Biography
Kathleen (Kathy) Romaine is Range Light’s Owner and a Career Development Coach. She specializes in one-on-one career development coaching services for mid- and senior-level professionals, including STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) professionals, and helping organizations open to advancing a coaching culture across their business enterprise.
With individuals, Kathy works with professionals who are feeling stalled and want a new opportunity or a greater challenge. She helps them to get clarity about what they want – and clarity about what comes next – so they can take on more fulfilling work and make a greater impact.
Within organizations, Kathy’s focus is working with seasoned and emerging leaders. She helps them expand their skills so they can take on greater challenges and new roles/opportunities within their organizations. As a result, the organizations have leaders that are fully engaged, leading to retention of top talent and, ultimately, positive impacts to the organization’s bottom line.
Whether working with individuals or organizations, Kathy implements a client-driven approach. She guides clients through a process that is tailored to meet their individual or organizational needs, aspirations, and goals. She partners with them in drawing out solutions, developing plans to achieve desired outcomes, then helping them to implement their plans and navigate the challenges they face – keeping them focused and motivated – until goals are achieved.
Kathy is a lifelong learner with a voracious curiosity. Beginning her career as a scientist, she reveled in taking on new challenges and learning new skills, evolving into leadership roles in project and program management, resource and operations management, talent acquisition, performance optimization, business development and strategy. Two of Kathy’s key takeaways from her career journey are: 1) times of change/new challenges result in periods of tremendous personal growth; and 2) people are at their best when there is alignment between who they are and what they do.
These key learnings led Kathy to form and launch Range Light. Range Light is the result of Kathy’s own work aligning skills, interests, and career. She understands the unique challenges involved in driving and implementing change and is passionate about and motivated to help others navigate change and achieve their desired outcome with fewer obstacles and in less time.
Kathy holds a Coaching Certificate from Northwestern University's Executive Learning & Organizational Change and a Certified Professional Coach Program Certificate from the University of Wisconsin Continuing Studies. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and an ICF-credentialed coach (Associate Certified Coach).
Kathy earned her Duke Environmental Leadership Master of Environmental Management (DEL-MEM) from Duke University and her Bachelor of Science (biological science) from the University of Wisconsin. She holds her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has more than 25 years of experience working in government, not-for-profit and private organizations.