Catherine - UK
Catherine is an engaging, insightful and passionate coach and facilitator, who brings great energy to her work. She designs and applies creative approaches to facilitate individuals, teams and groups to embed more thoughtful and effective behaviours, to enable higher levels of performance.
As a founding member of The Centre for Applied Positive Psychology, Catherine is a champion of its thinking, able to help clients flourish in both life and work, guiding their development in practical and focussed ways to identify and address the real issues faced in the workplace and beyond. By helping clients develop behaviours which empower them to find practical solutions to the challenges they face, she has a profound and lasting impact on performance. Catherine works with empathy, insight and expertise to challenge, support and embed sustainable practices with tangible results.
Her working philosophy is to develop the strengths of the individual and team members in order to address areas of weakness and development. Her expertise in team-building and strengthening individual self-belief, confidence and resilience has been proven at all levels, helping clients develop existing and new behaviours to thrive under change and adversity.
Catherine works with non-profit, private and public sector clients, large and small organisations and extensively within the NHS at SHA, PCT, GP practices and trainee doctor level.
Operational Experience:
- Buyer for high street retailer – Boots
- Senior leadership and talent development consultant for Boots.
Qualifications:
- Founder member CAPP (Centre for Applied Positive Psychology)
- IPPA member (International Positive Psychology Association)
- Member of the Association for Coaching
- Qualified practitioner for MBTI Step 1 and 2
- TA 101
- BA (Hons) Management Studies and French.
Specialisms:
- 1:1 coaching for executives, Directors, leaders and professionals
- Facilitating team development interventions at executive and Director level
- Working with high potentials to optimise achievement
- In-depth assessment and design of development interventions for positive, applicable results
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- Design and facilitation of leadership and management development programmes
- Facilitation of change for teams and organisations
- Facilitating 360–degree feedback for actionable results and development
- Facilitating action learning sets.
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Clients
Bacardi Martini, Boots, British Gypsum, Cougar Automation, East Midlands Strategic Health Authority, E.ON (UK and Germany), GP Practices, Jupiter Design, Linklaters, Northampton PCT, Riverstone, Swiss Re and Threshold Housing.
Additional Expertise:
Catherine has been a mentor for the Prince’s Trust since 2010 and is now working with her third start up business. She is a founding trustee of the charity, Evolve Transition Trust, which has the aim of supporting vulnerable and challenged individuals through a life transition. She has also run ‘Skills for Work’ workshops, targeted at improving the employability prospects of vulnerable young people.