executive coaching
Catalyze your career
An executive coach is someone to collaborate with to speed your career growth and help you achieve your short-term and longer-term goals.
Kat’s positive coaching style makes professional growth a fun and empowering process. Katalyst Coaching provides structure, tools and feedback to help clients overcome obstacles, grow their capabilities, increase their influence, reduce workplace stress, and take control of their work life. Mutual trust and honesty are the foundations of Katalyst Coaching. Together, you build on your strengths and focus on actions that provide continued progress and growth, accelerate success and increase job satisfaction.
What is coaching?
An executive coach is a partner and guide. As a coach, Kat provides structure, support and feedback to her clients to identify and apply key strengths, meet their professional goals, improve communications and organizational influence, build leadership skills, and facilitate growth. Her process is a catalyst for forward progress.
Kat focuses on a client’s strengths and values. She helps clients create goals consistent with their values and helps them use their strengths to make progress toward these goals. Assessments can be included for identifying personality type, strengths, and emotional intelligence (EI). EI is key to effective leadership and is central to her practice. It involves building self-awareness, self-management, empathy, and managing relationships.
How does coaching work?
As a coach, Kat partners with clients to identify key strengths and apply them to current challenges. Her approach is honest and direct, with an emphasis on positive change. Your conversations are completely confidential.
A short initial call is the first step to determine fit. Kat describes her approach and services offered, and learns what you would like to accomplish. If you decide to go forward, the first session is usually in-person or via video call to dive into the details of your current situation and primary goals. After that, meetings are arranged at mutually agreed upon times and locations, and can be done in person, by telephone or video calls. Initial engagements are typically 6 months. Meeting frequency varies, but is typically 3-4 times per month.
Who can benefit?
The benefits of coaching depend on what you choose to work on with your coach. Clients often see immediate impact and sustainable improvements.
The following are examples of focus areas for executives, startup CEOs, medical professionals, high potential professionals, the newly promoted, and organizations that need help with strategic planning or team dynamics.
EXECUTIVEs
Executives know it is, in fact, lonely at the top. As an executive coach and sounding board, Kat is the thought partner you need to work through difficult and sensitive dilemmas and further develop your leadership skills.
Benefit from an objective thought partner and sounding board
Better manage organizational change
Develop executive presence and leadership
Deliver more effective positive feedback and constructive critique
Lead and motivate employees
Adapt managerial style to maximize influence
Resolve conflicts productively
Develop strong management team
Increase organizational influences
high potential professionals
High potential professionals learn to navigate workplace politics and personalities, communicate effectively, reduce stress, and increase confidence.
Speed learning and boost performance
Increase engagement and effectiveness
Navigate workplace politics and personalities
Effectively communicate with different personality types
Reduce stress and increase confidence
Improve time management
Achieve better work/life balance
Startup CEOs
Startup CEOs use coaching as time for reflection to focus on strategy and business planning, and work through operational issues.
Gain a thought partner for strategy and business planning
Explore strategies for raising capital
Improve change management skills/ increase adaptability
Effectively recruit, hire, motivate and manage employees
Develop executive presence, clarity of communication and leadership
Reduce stress and increase confidence
NEWLY PROMOTED
The newly promoted often need new skills to succeed in their new role. Kat helps identify what to keep doing, stop doing, and start doing to rapidly adjust and excel.
Rapidly come up to speed in your new role
Build on existing strengths
Identify what to keep doing, stop doing and start doing
Broaden influence within organization
Effectively recruit, hire, motivate and manage employees
Learn to adapt managerial style to optimize effectiveness
Resolve conflicts productively
Medical Professionals
Medical professionals develop strategies to help them keep their cool under pressure, reduce stress, and train and motivate staff so they can deliver quality health care to their patients.
Learn how to productively manage conflict
Practice positive techniques for influencing others
Improve communications with peers, patients and staff
Increase day-to-day workplace enjoyment and fulfillment
Establish restorative self-care routines
ORGANIZATIONs
Organizations struggle with retaining talent and creating a clear vision in our rapidly changing world. Katalyst Coaching delivers higher performing, more satisfied employees.
Higher performing employees
Greater employee retention due to increased job satisfaction
Stronger communications
Better conflict resolution
More resilient to change
Reduced stress and workplace burnout
Defined succession plans for key executives