Global Impact
& Legacy Work

Legacy Beyond Borders

Relational healing, leadership support, and values-based legacy consulting across generations and cultures.

What is Global Impact & Legacy Work for Families?

Kate Appleton’s global work lives at the intersection of legacy, belonging, and healing. She partners with families, foundations, and mission-driven organizations across nine countries to navigate emotional complexity, generational transition, and systemic repair. Whether supporting international families through succession or working with nonprofits in underserved communities, Kate brings a rare blend of somatic insight, cultural sensitivity, and relational depth to every engagement. Her goal is not just to address the moment—but to build a legacy rooted in connection, purpose, and global responsibility.

Why Global Consulting is Different, and Creates Lasting Change

Change that spans borders & generations

Global families and mission-driven organizations often find themselves in complex emotional territory that traditional advisors, therapists, or consultants are not equipped to address. Legal teams handle structure. Financial advisors manage assets. But few know how to navigate the emotional dynamics, identity shifts, spiritual disconnection, or relational wounds that quietly shape the way families and teams live, lead, and relate across generations.

Kate’s consulting experience is different because it meets these challenges at the root. Drawing on five decades of experience, she blends strategic insight with nervous system regulation, ancestral healing, and embodied presence. Her work honors the full humanity of each person in the system—whether they are grieving, leading, or preparing to pass on more than just wealth. It’s not about performance. It’s about realignment, reconciliation, and remembering what matters most.

Change that spans borders & generations

Global families and mission-driven organizations often find themselves in complex emotional territory that traditional advisors, therapists, or consultants are not equipped to address. Legal teams handle structure. Financial advisors manage assets. But few know how to navigate the emotional dynamics, identity shifts, spiritual disconnection, or relational wounds that quietly shape the way families and teams live, lead, and relate across generations.

Kate’s consulting experience is different because it meets these challenges at the root. Drawing on five decades of experience, she blends strategic insight with nervous system regulation, ancestral healing, and embodied presence. Her work honors the full humanity of each person in the system—whether they are grieving, leading, or preparing to pass on more than just wealth. It’s not about performance. It’s about realignment, reconciliation, and remembering what matters most.

What makes Kate’s approach unique:

  • Combines legacy consulting with emotional intelligence, cultural respect, and somatic depth
  • Centers relationships and values, not just wealth, roles, or impact metrics
  • Brings safety and clarity to emotionally charged transitions and leadership handovers
  • Moves beyond checklists into deep relational repair, meaning-making, and sustainable alignment
  • Creates space for grief, spirituality, and identity exploration within high-functioning systems
  • Facilitated with warmth, discretion, and the presence of a seasoned elder

How Kate Works with Families

Kate’s consulting engagements are offered in a concierge-style format, designed to meet the unique needs of each family system. Most clients work with her on a retainer basis within a structured container, often spanning three months, six months, or a full year. These customized packages provide ongoing access, immersive sessions, and strategic support tailored to the emotional and relational complexity that wealth can magnify. Every engagement is crafted with discretion, depth, and intention.

Common Challenges This
Work Addresses

Even across continents, many of the core struggles Kate sees are the same: disconnection, emotional shutdown, unclear roles, and a longing to live and lead with more integrity.

Global families, leaders, and organizations often face:

  • Emotional rupture or silence across generations
  • Values misalignment during succession or leadership transitions
  • Unprocessed grief or inherited trauma from cultural or family history
  • Burnout or disconnection in those doing mission-driven work
  • A desire to pass down meaning, not just assets or influence
  • Confusion about how to integrate spirituality, justice, and healing into legacy work

Kate’s work is customized for each context, whether she’s guiding a global family through succession or supporting a nonprofit team in developing trauma-informed practices. She blends consulting, coaching, facilitation, and spiritual reflection into a process that restores clarity and strengthens relational infrastructure.

Global families, leaders, and organizations
need global expertise
  • Legacy and succession consulting rooted in emotional and cultural awareness
  • Intergenerational healing work with global families and family offices
  • Values clarification and vision alignment for foundations or leadership teams
  • Immersive retreats or team intensives that bring people into deeper connection
  • Integration of local wisdom, ritual, &spiritual care in international settings

WORK WITH KATE

Who This Is For, And What Becomes Possible

This work is for families, leaders, and organizations that want their impact to be whole, measured not just by outcomes, but by the integrity of their relationships and the depth of their values.

This is ideal for:

  • Global families navigating succession, disconnection, or values misalignment
  • Foundations and leadership teams wanting to build trust and purpose across generations
  • High-net-worth individuals or boards seeking emotionally intelligent legacy planning
  • Nonprofits needing trauma-informed integration after treatment or crisis response
  • Spiritual or mission-aligned leaders looking to realign their inner and outer work

This is ideal for:

  • Global families navigating succession, disconnection, or values misalignment
  • Foundations and leadership teams wanting to build trust and purpose across generations
  • High-net-worth individuals or boards seeking emotionally intelligent legacy planning
  • Nonprofits needing trauma-informed integration after treatment or crisis response
  • Spiritual or mission-aligned leaders looking to realign their inner and outer work

Through this work, clients often experience:

  • Repaired communication and restored trust between generations or teams
  • A renewed clarity of mission, both personal and collective
  • Emotional integration of grief, loss, or transition
  • A living legacy based on values, not just strategy
  • A deeper sense of belonging, purpose, and global responsibility

If you’re seeking a legacy rooted in connection, not control, Kate offers a path forward.

PERSONAL

testimonials

“As a member of a bigger family and an affluent family, Kate has been instrumental in helping me understand the nature and the dynamic that this brings within families.

She has been phenomenal in helping me understand my role as a father, a member of my family, and a member of a board. She has helped me across many areas of both personal, spiritual, and commercial relationships. She has shown me that healing takes place in relationships, and how to slow down, pause, not miss the moment and move forward in a much more effective way than I was.

In essence, if you’re looking for somebody to help find your blind spots and share that in a very safe way, Kate Appleton is your go to.”

–       Richard