About Kerry
Kerry pairs her experience working on four continents with a passionate, community-minded approach, helping her clients enhance effectiveness, achieve goals, and deepen personal fulfillment.
Her expertise includes executive coaching, team development, organizational development, and women in leadership. Whether working with individuals or organizations, her goal is to enable her clients to live and lead from core values in order to make a more meaningful impact at work, at home, and in communities. Kerry is proud that Watershed Coaching is a certified B (Benefit) Corp.
Kerry founded the Women’s Leadership Circles of Vermont, an intensive leadership program, and in 2013 she was invited to speak at the International Women’s Leadership Conference on the success of the program. She served as Commissioner for the Vermont Commission on Women from 2014-2020.
Kerry believes that life is an adventure and that growth happens when we operate in our “stretch zone.” She has organized unguided rafting expeditions north of the Arctic Circle and backpacked through Siberia. In her youth, Kerry was a competitive gymnast who trained at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado.
Former faculty of Marlboro College Graduate School, Kerry has a master’s degree in International & Intercultural Relations with a focus on human resource development from the SIT Graduate Institute, and an undergraduate degree from Villanova University. She is an associate with the nationally-recognized Strozzi Institute, for somatic coaching. Kerry is certified as an integral coach through New Ventures West, and as a mediator through the Center for Dispute Settlement.
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More about Kerry
I love to live in the “stretch zone.” In 1995, I journeyed on a 28-day backpacking adventure to Siberia in the Altai Mountains on the Mongolia-China border. Invited by a friend, I joined a group of Lithuanian geology students to this remote part of the world just after the crumbling of the Soviet Union.
It was a crazy trip, paddling for days on a makeshift wooden-framed raft across a 55-mile lake, hiking mountains for two-and-half weeks with 60-pound packs, foraging for mushrooms to supplement our meager rations, and meeting amazing locals along the way. It was a life-changing experience that reminded me of the importance of listening to that voice inside that says “yes” even though it feels scary.
Prior to my Siberian trek, I had been a competitive gymnast and had trained at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado, so I understand about taking calculated risks. I know that falls are a part of the sport, but it’s what I choose to do after that that matters.
After college, I lived in Soviet-occupied Lithuania during the independence period, dropping into a completely different world where I didn’t understand the language and learned to become a part of a society that felt different from my own at the time. I then worked at the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington, DC. I am presently Honorary Consul of Lithuania to Vermont.
My Stretch Zone
In 2003, we moved from Washington, DC to Brattleboro, VT to support our goal of living in a small and vibrant community, while also being close to nature.
Though our lives feel more settled now, I’m still trying to live in the stretch zone, raising two daughters, growing my business, and finding daily practices, which help me live from my best self to feel alive and connected.