I help people to make changes in their personal and professional lives, to realign themselves with their core values, greatest strengths and deepest aspirations.
With a wide range of experience in the corporate and education sector, my passion for supporting people’s personal and professional development led me to establish North Star Coaching in 2017. Since then, I have worked in a combination of coaching positions, including:
My core values:
I see equal worth and beauty in everyone; I remain open-minded and non-judgemental with a view to deeply understanding an individual and their unique perspective on the world.
I am strongly driven towards proactivity; let’s face our challenges, recognise our talents (which I see as the gifts we bring to the world), and take responsibility for creating a better reality for ourselves and others.
I was brought up to “always try your best”; this involves some pain of failed attempts, but without those, we don’t get the joy of learning, experiencing and achieving something new.
I value work and play equally; life should be fun, as well as professionally fulfilling. Dedicating time to freely-chosen activity is vital to our health and happiness as we re-create ourselves.
I see equal worth and beauty in everyone; I remain open-minded and non-judgemental with a view to deeply understanding an individual and their unique perspective on the world.
I am strongly driven towards proactivity; let’s face our challenges, recognise our talents (which I see as the gifts we can bring to others), and take responsibility for creating a better reality for ourselves and others.
I was brought up to “always try your best”; this involves some pain of failed attempts, but without those, we don’t get the joy of learning, experiencing and achieving something new.
I value work and play equally; life should be fun, as well as professionally fulfilling. Dedicating time to freely-chosen activity is vital to our health and happiness as we re-create ourselves.
You don’t need to share these values to work with me, but I hope it gives you a sense of who I am.
Supervision Supervisor: Peter Hill (author of the ILM’s Concepts of Coaching, 2004)
Coaching Supervisor: Jenny Bird (author of The Art of Coaching, 2016)
Ethical Business Coach: Martin Howden (author of Courage to Change, 2018)
“It feels good to be listened to properly and not be rushed into saying anything. I like the way Catherine recalls our previous conversation in an appropriate way and sometimes stops and repeats
her understanding of what I have said. This enables me to feel heard and understood whilst also making me feel supported in a non-judgmental way.”
Career Coaching client
Executive Coaching client
“Coaching is a great way to consider issues that perhaps we don’t ordinarily make space for in a busy day. Everyone should have a coach!””
Personal Coaching client
“I ended up, as I have with all of the sessions, with a list of small, achievable actions and the confidence that I had come up with those ideas, I had just needed some support to refine my thinking into things I could achieve. One of the things I listed was actually just seeking reassurance that I was doing the right thing but it felt good to have had the opportunity to articulate this rather than grappling about whether I should do that or not.”
Coaching Supervision client