Katie West Bio
Katie West is a dynamic and transformational life coach, laughter yoga leader, speaker, author and founder of The Levity Institute.
She is known for her passionate approach to life and easy ability to inspire joy and laughter in those with whom she works. Katie has made it a life-long goal to see life as an opportunity for discovery, innovation, and connection. Her work holds the reputation of changing the way people approach their lives. She is known for opening her clients up to feeling a lightness or sense of levity previously not thought possible in their lives and consequently, they are able to achieve significantly greater degrees of success.
As founder of The Levity Institute, Katie West’s goal is to be an integral part of the currently shifting paradigm that emphasizes the vital importance of play, laughter, and levity as qualities which are critical to paving the path to our greatest success. Soon the days will be gone where stress and unhappiness levels are the indicators of where we are on the success ladder. Instead, the model is transforming into one that prizes health, mental well-being, and the pursuit of our passion.
Katie West is The Levity Coach™ offering a unique approach to life coaching based on the idea that the more joy, laughter, and play we bring into our lives, the greater satisfaction we feel, the more optimally we perform, and the deeper the level of success and well-being we experience in our personal and professional lives.
She introduces the practices of laughter and play to individuals and organizations to affect a greater sense of motivation, connection, creativity, and celebration in their lives and their work environments.
In conjunction with her work as The Levity Coach™, Katie is a pioneer in the field of laughter coaching, which is a transformational process which creates or re-establishes the practice of laughter into one’s life. Combining the benefits of laughter with the focused approach of coaching, clients are able to bring more laughter into their lives and direct this energy towards their goals.
Katie is also the founder of The Levity Projecta social movement with the mission of creating social change through bringing play, laughter, and celebration to public places. The Levity Project connects people who see themselves as agents of change toward creating an upward spiral of positivity and possibility in our world. The Levity Project’s goal is to deepen our societal understanding that engaging in daily levity is vital for individual and collective success.
Katie West is a graduate from Lesley University with her Masters’ work completed at University of Montana. She is a Certified Life Coach with the ICF accredited program, iPEC. She holds her Certification as a Laughter Yoga Leader with Dr. Kataria’s School of Laughter Yoga.
Katie has also been known as a founder of an elementary school, alternative education consultant, wilderness expedition guide, and an avid telemark skier. She loves living on the coast of Maine with her husband and children.
