Katrina Bernard,
JD | CPC.

Practice narrative

Katrina spent two decades inside organizations before founding Faith 1st. She has served as senior HR counsel, chief of staff, and senior-level consultant across mission-driven nonprofits, foundations, associations, faith-based institutions, and values-led employers of 50–500 people. That interior experience — held with discretion — is what the practice is built on.

Faith 1st sits at the intersection of employment law, senior HR judgment, certified executive coaching, and sensitive facilitation. Katrina is a licensed attorney (JD), a certified professional coach (CPC), and a Gallup-trained CliftonStrengths practitioner. She has held employment-law counsel, senior HR leadership, and board consulting roles.

The practice writes and speaks on the specific terrain most organizational buyers navigate without shared vocabulary: supervisory readiness, conduct and culture work, board transitions under reputational strain, and the architecture of a People function that behaves like it belongs inside the institution.

Katrina lives in the Washington, D.C. area; Faith 1st works with clients across the United States. Engagements are accepted on a limited basis each quarter to protect the depth the work requires.