. She has spoken at over 200 women’s and leadership conferences, Fortune 100 training events, teen leadership forums, and national business and training events.

In her top-ranked podcast Finding Brave, Caprino interviews the nation’s top movers and shakers, influencers, bestselling authors, leadership and entrepreneurial experts, creatives, and more, all who are demonstrating their own version of “finding brave” and helping us make the impact we dream to in the world. As a top media source on women’s career and entrepreneurial issues and trends, she has appeared in over 200 leading newspapers, publications and podcasts both nationally and worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, SELF, Glamour, MORE, and on national radio and television.

Prior to owning her own career consulting firm, Caprino achieved a high-level 18-year corporate career in the publishing, direct marketing, membership services industries, serving in Director and VP roles in marketing, product development, research, and product management. Caprino received her M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fairfield University, her B.A. in English Literature from Boston University, and earned other educational certifications and training from New York University, University of London, and the Institute for Life Coaching Training. Her career coaching and consulting firm is based in Stamford, CT.