Meet the Team
Katie Carter
Founder & Purpose Strategist
Katie Carter is the SWP Founder and Host of the Seasons with Purpose Podcast. Her passion is helping leaders and teams find clarity, build confidence, and move through all seasons with purpose and intention.
After more than 20 years in the marketing agency world leading global marketing, business development and project management, Katie built her career helping many types of organizations turn vision into action. She has partnered with senior executives and cross-functional teams to strengthen operations, build scalable projects and organizational structures, and drive measurable growth. She has led global business development, HR and Finance initiatives, transformed ways of working, managed high-impact projects and events, and built structures that enabled true growth.
Known as being both a strategist and a doer simultaneously, Katie thrives at the intersection of people, purpose, process, and technology. She blends analytical thinking with creative problem-solving to simplify challenges, connect teams, and turn opportunities into results. She is passionate about helping leaders build clarity, confidence, and momentum — especially during seasons of change. Her work at SWP creates space for leaders to pause, reflect, and intentionally prepare for what comes next — because the strongest organizations are built through purpose, preparation, and people.
Katie is the VA co-chair of Chasing Zero, a veteran mental health nonprofit aimed at getting the number of mental health related deaths among veterans to zero, a government/veteran wife and mom of two teenage girls. She lives with her family in Purcellville, VA and loves Jesus, fresh-picked flowers and sunsets.