Hi I’m Kat Koh, a creative career coach.
This question rolls around in my head, like a milky blue marble on slanted oak floors:
How do we live creative, fulfilling lives in the AI era?
Welcome to my dogged attempts to find out. You’ll see a mix of
my takeaways from coaching since 2015
tales from my life
AI / GenAI + its impact on creatives — and what to do about it
reviews of exquisite books / film / art / design
interviews with people who make Exquisite Work
Partial list of topics:
creativity for non-beginners • how to stand out and make money in the AI era • AI… period • IRL + digital connection (and disconnection) • making time for creative projects • time… period • why (all) your feelings are rad • the handmade & crafted • the attention economy • being authentic • your “personal brand” / niche • neurodivergence • mental fitness for creatives • money
About
LinkedIn vibes
Kat Koh holds art history degrees from the University of California, San Diego and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. From 2009—2014 she trained to be a curator at Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, San Jose Museum of Art, and the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Her coaching clients have created for Apple, the BBC, Clooney Foundation for Justice, Earthjustice, MIT Media Lab, New York Times, Tribeca Film Festival, Rhode Island School for Design, Rolling Stone, Princeton, Spotify, Substack, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
She has been interviewed for The Cut by New York Magazine, Marketplace, Creative Review UK, and Apartment Therapy.
Kat is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation and lives in San Francisco.
This American Life vibes
I grew up first generation Korean-American with immigrant parents who owned a small house painting business in Silicon Valley.
Before coaching, I studied another kind of painting: Western art history. Both currents of East/West and digital/analog run strongly through me. They often collide in spectacular fashion.
I live in San Francisco with my Exquisite Husband, love pickles and the salt that makes them possible, wish sad song karaoke was more popular. My beloved part-time job is psychoanalyzing our dog Cosmo (as in universe, not friend of Seinfeld).
I hope this space helps you make Exquisite Work.
We could be penpals. Kidding not kidding: kat@katkoh.com
