Meet the Team
Katy Lindell
Founder and Coach
Katy Lindell is a seasoned leadership coach with more than three decades of experience leading high-performing teams at globally recognized brands, including Gap Inc., Starbucks, and Apple Inc. Over the course of her career, she's led large, complex organizations — consistently delivering results while developing people at every level.
Fifteen years ago, Katy was diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancer — an experience that has stayed with her ever since and shaped how she shows up for clients facing a health crisis of their own. More recently, navigating her mother's illness and loss, and the career transition that followed, led her to found Crossroads Leadership Studio. Together, these crossroads shape how Katy coaches today: across career and work transitions, cancer and health journeys, LGBTQIA+ and family dynamics, and loss and grief.
Her coaching is grounded in a simple belief — real growth begins with self-trust. Through her coaching, clients build the confidence to make aligned decisions, lead authentically, and step fully into who they are becoming.
Katy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Arizona and a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from Whittier Law School. She is a certified coach through the Jay Shetty Certification School.
Dawn Darilek
Coach
During her academic journey at St. Edward's University in Austin, Dawn honed her expertise in International Relations and History, while also nurturing a passion for photography. Her professional career began as a paralegal at Fulbright & Jaworski. Later, she ventured into entrepreneurship, establishing two businesses within the arts sector, and went on to acquire and manage a bowling alley. Today, Dawn is active in the Central Texas nonprofit community, supporting a range of charitable causes.
Dawn brings personal experience to her coaching. She has faced the loss of family members and numerous pets throughout her life — experience she now draws on to support clients navigating grief, including pet loss, a loss that's often deeply felt but rarely given the space it deserves. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, she also brings lived understanding to clients navigating identity and family acceptance, which includes political divisions in families. She has also stepped into the role of caregiver during a loved one's cancer diagnosis — an experience that shapes how she supports clients and families facing a health crisis of their own.
Beyond her professional endeavors, Dawn is a passionate vegan chef with a deep love for nutrition.
Dawn received her Life Coach certification from IAP Career College.
email: dawn@crossroadsleadershipstudio.com
Lane Gosnay
Coach
Lane Gosnay possesses a diverse skill set that encompasses scuba instruction, law enforcement on and offshore, entrepreneurship, and decades of experience in the non-profit sector and the music industry.
Lane is a breast cancer survivor and brings that experience directly into her coaching with clients navigating a cancer diagnosis. She has also faced significant loss of family members in her own life, and coaches from a place of real understanding, not theory. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Lane also offers grounded, lived insight for clients and families navigating identity and acceptance. Like most women in non traditional jobs, she has also confronted work place harassment particular during her law enforcement tenure.
Her accomplishments include forming the Gay & Lesbian Musicians Network, hosting house concerts, creating the first House Concert Connection site, serving as the Talent Coordinator for the Houston International Festival (IFEST), and founding and developing The Bugle Boy, an internationally acclaimed listening room dedicated to "Elevating & Sustaining Original Live Music."
Lane finds fulfillment in nature and creative pursuits, and now draws on her life experience and training to guide individuals toward their goals and personal happiness.
Lane is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in Marine Transportation. She holds a Happiness Life Coach certification and a Transformational Coaching certification from ELITE Coaching University.
