Leadership Coaching

 

Kat coaches Executives and senior leaders in scale businesses to develop their leadership capability, build high performing teams and create a culture that motivates and delivers. She works with them to identify their unique contribution and lead in a way that's aligned with who they are.

Companies often choose to partner with Kat to help leaders excel during key transition moments like when leaders start a new role, step into an expanded remit or will be managing a significant transformation agenda. The company knows they’ve chosen the right leader for this role and wants to ensure their investment is maximised.

Clients that work with Kat connect to their sense of purpose and how they contribute to the organisation. This creates a ripple effect through their team as they step into more powerful and impactful leadership. Kat coaches for insight - because a single insight can inspire action that changes everything.

Typical outcomes for the leader

  • A clear vision, strategy and plan to deliver the objectives they’ve been brought in to solve

  • A balanced approach - listening to the business to unearth what’s going on and what’s needed and bringing their own innovative ideas

  • Uncovering their personal values and how they become a core part of leadership style, creating a sense of authenticity and connection

  • Growing division results based on a keen understanding of KPIs, how they’re influenced and where the leader can personally create most impact

  • Successful delivery of change into the business – whether a team restructure, new products & services or a technology-based transformation programme. Tools & techniques to integrate and create behaviour change in their team

  • Developing psychological safety in the team leading to diverse thinking and motivated, engaged staff.

Typical outcomes for the organisation

  • An impactful individual leadership plan aligned with the organisations vision and strategy

  • Gaining the perspective of an external coach who works across multiple brands, creating peer group insight and challenging internal ‘this is how we do things’ thinking

  • Authentic leaders skilled at bolstering staff engagement and motivation

  • A strong ROI from leaders who move with confidence through listening, building key relationships and delivering a plan with measurable impact

  • Less pressure on the leaders line manager who knows that a Coach is providing an additional layer of support to enable the leaders success.

 

What clients say about working with Kat

“Kat is a wonderful listener, with a stunning right hook: the ability to land profound and challenging questions at the right time. She oozes empathy and takes time to understand context and drivers. I came to trust her as being fully on my team, knowing that she was committed to my development and my success.”
— COO
“I have greatly enjoyed working with Kat – she challenges me, but in a collaborative rather than confrontational manner. I have valued discussing team specific issues with her and have benefited from her coaching on working with high performers and maintaining that performance. I trust Kat and feel able to be open and honest with her – she quickly built a good relationship with me”
— Chief of Staff
“Change ready – As a coach Kat is already challenging me to engender this into capability in myself and my team, and subsequently through the reporting line of c250 colleagues. Critical thinking is one of Kat’s strengths and she is able to quickly process complex information and present it in a useable, workable form. For example, she ran a group exercise for my team and was able to skilfully precis the sessions into 5 workable actions”
— Executive Director
 

Coaching Qualifications & experience

Kat is an accredited Professional Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching and a Master NLP Practitioner. She has studied neuroscience, mindfulness and resilience, often bringing these insights to her coaching. Combined with her experience as a leader in Financial Services, Kat’s clients find her to be commercially minded, knowledgeable and positively challenging.

Her background as a corporate banker means Kat is quickly able to understand the coaching context, including a firm’s strategy, vision and drivers, working supportively and professionally with both client and sponsor to create positive outcomes for all parties. As a former Head of Coaching for the London & South East region of a FTSE 100 organisation, Kat is well versed in leadership development programmes – their design delivery and embedding through coaching.

Beliefs that inform Kat’s coaching:

  • We all have a unique contribution to make – her role is to help the client unearth theirs and maximise it

  • We are choosing how we think, act and behave – Kat respectfully helps clients notice their patterns and make choices that enable the outcomes they want

  • Coaching is a 200% relationship – both the Coach and Client need to bring 100%.

 

Coaching Approach

Kat co-creates coaching programmes with her clients based on the outcome they want to create.

How this works:

  1. A conversation with the HR/ Performance Lead, who is arranging coaching for the leader, to understand the context

  2. A complimentary session for the potential client to experience coaching, set a clear intention for the programme and determine whether this would be a good working relationship

  3. Kat recommends a programme format that delivers the outcome the client and organisation want

An example 1-1 programme could be a monthly 1-1 session over 6 months, supported by regular dialogue via Voxer (voice notes) to create momentum and a strong feeling of support.

Kat is also available to work with groups and teams within the organisation, particularly at an Executive or senior leadership level.

An example Team Effectiveness programme could include a scoping session, interviews with Board members, 1 or 2 days of team coaching to create agreed outcomes and 1-1 follow up coaching to embed change.

Kat has designed a group coaching programme to support leaders who are in new roles – it helps them to create impact in their first 100 days by leveraging their current leadership experience, the valuable contribution of a small group of peers and specific learning interventions that support the building of stakeholder networks, plans, team engagement and accelerated results. E-mail Kat for a brochure: kat@katthecoach.co.uk