Kate Chisholm is the Founder of Curious Collective, a coach, and a resilience mentor working with service-connected professionals, including veterans and first responders. After a 24-year career in the Australian Army, with operational experience including deployment to Southern Iraq, she brings a grounded understanding of how high-pressure environments shape both performance and the nervous system. Her work focuses on helping individuals interpret the physical and psychological patterns developed in service, reframing them as adaptive responses rather than problems to be fixed.
Through her COMPASS Intentional Living Program, Kate supports clients to understand what their body has been communicating through tension, hypervigilance, and fatigue, and to translate those signals into practical, sustainable change. Her approach combines military precision with trauma-informed nervous system science, offering structured, evidence-based tools that respect service experience without pathologising it. As a John Maxwell Leadership Coach, Prince of Wales Award recipient, and host of The Curious Collective podcast, she works at the intersection of resilience, leadership, and lived experience to help individuals reconnect with presence, purpose, and authentic relationships.
