about me
catherine andrewsexecutive coach
professionally
A seasoned CEO, I enable leaders to step beyond their limits, address critical challenges for themselves and their organisations and realise the difference they can make.
I work with decision-makers across sectors to tackle obstacles in business and beyond, supporting leaders to achieve their unique goals. These include:
- leadership clarity
- strategic change
- collective impact
- personal purpose and direction
Providing a safe space to explore, I partner with clients to uncover their beliefs and the identity that fuels them, bringing this awareness to expand choices and maximise impact.
With over 25 years of leading national environmental and mental health organisations, I’ve studied and observed people and organisational behaviours in diverse environments. I draw on these insights to enrich my leadership development work with purpose-led CEOs across social enterprises, charities and business.
coaching helps you focus on:
Areas where you can raise your performance
The particular skills and competencies you would like to develop further
The impact you are having and how to develop the way you persuade and lead
How you’re doing as a leader, especially where systematic feedback is missing and priorities are not clearly apparent
Inspiring the shift from striving to ‘be the best-in-the-world’
to ‘being my best-for-the-world’
personally
I love my work as a coach, it brings together so much of my professional and life experience. I’m privileged to work with inspiring leaders and teams who are determined to make a real impact in the world.
Originally from Australia, I’ve lived in London for many years. Being from ‘elsewhere’ has tuned my sensitivity to difference and to what it means to belong, and I enjoy the inclusive energy and generosity of this fast paced and messy city.
The natural world and our place within it is a life’s passion. Global heating and ecological breakdown have accelerated exponentially in my lifetime and I embrace our responsibility for acting to transform human impacts on the planet whilst we still have time. I believe our human interconnectedness asks that each of us live by our values and collaborate to co-create the future we want.
I’ve engaged with and led many environmental initiatives to connect people & communities with natural greenspaces and enable deeper awareness and appreciation of our shared earth.
I’m co-Chair of the inspiring national charity The Orchard Project and am also a Green Flag Awards Judge.
As a coach and mentor I support other inspirational organisations including The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network, On Purpose, She Leads Change and the Fabian Women’s Network.
Growing fruit & veg and keeping bees on the allotment keep me in touch with the seasons and I enjoy the opportunity to cycle wherever I can and sail whenever I can.
professional training & memberships
A certified team & business coach with qualifications from leading coaching organisations and exceptional coaching experience.
I subscribe to the Association for Coaching Global Code of Ethics and as an active member of the Climate Coaching Alliance I support coaching’s Joint Global Statement on Climate Change.
qualifications & memberships
Certificate in Team Coaching
Team Coaching Studio
Meyler Campbell Mastered
Meyler Campbell
Fellow
Royal Geographical Society
Fellow
The RSA
Association for Coaching
Accredited Executive Coach
Clore Social Leadership
Associate Coach
Climate Coaching Alliance
Member
European Mentoring and Coaching Council
Affiliate
coaching services
executive coaching
focuses on enabling you and your team to achieve practical results as a leader and can have a dramatic effect on organisational success and individual performance.
team coaching
partnering with the whole team to raise individual and collective awareness, commitment and confidence to catalyse change, growth, action and effectiveness together.
career transitions
offers the space to pause and reflect, ‘between stimulus and response’ to uncover what you want, test new ideas, reflect on learnings and set the course for a positive way forward.
coaching with outdoor intelligence
getting outdoors in natural spaces restores our attention, enables us to be more productive and more able to engage with the world & each other.