Meet Our Faculty

CEO & Executive Director of Programs at Life Purpose Institute, ACC, CHC, CTIC, CLC, RYT-200 (Associate Certified Coach, Certified Health Coach, Certified Trauma Informed Coach, Certified Life Coach, 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher)

Katrina Karcher is a seasoned coach, business leader, and passionate advocate for personal and professional growth. As the Owner and CEO of Life Purpose Institute, she is dedicated to helping individuals awaken their potential and step confidently into their purpose through exceptional training programs.

In addition to building a successful career as a coach specializing in trauma-informed health and wellness coaching, Katrina has an extensive background in business operations, human resources, marketing, and program development. This combination gives her a unique ability to understand and support the needs of growth-minded individuals while building organizations that thrive. Under her leadership, Life Purpose Institute continues its legacy as an industry leader in professional training and personal development for growth-minded individuals.

Katrina’s mission is to empower students to build fulfilling lives and careers rooted in clarity and purpose. She is known for her heart-centered approach, strong business acumen, and commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive learning community.

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Director of Education for ICF Programs, PCC, CLC (Professional Certified Coach, Certified Life Coach)

Juliette lives in San Diego with her three children. She has been teaching at Life Purpose Institute since 2019.

Juliette is an Empowerment Coach for Life & Business and the founder of her own coaching practice. She is also a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, a Certified Relationship Coach, a speaker, an educator, and a course creator. Juliette supports her clients through life transitions and helps them to discover their life purpose. She loves to help busy people reduce stress and overwhelm so they can create an empowered life that they truly love.

Juliette is a Certified Life Coach through the Life Purpose Institute and a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation. She also holds a BA in Theatre Performance, a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, and an MA in Mathematics Education.

Juliette’s clients and students report that she is knowledgeable, passionate, warm and approachable, and always willing to go above and beyond to support them in any way possible.

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MCC, CMC (Master Certified Coach, Certified Mentor Coach)

Leah is an instructor for Life Purpose Institute. She has been coaching service-based business owners and executives for almost 20 years. She is one of the leading coaches for high-level financial advisors and advisory teams in the US through her work with ClientWise LLC. She is also a Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner, and a Certified NLP Practitioner.

Leah approaches her role as a coach strategically and holistically by helping her clients develop leadership qualities, create dynamic teams incorporate meditation and other healing practices, integrate effective communication skills, and increase profitability. Through her powerful intuition, she is able to identify both their potential and the source of their limitations. Some of her management-level clients have worked for Google, Walt Disney, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Microsoft, and Northwestern Mutual.

Leah has been designing and delivering coaching skill trainings internationally for over 15 years. Her students rave about her Socratic-like teaching style that evokes their wisdom and encourages peer-to-peer exchanges as well as her brilliance and holistic view of coaching.

MCC, BCC, CLC

Diana Long is the founder of a thriving international coaching practice and author of Dream It, Design It, Live It: The Ultimate Guide to Manifesting Your Next-Level Life. For over 20 years, she has helped individuals and organizations create meaningful change and achieve lasting success.

She is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation and Board-Certified Coach with the Center for Credentialing & Education. She is certified as a Life Coach, Spiritual Coach, and Relationship Coach, and serves as a Professional Mentor Coach for coaches pursuing/renewing their ICF credential.

Known as “the coach for coaches,” Diana is celebrated for her warmth, joy, authenticity, and passion for the coaching profession. She creates a safe, engaging, and inspiring environment where learning and transformation flourish.

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MCC, CMC (Master Certified Coach, Certified Mentor Coach)

Gretchen Hydo is widely regarded as one of Los Angeles’ top coaches. A Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a certified mentor coach, she sits on the Board of the ICF Los Angeles Chapter. As a keynote speaker and trainer, Gretchen is renowned for helping coaches elevate their practice and build prosperous, sustainable businesses. Her signature program, Stairway to Six: From Client Enrollment to the Close—Build Your Six-Figure Sales Strategy Start to Finish, is ICF-approved for continuing education and equips coaches with the tools and strategies needed to achieve next-level success.

Known for her sharp insight and ability to ask thought-provoking questions, Gretchen uncovers clear paths for her clients, helping them set and achieve transformative goals. Over the past decade, she has worked hands-on with individuals, name brands, and notable companies, offering entrepreneurial expertise, public relations acumen, and real-world business strategies to deliver unprecedented results.

With an extensive background in PR, marketing, and business strategy, Gretchen is a sought-after expert featured in A-list publications such as Fast Company and the Chicago Tribune. A graduate of Steve Chandler’s Advanced Client Systems and an instructor with the Life Purpose Institute, Gretchen is known as the Coaches’ Coach for her ability to guide new coaches in launching their practice, creating a marketing plan, and growing their business. For more information, please visit GretchenHydo.com or reach out via email.

PCC, CLC (Professional Certified Coach, Certified Life Coach)

Julia is the founder of Your Greatest Day, LLC, a global coaching practice dedicated to helping individuals unlock their fullest potential and create lasting transformation in every area of life. With over a decade of experience and more than 1,000 clients served worldwide, Julia is known for her intuitive guidance, powerful coaching strategies, and unwavering commitment to growth.

Her professional journey began at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles, where she cultivated a strong foundation in creativity and leadership. She went on to build a successful 15-year career as an International Design and Training Manager, while also working as a certified health and nutrition coach—combining aesthetics, wellness, and personal development long before it was mainstream.

Driven by a deep sense of purpose, Julia transitioned full-time into coaching to follow her true calling: helping others create extraordinary lives. Today, she empowers her clients to rewrite their stories, break through limitations, and experience their greatest day—every day. Julia’s students report Julia is a positive, warm, and good hearted and totally dedicated to every one of her students.

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PCC, CLC (Professional Certified Coach, Certified Life Coach)

Jenn is a San Diego native and an alumna and instructor at Life Purpose Institute.  She is a Certified Life Coach and a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation.  She also holds a BA in English, a California Teaching Credential, and an MA in Education.

As an Intuitive Life and Career Coach, Jenn is dedicated to helping her clients transform their lives from the inside out.  She spent fifteen years as a teacher and is a trained Mindfulness Educator and Reiki Practitioner.  Jenn is passionate about helping her clients use their mind-body-spirit connection as a guide to living their best life.

Jenn has a thriving coaching practice and works internationally with clients throughout the United States and Canada.  She serves clients from all walks of life and empowers introverts, creatives, and highly sensitive people to live authentically inspired lives.

Jenn is known for her ability to create sacred space for her clients and students to learn and grow. Her gentle and kind nature makes her approachable and easy to connect with.  She is committed to supporting all of her students on their journey to becoming successful life coaches.

Allynn is the founder of her thriving coaching practice, Sip Of Positivitea, that serves clients throughout the globe. Allynn’s goal is to help her clients to decrease their stress and incorporate more “fun” in their life. Allynn teaches an eight-week life transformation course derived from Stanford University Business master’s program called Creative Catalyst Journey. Allynn’s students are able to learn practical self-mastery tools to overcome their obstacles and get out their own way. She graduated from Hampton University with a bachelors in psychology, going on to get certified as a life and career coach. She decided to pursue her calling and moved into doing coaching/teaching full time.

Allynn’s students report Allynn is upbeat, energetic, warm, and open to helping her students to achieve success.

An LPI alumnus, Samantha has been a life and business coach since 2006 with clients around the world. She loves supporting clients to have breakthroughs and to actualize their dreams. One of her favorite niches is coaching new life coaches to launch successful practices and market effectively so they can thrive. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and two cats.

Allynn’s students report Allynn is upbeat, energetic, warm, and open to helping her students to achieve success.

Kimberly Haynes is an LPI alumni as a Certified Life, Spiritual, & Relationship Coach, as well as an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. The founder of her own coaching practice,
Kimberly has also launched and operates a successful music career in the new age genre, and is the founder of The Yoga of Voice & Vibration. She is also the cantorial soloist at Ahavat Torah synagogue in Los Angeles, a speaker, performer, and entrepreneur with a bachelors in business from The University of Phoenix.

A long time practitioner of mindfulness, meditation, and body awareness practices, she is known for her warmth, presence, and intuitive coaching style. Her ability to create sacred space for her clients allows them to uncover profound insights & truths that sets them on a path to a life of purpose and passion.

Kimberly lives in the mountains of Topanga, CA with her two boys, two cats, and one dog

Jennifer Anderson, MCC, PMC, DTM, fell in love with the concept of Life Coaching in 1997, when she was a young wife and mother struggling to find career happiness. Upon finding the coaching profession and a coach training program, she signed up immediately and paid for the program with her very first clients. Since that time, Jen has gone on to become a highly sought trainer of coaching skills, a Master Certified Coach and a Professional Mentor Coach.

Jen is the author of the Amazon bestselling book for career advice, “Plant Yourself Where You Will Bloom: How to turn what makes you unique into a meaningful and lucrative career.”

Jen’s students call her knowledgeable, smart, intuitive, fun and an inspiration and a catalyst for new coaches’ success.

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Mark Danzey, PCC., is an alumni of Life Purpose Institute. Mark has been coaching professionals in a variety of industries and settings for the last 30 years and founded Wisepath Coaching to coach executives, directors, managers, and individuals to better lead, equip, and inspire.

He is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach, a certified Gallup’ Strengths finder coach, and an Enneagram trainer for individuals and teams. Mark’s previous career included being a minister and he is still currently an active registered Civil and Divorce Mediator.

Mark and his wife, Tammy live in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Together they have four adult children and three amazing grandchildren!

Carrie is a Certified Professional Life Coach and Health & Wellness Coach, an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, and an alumna of the Life Purpose Institute. She has a private practice in Northern California, where she lives with her husband and their Bernese Mountain Dog, Murphy. She works with clients in transition to regain their footing, reevaluate what they want and redesign their lives to reflect who they truly are. She also creates custom life coaching/mountain biking experiences for women to support them in becoming their bravest, boldest selves.

Carrie holds a B.S. from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and brings 15 years of project management, people management and program development skills into her coaching and teaching. She is also an inspirational speaker, sharing her powerful story of recovery. Over the past 20 years, she has been acknowledged by medical professionals, educators and a former U.S. president for sharing her experience, strength and hope in service to others.

Katie Kanowsky is a certified Life Coach and expert in evidence-based coaching techniques with a grounded spiritual approach to her practice. Serving as the Director of Program Development on the Sacramento ICF Chapter board, she is dedicated to the growth and development of the coaching industry. With a passion for reducing stress, overwhelm, and anxiety, Katie combines her expertise as a coach and cognitive scientist to help clients find peace, clarity, and joy while increasing calm, focus, productivity, and overall well-being.

Katie has completed coach training through the Life Purpose Institute and the University of California, Davis, and holds a PCC credential. Her clients long for the confidence and follow-through to go after their dreams and create a life they love. She is also a dynamic educator, business consultant, and focus coach. Her grounded spiritual approach to coaching allows her to guide clients toward a deeper understanding of their inner selves and connect with their true purpose.

With a BS in Organizational Behavior and Leadership from the University of the Pacific, Katie also holds multiple certifications in the coaching field, including Values2Wellbeing, HeartMath, and Sovereign Mind. She believes coaching is the key to transforming the world into a healthier place to live and is dedicated to the coaching industry’s growth and development. As a passionate and knowledgeable teacher, she is excited to share her expertise with others through the Life Purpose Coach Specialty Certification program.

Pam Ramirez holds a master’s degree in education and is certified in both DISC and Prosci Change Management. She worked for many years in healthcare as an organizational and leadership development professional and performance improvement consultant.

Pam’s coaching journey was fueled by a desire to make a more meaningful difference in the lives of others. After completing her coach training, she went on to get a PCC credential from the ICF and owns her own business, Incline Coaching, where she helps individuals move forward to overcome obstacles to success in all aspects of their personal and professional lives. She is also a certified mentor coach and provides coaching and mentoring to other coaches.