As a speaker, MC, facilitator and coach, Dr Kate Cashman helps people find their courage, voice, and unique strengths – in leadership and life.
As a speaker, MC, facilitator and coach, Dr Kate Cashman helps people find their courage, voice, and unique strengths – in leadership and life.
Dr. Kate’s Story
With a background spanning legal academia, policing, and business ownership, Kate brings a rare mix of grounded practicality, sharp insight, and real-world experience to everything she does. She holds a PhD in law and forensic criminology, trained as a life and leadership coach in 2016, is a TEDx speaker and coach, and runs her leadership development and coaching business, Human, Actually. She's also owned multiple businesses — including Udara Movement Studio, one of Hobart's leading yoga and Pilates studios.
People describe Kate as positive, authentic, and disarmingly honest. Whether she's speaking to a room of leaders, opening your conference, or hosting your event, she creates spaces where people want to step forward and lean in — because it genuinely feels like she's talking directly to you.
Having worked across law, academia, policing, movement, and business, Kate has a deep understanding of how people communicate, lead, and make decisions under pressure — and what it actually takes to build courage, boundaries, and self-trust when things feel uncertain. Her perspective is holistic because her life and work has been designed that way.
She's also a mum of two, has far too many pets, and lives by the beach in Tasmania. She knows what it means to try to balance life, leadership, and legacy while staying sane — and, more importantly, well. It's not easy. But it is intentional.
She connects
where it counts
the most.
She'll also tell you that her late diagnosed ADHD is one of her greatest strengths — and she's right. It means she can read a room in seconds, is deeply intuitive, and has a genuine gift for meeting people exactly where they are.
Kate has a way of saying what you most need to hear; she's not afraid to call you out, kindly, when you're playing small, and she has a way of lending you her courage, optimism, and energy when you've lost sight of your own.
She connects where it counts the most.
What drives the work
My vision is a world where leaders, change-makers, and everyday humans stop waiting to feel confident enough to speak up, show up, and step into their potential — and instead discover what becomes possible when they choose courage first. When they share their unique voice and strengths with their teams, their communities, and the world, the ripple effect is extraordinary. Not in a grand, abstract way. In a deeply human one.
“I believe in a world where every person knows that their voice matters — and has the courage to use it. Not someday, when they feel ready. Not when the imposter syndrome quiets down or confidence finally arrives. Now. As they are. With everything they already know and everything they are still learning.”
Courage
Everything begins here. Courage is not the absence of fear — it's the decision to move anyway. I believe courage is accessible to every person, in every personality type, at every stage of their career and life. My work is about helping people find it in themselves, before confidence catches up.
Humanity
I show up as a whole human — imperfect, vulnerable, and still learning — and I invite others to do the same. In an era of increasing automation, what makes us irreplaceable is precisely our humanity. I will always champion that.
Connection
I am not here to perform. I am here to connect — genuinely, honestly, and with my whole self — and to create that same quality of connection between my audiences and what they're learning. Real change happens in relationship with who we are, not in isolation.
Inspiration
I measure success by one thing: did this person walk away believing they are more capable, more worthy, and more powerful than they did ten minutes ago? If yes, my work is done.
The world needs what you have to say.
If you're ready to help your people find their voice, step into their strengths, and lead with more courage — Kate would love to help.