Senior Team

Paul Golf

A highly skilled strategic thinker and cross-cultural communications specialist with experience across a broad range of industries in the commercial, academic, and third sector. Paul sees through problems to formulate innovate solutions and help teams develop greater impact by combining intuitive and systems-science approaches to operational strategy.

Organizations must be positively transformative while remaining focused on generating sales or impact. He is a collegiate leader who draws out the best in employees and knows how to balance reflection and action in decision making, with an approach that is both integrative and divergent.

In addition to Katena, Paul is an Associate Professor in Translation and Enterprise at the University of Bristol and consults in geopolitical analysis and intercultural communication for the think tank, Oxford House Research. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has a keen interest in international development, especially green technologies.

Rachel Molano-James

Rachel is an executive coach and strategist specialising in adaptive leadership, crisis management, and high-impact stakeholder engagement. She helps senior leaders navigate uncertainty, build high-trust stakeholder relationships, and lead with clarity in highly volatile, uncertain, and complex environments. With a First-Class degree from Warwick University and an MA with Distinction from Bath University, Rachel brings a strong academic foundation in cross-cultural and systemic thinking to her practical leadership work

Her experience spans politics, business, and humanitarian sectors — from helping shape two winning mayoral campaigns in Bristol to establishing and leading an international refugee resettlement initiative and developing operational solutions for leaders in high pressure conflict environments such as the West Bank.

Having lived and worked across the US, Latin America, and Europe, Rachel combines global insight with strategic precision to help leaders transform challenge into opportunity and create organizational resilience to drive meaningful, lasting impact. As well as Katena, Rachel consults for the think tank Oxford House Research. She is fluent in Spanish, lives in Bristol with her husband and enjoys watching football, travelling and adventure sports.