Be Essential.
Cultivate what matters. Create what's next.
Change is inevitable.
It’s what you do with it that matters.
Be Essential guides you through change with direction and purpose. We offer self-guided frameworks, high-impact sessions, and immersive experiences for people navigating change and leaders shaping what’s next.
At a time when systems are breaking down and truth feels slippery, Be Essential exists to build a world where change leads to clarity, not confusion - and where what we create reflects what truly matters.
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Tools, guidance, and community to meet you where you are and support where you’re going.
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Self-guided tools to move through change.
Explore The CIRCLE
Self-guided tools to move through change.
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Get access to thoughtful tools, stories from the journey, and live virtual gatherings. Each offering is created to support you through change and help you reconnect with what matters most.
About Kate Atwood
Kate Atwood is someone who’s never been afraid to walk straight into life’s biggest questions and invite others to come with her. She began this path by founding Kate’s Club, a nationally recognized nonprofit supporting children and families through grief. What started as a personal mission became a national movement, helping reframe grief as a shared, human experience.
Over the last two decades, Kate has led projects across the public and private sectors that have redefined how individuals, communities, and systems move through change. Her work lives at the intersection of personal transformation and collective impact. She builds what’s needed when it doesn’t yet exist and helps people, communities, and systems move through change with more clarity, connection, and heart.
Now through Be Essential, she’s weaving it all together - creating tools, spaces, and a movement to help us all remember what really matters and empower us to create what’s next. 👉 For speaking and other inquiries