Testimonials

Feeling More Positive

“I would highly recommend business coaching with Katherine.  It’s motivational, makes you feel positive, gives you direction and helps you look at different strategies to achieve your goals.”

C Booth

A Dedicated and Compassionate Coach

“Katherine is a professional, dedicated, inquisitive, direct and compassionate Coach.  She has a wonderful ability to make you think, challenge you, care about you and make you laugh all at the same time.”

L Robinson

Renewed Conviction and Greater Sense of Control

“Katherine worked with me through a particularly tough transition in my career. I have always been ambitious and successful in pushing my career forward and after 15 years, I was, for the first time, clear on only one thing: that I had lost any sense of control at work and I was so demotivated, I had lost the belief that it was in my power to change it. The coaching sessions with Katherine helped me gain awareness of why I was reacting and behaving in certain ways in certain situations, which I had been totally unaware of previously. By exploring what was driving my behaviour, I was able to use her techniques to help control those emotional reactions so that I could handle the situations better.

We worked through a number of exercises and frameworks that helped me recognise what was really important to me and to clarify what I did and did not want from my job and from my life. Taking the time to put my thoughts objectively on paper and to be probed by Katherine on the reasons why I made those choices helped me to gain back my conviction and my sense of control.

In parallel, Katherine also gave me some really useful, practical questioning techniques to use during job interviews to gain an understanding of the softer aspects of the culture I was potentially going to be joining. Both during the coaching process and subsequently, I have referred back often to my session notes, my answers to the exercises and the questioning techniques. I continue to use some of them to deal with the ongoing challenges I face in my new job – both by applying them to my bosses and my teams – with strong success. Thank you, Katherine!”

M Carter

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Moved my Business Forward

“Katherine has been instrumental in helping me realise what type of business venture I had and empowered me to identify how best to take it forward.”

L Wheeler

From Chaos to Order

“I have enjoyed working with Katherine.  She has helped me to make some very positive and very real changes to the way I work and view myself. Katherine has helped me to make sense of what was a quite difficult transitional period in my life, converting chaos into order and reminding me celebrate every success, no matter how small, with a happy dance.”

A Douglas

Highly Recommended

“Katherine has succeeded in helping me to assess my strengths and weaknesses and to search for new horizons which has allowed me to move on and progress to a different area in life.  She has a rare gift in teasing out issues and personal concerns to help me make better decisions for myself.  I highly recommend her as a coach.”

S Milrose

A Pathway for Personal and Business Direction

“How informative our sessions have been – clear – direct- structured,  forming a pathway for personal and business direction.  It was good to talk with someone who has empathy with the problems that can stop us from going forward to achieve all we should in life. It makes you stop and think positively before taking steps. I highly recommend Katherine to everyone who comes into contact with her on a professional basis.  Take the time to work with her as a coach as it will make a difference to your life.”

L Oldershaw

Exceptional

“Katherine’s ability to understand people and help with their personal development is exceptional”.

S Grover

A Safe Forum where I could Open Up

“She has an amazing steady presence, is not afraid of digging deeper, sharing thoughts, helping you see things from a new perspective and sharing resources.  With Katherine, I found a safe forum where I could open up everything on my ‘plate’ . I was able to look at my business and what was missing and ‘process’ what was not working well to transform it into the next phase for me”.

T Abend

Honest, Direct and Compassionate

“Katherine has an honest, direct, compassionate coaching style, helping her get to the heart of the matter. She holds the space while challenging you to look at new ways of doing things.  As a result of working with Katherine,  I give myself permission to experience life in a variety of ways, rather then expecting one “ideal” way for things to work out. I am now able to breathe more easily and enjoy life more.”

A Covaci

Knowledge, Experience and Determination

“Katherine sets a fine example for a great Coach who has knowledge, experience and determination to help in any situation personal or business.  I was really impressed with all the work that Katherine did with me. I am now more focused and know when to stop as well! My key takeaway has been problem solving. I was pretty bad at solving problems and over the last 5 months she slowly taught me how to ask myself questions which will give me the solutions I’m seeking.”

I West