ABOUT ME

  Hi, I'm Catherine Hulme. I am an experienced and fully qualified Executive and Wellbeing Coach. I’m also a qualified Coaching Supervisor.

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:


  • Executive and Wellbeing Coach for individual clients. 
  • Consultant Career Coach delivering outplacement support for large organisations such as HSBC.
  • Leadership and Development Coach for schools, building sustainable coaching cultures through immersive training and accreditation.
  • Coaching Supervisor for trained coaches seeking to develop their practice through reflective professional dialogue.
  • Accredited Practitioner of Clarity4D personality profiling. 


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. 

  • Respect

    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.

  • Responsibility

    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.

  • Resilience

    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. 

  • Recreation

    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. 


Qualifications & Credentials

  • ILM Level 7 Coaching Supervision (British School of Coaching)
  • Master Coach for Coaching in Schools (Leadership Edge 2018 Ltd)
  • ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching (British School of Coaching)
  • ILM Certificate in Wellbeing Coaching (British School of Coaching)
  • Mental Health First Aid (MHFA England)
  • NLP Diploma (INLPTA)
  • Licence: Colour-based personality profiling (Clarity4D Ltd)
  • Member of Association for Coaching
  • Member of ICF (International Coaching Federation)
  • Professional Indemnity and Public Liability

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)

What Catherine's clients have said...

“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

“Often when you have a conversation, the other person has things they want to get across but the coaching conversation was purely about what I wanted to talk about... 

Catherine allowed me to 
explore things without feeling rushed and responded to what I spoke about rather than having any alternative agenda that we had to get through.” 

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