Katherine Chidiac.
Founder, Plan.be* and author of Now is New.
I'm Kat.
I am a mum, creative entrepreneur, author, coach and teacher.
I have had a busy old life. Alongside being a mum of four, I have studied and founded my own successful businesses, always doing what I love. As a Creative Director I have also helped hundreds of people launch and strategise their dream businesses.
It’s been great. But along the way I suffered and struggled. I tried everything (AND I mean everything) physical, mental and spiritual to help feel and do better in both my personal and professional life. But I always seemed to end up feeling rubbish again. No matter what I did, I often felt stuck and fed up.
What was going on? What was wrong with me?
Turns out–nothing. One happy day I was introduced to my innate health where I finally uncovered my own reliable and infinite capacity to be ok. My shoulders finally relaxed and my eyes twinkled again.
Living the dream… I am truly passionate about helping others be at their best. In 2024 I founded Plan.be*, a gamechanging Transformative Therapeutic Coaching model I have developed to successfully work with adults and young people to help them be at their best. I began the project Now is New in 2022 to realise my dream of enabling 1 million young people to stop struggling and start living a life they love today. It is based on the book Now is New that I wrote in 2020.
Crazy times need our beautiful creative minds!

What I do…
My work is focused on helping people who are struggling to thrive.
I work one-to-one with clients who are stuck or in crisis to transform their experience.
I run transformative programmes for young people.
I facilitate staff working with young people in crisis. What really helps?
Alongside this I love to write and create cool new stuff : )
Who said you can’t do what you want?

Out of the past, in the present, for the future…
The deets…
Katherine Chidiac BA(Hons) MA(Distinction)
I grew up in North London (Big Arsenal supporter). I finished my BA in Graphic Design, specialising in typography in the late 1990s. In the early 2000s, I co-owned a Shoreditch-based design company, Complete Creative, where, as Creative Director I specialised in identity and all aspects of brand communication.
In 2006 after several short courses in metal work I found a new passion and trained in the art of metal smithing and jewellery making. It was during my Masters in Jewellery Design in 2008 where I happily began to explore all the different aspects of my interests and creativity to define my own design language employing concepts of self and jewellery as art in the ongoing art project Precious Identity. I continue to make unique pieces for individuals in my studio and workshop at home. I also founded and co-owned a high street business, Beautiful from 2009 - 2016.
In parallel, I have devoted much of my time to spiritual and self-education, including 12-step and Psychosynthesis (a transpersonal psychotherapy). I was not drawn to share anything that had not truly transformed my life. It was only when I found my home in the brilliant Three Principles, which has taken me across the world, on numerous educational trainings. I worked for Innate Health, a charity in London from 2016 and saw through their transition to iheart through rebranding the organisation in late 2018. I also graduated as a facilitator after designing, developing and producing the iheart curriculum.
I have worked in many educational settings, including Westminster University, Hasmonean Boys School, Gayhurst School, Brighton & Albion Football Academy, Southfields Academy, Queens Park Community School, Christ College Finchley, East Barnet, The Helix Centre, Greenford and Elmgrove . I currently work as a therapeutic coach at Harris Academy, Willesden.
I have also worked with the Wisdom & Wellbeing Collective team within Harris Academy, Morden on their Young Entrepreneurs Scheme, alongside refining their visual communication. I also graduated as a Wisdom & Wellbeing and Inner Game practitioner and coach. I worked inside businesses sharing creative principles with my mentor and friend Elizabeth Lovius. Most notably within the M&S leadership teams.
In 2023 I also co-founded the No1Fan.club with my great friend Marcia Lewis to support the journey through youth football.
Today I spend all my time doing what I love and helping others do the same, exploring and honouring the truth of our experience with individuals, groups and in a variety of educational settings. Above all, I am committed to developing language that speaks to the eternal within us all, through creative projects with fabulous clients and innovative partners.
I love walking my dog, Red, my daily yoga practice and hanging out with my children, often on a football field...
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“I am blown away by this book… I cannot recommend it enough to other young people.”
Rosa, 19