Founder & CEO
Captivating Consulting
Catlin (Cat) O’Shaughnessy Coffrin is a strategic consultant who helps leaders and businesses illuminate the meaning in their work to amplify their impact in the world. Drawing on diverse experience counseling executives in organizations ranging from the Fortune 100 and tech startups to small businesses, public institutions and leading nonprofits, O’Shaughnessy Coffrin helps guide clients to elevate their brand strategy in a way that is authentic, ownable and differentiated, so they can connect with target audiences in an impactful and meaningful way.
Through her bootcamps and 1:1 custom engagements, she has worked with hundreds of leaders around the world to unearth their personal brand and find their voice. She regularly speaks, presents keynotes and leads workshops for companies and organizations such as Deloitte, Capital One and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Previously, O’Shaughnessy Coffrin established and led the Insight & Strategy team at a global purpose-driven marketing firm. In her 10-year tenure, she provided strategic counsel to executives and marketing teams in leading organizations in health care and other industries, as well as many leading regulatory agencies. She also worked extensively with women executives and nonprofits in sustainable agriculture – two areas of particular passion and interest.
In her role, she designed and facilitated strategy workshops, authored brand narratives and strategy briefs, conducted and analyzed market research, developed creative strategies and crafted high-profile speeches for leaders and executives. She also conceived and created FarmNext, a national initiative designed in partnership with the Young Invincibles Advisors to give voice to millennial farmers to shed new light on the increasingly polarizing debate about food and how it is grown.
O’Shaughnessy Coffrin serves on the board of directors for Eastside Academics School in Bellevue, Wash., which provides college preparatory education for students who learn differently. She also previously served on the Board for the Friends of Patients at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. She has a degree in international development from the George Washington University.
Monday, May 1, 2023
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
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