Katie Hodgson Business mentor and coach
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Katie provides developmental coaching to people in business who want to develop their business or professional style and effectiveness. Through her work, Katie supports the client to have an increased and sustainable capacity to deal with and to influence their environment and to look after their own internal needs.
Katie believes that all individuals are experts about themselves. Her style as a coach is to act as a supportive thinking partner who will help her client unlock their own potential; she also challenges her clients to recognise their own beliefs and assumptions, in order to provide opportunities for growth and change. Katie balances a focus on a strategic perspective and clear outcomes with a very practical and pragmatic bias towards action and delivery. Having coached hundreds of leaders, she has a tried and tested toolbox for facilitating both personal and team change.
Areas of Specialism
Functional experience
Qualifications & Education
Katie believes that all individuals are experts about themselves. Her style as a coach is to act as a supportive thinking partner who will help her client unlock their own potential; she also challenges her clients to recognise their own beliefs and assumptions, in order to provide opportunities for growth and change. Katie balances a focus on a strategic perspective and clear outcomes with a very practical and pragmatic bias towards action and delivery. Having coached hundreds of leaders, she has a tried and tested toolbox for facilitating both personal and team change.
Areas of Specialism
- Strategic leadership development
- Transitions both personal and organisational
- Working in large, international &/or matrix organisations
- Business results – operating effectively and delivering through others
- People, teams and stakeholder management
- Career development and planningFunctional experience
Functional experience
- Strategic leadership
- General management
- Corporate and large organisations
- SME/high growth organisations
- Supply Chain (including FMCG and manufacturing/industrial)
- Tech industry
- Charity sector
Qualifications & Education
- Katie is a qualified Practitioner Coach with European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
- Completed Foundation in Coaching Skills May 2012
- Attended Certificate in Coaching 2013/14 (first year Masters degree)
- IOD Certificate in Company Direction, Distinction 2012
- Other qualifications: Strengthscope (2020), Conscious Business Coaching (2020), Mental Health First Aid (2021)
Dance like everyone you care about is watching so put your heart in it
Love like you will always get hurt and it’s worth the risk
Sing for the whole world and be loudly you
Live for here & now - this is it!
Love like you will always get hurt and it’s worth the risk
Sing for the whole world and be loudly you
Live for here & now - this is it!