ABOUT

KARINNE'S JOURNEY

At 39 years old, Karinne's body knew before her mind that something was wrong. One morning she woke with excruciating hip pain that left her bed-bound for months. 

She was a Headteacher at a primary school in London at the time. On paper, everything was fine. Beneath the surface, something had been quietly unravelling for a long time. With nothing to do but lie in bed and think, she got a journal and a therapist. It was time to examine her life.

She decided to leave her job and take a little time to figure things out. She thought her life was stable enough to take that risk.

She was wrong.

Over the next six months, her grandmother passed away, her partner decided he no longer loved her, her sister was diagnosed with cancer and a new flatmate forced her out of the home she'd lived in for four years. She found herself turning 40 without a job, a partner or a home.

She was, as she now says with affection, firmly in the throws of a midlife crisis.

After months of searching for new jobs and flats, she realised she no longer knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. She was frozen. So she made a decision that changed everything: she chose to stop.

Not a career break. Not a gap year. She took a life break.

She spent over a year focused solely on creative, wellness and health pursuits: yoga, meditation, breathwork, fitness, volunteering and energy work. Slowly, something shifted. She stopped looking for answers outside herself and started finding them within.

That experience of losing everything external and discovering something underneath is the foundation of everything she now teaches. And it is the story at the heart of her talks.

FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE STAGE

Karinne's career has always been about helping people grow. Before she stepped onto the speaking stage, she spent over a decade leading schools and training educators –work that required her to coach, develop and inspire people every single day.

She served as Headteacher of a primary school in London and as Head of Training at one of the UK's largest literacy organisations, where she coached headteachers, senior leaders, trainers and teachers throughout her career.

When she left education and founded Resonates Within, she brought that same coaching instinct into a new context — working with individuals and organisations on the inner work that creates outer change.

Today, as a keynote speaker, she does both at scale: combining the authority of a senior leader, the insight of a trained coach and the storytelling craft of someone who has learned to turn lived experience into something relatiable and transformative.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Leadership & Coaching

• Former Headteacher, London 

• Former Head of Training, one of the UK's largest literacy training organisations 

• Over ten years of senior leadership experience in the education sector

• Coach to executives, senior leaders, entrepreneurs and business owners

Qualifications

• Accredited Senior Fellow of the ACCPH 

• Bachelor of Design & Master of Teaching

• Certified Holistic Life Coach & Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner 

• Mental Health First Aider