My approach to coaching
I bring a straightforward approach to coaching, partnering with you to determine the best way we can work together to achieve your goals. Clients comment on my commitment to them, my intuition and ability to read people well, and the value I add. Together these create a trusting and caring environment which supports leaders and managers, cuts through the fog and enables them to challenge themselves and move forwards.
Feedback on my coaching style spans common themes – collaboration, flexibility, focus, insight, connection, humour, warmth, a sharpness of thinking, clarity and attentiveness – yet I adapt my style to meet your unique needs. By balancing support and challenge, I create a space where you are encouraged to push the boundaries of your thinking. This results in heightened awareness, deeper insight, and meaningful progress towards your goals.
Goal-focused, our coaching sessions provide the time and space to think things through, explore ideas and develop action plans. I hold clients accountable for their progress, combining empathy and encouragement with a practical approach to efficiently accomplishing the work. Previous clients say that I feel like a partner invested in their growth and development.
They report that coaching has improved their critical leadership competencies including:
Strategic thinking
Self-awareness
Managing performance
Emotional intelligence
Communication skills
Decision-making abilities
Who do I coach?At its simplest, I work with any leader who wants to improve, across a range of sectors. Facilitating the growth, development and forward motion that the coaching process brings is my raison d'être.
I do a lot of work within healthcare, both public and private. Additionally I have expertise working with leaders and managers whose technical expertise is not always matched by their people skills, and also with clients who are neurodiverse. In fields such as science, research and academia, leaders are often appointed because of their technical prowess to roles which require a wide people-based skillset. I am passionate about working with such leaders to broaden and strengthen their leadership behaviours, to bring out the best in their teams and to achieve their goals.
Interested in gaining clarity on your leadership vision, challenges and opportunities?
Keen to develop strategies to align actions with the desired outcomes?
Contact me for an informal initial conversation.
‘‘Kate’s insight that ‘we judge ourselves by our intention but others judge us by our behaviour’ was a real game changer for me and gave me the different lens I needed to unlock lasting change.”
Karim Siddiqui, Project Manager, Balfour Beatty
‘I was incredibly grateful to Kate for coaching support at the start of a new and demanding role. She helped me to be very clear about what I wanted to get from every session, asked insightful and searching questions, and ensured that I always went away with some achievable next steps. Kate is a deeply empathetic and at the same time challenging coach. And I believe she would be an invaluable resource to anyone wanting to make the right next step.’
Jane East, Programme Manager, North Central London Cancer Alliance