Programme Director, Career Coach and Tutor
Kate takes responsibility for designing and delivering career development programmes for CCS clients across both private and public sector organisations in the UK and internationally. She particularly enjoys training in-house employees in some of the core skills of career coaching and bearing witness to the positive impact this can have on their colleagues.
Kate is a Lead Tutor on our open Accredited Career Coach Training course and continues to coach clients individually, thoroughly enjoying working with those wishing to focus on a wide variety of career related issues from career development to career transition.
She brings a particular depth of knowledge of coaching HR professionals as well as those transitioning from corporate life. She has a particular passion for coaching women and supporting them with the skills and confidence to evolve their careers.
Kate’s earlier career included 13 years in executive level HR Recruitment and Interim Management recruitment. After a short career break to have her own family, Kate realised her true passion lay in supporting individuals to find rewarding and fulfilling careers.
Kate is a qualified career coach trained by CCS and supported by her MSc in Organisational Behaviour. She also has completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Career & Talent Management from Kingston University. Kate is qualified to use the Strengthscope individual and team strengths based tool. She is also a qualified Career Coach Supervisor with Oxford Brookes, and she offers group and one to one supervision.
Kate joined NICEC as a Fellow in 2024. Kate is co-author of The Holistic Career Coaching Handbook (Taylor & Frances, 2025).
e: kate@career-counselling-services.co.uk
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