Kathryn Goetzke, MBA

Kathryn Goetzke has over 30 years of experience in marketing, branding, and strategy. She is the Chief Hope Officer at The SHINE Hope Company, where she consults businesses on activating hope in the workplace. She created a college program Hopeful Mindsets, authored the Biggest Little Book About Hope, and is the host of the Hope Matrix Podcast. She is the Founder of iFred, the International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression Hope, and created the first, free, evidence-based program anyone can download to teach kids the ‘how’ to Hope, as well as Hopeful Cities, a playbook any city can use. Kathryn and her work have been featured at Harvard University, the World Bank, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Kennedy Forum, and more. She was recently appointed to be a representative at the United Nations for the World Federation for Mental Health.