Personal Development, Leadership & Strengths Coaching

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage
— Anaīs Nin

Think differently, act intentionally.

Whether you’re navigating transition, seeking clarity, or looking to create a positive social impact, coaching can help you align with your values, reconnect with your strengths and step into new possibilities.

I aim to inspire people to think differently, act intentionally, and create lives and work that feel authentic, fulfilling, and impactful.

Through strengths coaching, creative exploration, and inspiration from the visual arts, I help people connect with their values, unlock their potential, and confidently make personal change as well as positive social impact. Working together, I will facilitate the space to reflect, develop and inspire meaningful transformation.

  • I am a certified Senior Coach and qualified Inclusive Arts Practitioner with international experience. Curiosity, creativity and inclusion drive everything I do.

  • Because living today can feel exhausting. Human connection is being replaced by technological efficiency, pressure and pace. It’s easy to lose our way, to lose clarity and vision. Collaborating with a coach, trained to listen and question, will invite pause and space. Find your superpowers and learn to thrive.

  • Working with individuals, organisations and communities, I create unique spaces to explore wellbeing, resilience, and impact. This is done with a lens on values, Character Strengths and purpose. Fascinated by untapped potential, I aim to inspire others to live with intention, attention and positive influence.

Three continents.

15 years’ dedication to personal and social transformation.

Personal Development through ‘being’ or performance coaching drives my work with a range of theoretical underpinnings.

Positive Psychology and Strengths based approaches to coaching as well as values driven leadership play a key role in my practice. Key influencers include the Institute on Character www.viacharacter.org with whom I have trained specifically in Navigating Transitions and Character Strengths at work. Jung’s Colour profiling tool is another highly utilised concept supporting self-awareness, communication, understanding and tolerance of others and team dynamics.

Today, using a holistic perspective assists me in building understanding and insight into the challenges that my clients face. I enjoy supporting diverse clients with a range of themes including mental health and wellbeing, building capacity for progression, leadership, managing complex and challenging relationships and working with ambiguity and change.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of possibilities.
— Jean Houston

Strength Based Coaching

1-1 Coaching: Clarity through Strengths

Explore your values and Character Strengths, and how putting these into action can change your life. Considering under use, over use and optimal use of your signature strengths is just the start. Find greater relationships, balance, wellbeing performance.

Small Group: Your Best Self Coaching

Explore your values and Character Strengths with a small group. Working together you’ll consider ways to put these into action to make lasting changes for yourself and others.

Character Strengths Team Workshop

Understanding and applying your Character Strengths is proven to enhance your life and work. Explore your unique Character Strengths profile and how this can enhance employment satisfaction, performance and team dynamics.

What People Are Saying

  • “Obsessed with your session today. Thank you so much, l am absolutely using this with my participants and private clients.”

    - Shirin Diaz

  • "I would not be the same person I am today without the coaching sessions which allowed me to reflect. I have gained useful skills to develop within the police for years to come.”

    - Charlie, Former Detective client

  • My delegates said Cate was the best speaker of the course. I would not hesitate to recommend Cate’s services.”

    – Richard Bazley, National Graduate Leadership Manager

Ready to explore strengths based working?