When performance starts to cost more than it delivers.
For organisations
Your best people are giving everything they have.
That’s exactly the problem.
When high-performing professionals operate at the edge of their capacity for too long — or return to work after a significant absence — performance, relationships, and wellbeing deteriorate together. Generic coaching addresses the symptoms. This work addresses what’s underneath them.
What makes this different
Not leadership development.
Something more precise.
Most executive coaching works on behaviour: habits, communication, goal-setting. Kate’s work goes further: to the patterns underneath behaviour, the ones that don’t respond to insight or good intentions alone.
This matters because the professionals most worth investing in are often the ones whose patterns are most deeply embedded. High achievers, people-pleasers, those who perform brilliantly under pressure until, one day, they don’t. The issue was never capability. It was never motivation. It was a learned way of responding that hasn’t been updated.
When that changes at the level where it actually lives, the results are durable in a way that training programmes and strategy workshops rarely are.
Four engagements.
For employees returning after maternity or parental leave, serious illness, or extended absence such as secondment. Covers identity reintegration, confidence restoration, and re-engagement with professional self. The retention ROI is significant as this programme costs a fraction of what it costs to lose the person.
A defined scope, a clear goal, measurable outcomes. For leadership presence, assertiveness under pressure, communication, stress resilience, or role transition. The most commonly commissioned engagement — easy to approve, straightforward to report on.
One session per month, ongoing. For senior leaders who need consistent, confidential access to a specialist. Not a fixed programme, but a sustained reflective relationship. Particularly suited to C-suite and very senior professionals navigating sustained complexity.
For senior professionals navigating significant pressure, identity challenges, or complex leadership transitions. Higher-frequency intensive phase followed by structured consolidation. Includes tripartite contracting, mid-point sponsor review, and end-of-programme outcomes report.
How it works
Fully confidential.
Always.
Session content is never shared with the commissioning organisation without the coachee’s explicit written consent. Outcomes reports (where agreed) cover agreed goal parameters only, not personal content.
All corporate engagements begin with a brief tripartite conversation between Kate, the coachee, and the organisational sponsor, to align on goals and establish clear boundaries. This protects everyone, including the organisation.
Kate works with a small number of corporate clients at any one time. Her approach is systemic as well as individual — understanding the organisational context is part of the work, not an afterthought. This shared commitment is what makes the difference between coaching that changes something and coaching that changes nothing.