Client Feedback
Below is a range of feedback from some of Kate's clients‘Working with Kate over the last year has been nothing short of transformative. Her coaching approach has helped me to achieve really significant changes in my leadership approaches, interpersonal relationships within the organisation, and self-awareness. In this time, I've also significantly developed my overall toolkit for tackling leadership challenges - Kate's insightful listening and searching questions make her an excellent "thinking partner" to work through thorny problems with. It's always a pleasure having the chance to work with Kate!’
- Dr Pete Wood, Director of Product Management, The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, (formerly part of Cambridge University)
‘We’ve been working with Kate Jennings for many years and her approach to executive and leadership coaching is very effective. Her work has led to improved performance, behaviours and relationships across our organisation. She’s able to connect with colleagues at all levels and bring out the best in employee performance, talent management and colleague development. She brings a level of experience that helps move us forward and I would recommend her to others.'
- Alison Dickinson, Group Clinical Director, Spire Healthcare plc
‘‘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
Thank you, Kate, for your help in making Marshalls what it is today.
- Chris Annis, Operations Director, Marshalls plc
‘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
‘Kate has the ability the bring out the best in you, by making you dig deep, challenge your inner self and provide you the tools to succeed. She is an incredibly supportive coach, promoting self-awareness and autonomy, forever probing to ensure it’s purely individual approach for each session. A life changing experience that’s made me turn myself inside out for the better at both work and home.’
- Richard Smith, Director of Clinical Services, Washington Hospital
“Working with Kate is a pleasure. Professional, as expected, but also efficient, insightful and adaptable as a trainer and in providing feedback to coaches. Everyone learned loads and even more importantly, Kate ensured we knew how to put our learning into action!”
- James Farrell, Head of Coaching, Environment Agency
‘Just finished a great project with Kate to develop our leaders - C-suite down to mid manager - and Kate has been fantastic! She designed a great programme, customised to fit our culture, unique needs and values, plus provided CliftonStrengths based Coaching to the participants starting at the very top of our business. It's been hugely successful, really impactful and is making a real difference in our business. We can already see improved coaching skills and positive leadership intent through our people interactions. Thank you Kate for your challenge, consultancy skills, adaptability, patience and graft in helping us deliver something awesome to our business leaders.’
- Ria Rogers, Head of People, Hemsley Fraser, a global award-winning training company who selected Kate to head up their own internal leadership development programme'
“Managers and staff have also commented that the skills and knowledge gained from your coaching has enabled them to get the best out of people, improved their leadership skills and transformed their understanding of Emotional Intelligence and interactions with colleagues.”
- Maggie Brown, Head of HR, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (formerly part of Cambridge University)
This programme was unlike any other I have been on and it has been nothing short of transformational for me! I am weaving aspects of it into areas of my life both inside and outside of work with great effect… I am noticeably more confident and self-aware, and feel empowered to develop my career in a way that plays to my strengths and embraces change."
- Dr Rachel Cavanagh, British Antarctic Survey
‘Since our Strengths Finder® work with you, team performance has noticeably improved, and our employee engagement scores have increased considerably.’
- Vicky Garfitt, Head of Data Activation, Kingfisher plc