coaching
catherine andrewsexecutive coach
'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced’
James Baldwin
Make sense of what is going on now
Align who you are and how you lead
Get clearer about the professional outcomes you want
Identify and overcome blocks
Explore different strategies
Find new ways of thinking about problems
coaching is …
A structured conversation that speeds up your thinking, helps you gain clarity and get to your actionable goals.
Combines non-judgmental listening, incisive questions, exploration and feedback to create a conversation rich in insight and learning.
Coaching conversations will tap into your natural talents and personal qualities, your skills, experience, passions, knowledge and networks to help you identify & work through any challenges or obstacles that are holding you back.
Coaching is like talking to yourself in a very structured and disciplined way, having an independent sounding board to test out ideas and crystallise next steps.
A good coaching conversation enables you to focus on:
- Areas where you can raise your performance.
- The particular skills and competencies you would like to develop further.
- Your impact and how to enhance the way you persuade and lead.
- How you’re doing a leader, especially where systematic feedback is missing and priorities are not clearly apparent.
Unlike a mentor, the coaching relationship is one of equals and involves regular meetings.
'The mind seems to prefer to think than to obey'
Nancy Kline
my approach to coaching
Each coaching client is different & the way we work will reflect your individual needs. Personal qualities that you can expect from me include empathy, positive challenge, grounded in reality, total belief in your resourcefulness, infectious energy, intuition and creativity.
As a coach I’m committed to enabling you to understand your strengths, what really matters, what the world needs of you and thus the difference you want to make in the world.
My coaching draws on 25+ years of leading organisations in mental health and natural environment sectors. I’ve trained with and run leadership development programmes. I bring all that understanding and insight to my coaching.
I work with individuals and teams both face to face and virtually. Whenever possible we draw on the regenerative value of nature to enable clients to benefit from walking and thinking in the outdoors. This expands the impact of coaching to enable you to access your full intelligence, creativity and intuition, and unearth greater awareness of yourself.
Coaching is always a co-creation, we work in partnership to co-produce a bespoke programme that creatively gets you to the outcome faster and more effectively than you can reach alone.
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.