Kami is a performance and culture coach at Mindful Warrior where she brings an instinct for winning and an innate knowledge of building and leading high trust cultures and high performance teams to her clients. She specializes in helping elite and professional athletes, coaches, and teams reach their performance goals. Clients also regularly retain her coaching services to help identify their next venture as they anticipate or reach the end of their stellar athletic careers. Kami listens deeply, asks discerning questions, and helps her clients achieve the next phase of their dreams by building high trust cultures and high performance teams in their new workplaces. 

Kami brings her world class accomplishments as a thirteen-year veteran of the United States women’s national water polo team, a three-time Olympian, and a two-time gold medalist to her skillful and passionate work as a performance coach. A true advocate, challenger, and champion, Kami’s performance coaching blends Mindful Warrior’s proprietary approach to coaching and culture design with her training at the Co-Active Training Institute, the Center for Council, and the Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso. Kami is also a graduate of Core Leadership for Educators in Pebble Beach, California—an  intensive, invitation-only, and mindfulness-based residential leadership program for globally-minded leaders. As a result of her rich and diverse experience, Kami is able to coach leaders through complex performance challenges; facilitate workshops to build shared agreements, shared practices, and shared consciousness in order to develop more diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures; advance women leaders; and provide skillful instruction in core values, team covenants, brave space, identity development, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and leadership impact. A gifted speaker and leader, Kami has given talks to corporate, university, and youth athlete audiences across the country. She maintains a national public presence as a popular sports broadcaster for both men’s and women’s Pac-12 and USA water polo games.

One of the greatest water polo players of all time and the number one college recruit in the nation, Kami won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and gold at the Olympics in London (2012) and Rio (2016). She has a number of international successes to accompany her three Olympic medals including being a three-time World Champion, a three-time Pan American Games Champion, and a two-time World Cup Champion. Kami was also the first woman to win the prestigious Pete Cutino award (akin to the Heisman Trophy in football) in back-to-back years. Since retiring from the national team in 2016, Kami has turned her attention to paying her hard work and good fortune forward. She co-founded Camps4Champs a not-for-profit whose mission is to empower and inspire young women through the sport of water polo. She has also mentored hundreds of youth athletes through Rise Athletes where her work has been praised as transformational, inspiring, and critical to her athletes’ mental-emotional health and wellbeing. A 2010 graduate of University of Southern California where she majored in sociology and minored in occupational therapy and won a national championship, Kami is a proud first generation college graduate and the only athlete in her family. Kami is a certified NeuroTransformational Coach, and completed her training as a Co-Active Coach through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). She lives in Long Beach, California.