Kathryn Goetzke, MBA, is CEO & Chief Hope Officer of The Shine Hope Company, Founder of iFred (2004), the Author of ‘The Biggest Little Book About Hope‘, podcast host of The Hope Matrix, Creator of award winning Hopeful Minds, Hopeful Cities, and Hopeful Mindsets. In 2004, launched Mood-lites™, a brand that achieved over 35 million dollars in retail sales and ran the first cause marketing campaign for mental health. She was recently appointed to represent the World Federation for Mental Health at the United Nations, the first organization in the world for mental health established in 1948 that sets the theme for World Mental Health Day on October 10th, where she represents the almost 1 billion people around the world with mental health disorders. Kathryn is currently working to get a resolution passed at the United Nations for an International Day of Hope, to ensure all around the world know you can measure and teach hope.
She is currently working to license the Hopeful Cities programming to cities around the world, to ensure all know what hopelessness is, and are equipped with skills for ‘how’ to Shine Hope™ (Stress Skills, Happiness Habits, Inspired Actions, Nourishing Networks, and Eliminating Challenges). The company has Shine Hope evidence-based educational programs for all ages, and public health campaigns with universal language to normalize hopelessness (we all have moments of hopelessness), and ensure all know ‘how’ to hope, engaging with sectors in government, healthcare, science, arts, education, and workplaces. She authored a comprehensive Hopeful Cities Playbook with both no cost resources and licensed programming, and wants everyone in the world to be able to write their own Shine Hope Story.
Kathryn is a global mental health ambassador, overcoming her own battles with depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, and addictions through therapy, medication, lifestyle changes, support, and ultimately learning ‘how’ to hope. She has been sober for over 20 years, and ten years ago, she set out to prove her theory that hope was teachable and created award-winning evidence-based programming that accomplished that feat that she uses to manage her own mental health. She lost her father to suicide at 18 and knows all too well the negative consequences of untreated mental health on both the self and the family system.
- Favorite Stress Skill: Meditation
- Non-negotiable Happiness Habit: Exercise, Sleep, 80% Healthy Foods.
- Current Stretch Goal: Teaching the whole world ‘how’ to hope.
