Enabling leaders at all levels to excel

INTERNATIONALLY ACCREDITED COACH

'Our work with you has led to improved performance, behaviours and relationships across our organisation.'

Alison Dickinson, Group Clinical Director, Spire Healthcare plc

Kate Jennings Executive Coach

Considering coaching for yourself or your leaders and managers?  As a highly experienced executive coach, I am a trusted partner for many organisations, enabling leaders at all levels to excel. My tailored approach draws on extensive experience of understanding individuals and unlocking their potential. It balances support and challenge to achieve lasting change in performance and behaviours.

Coaching provides an empowering and encouraging environment to explore challenges and achieve your objectives. Contact me to find out more.

Some companies I have worked with

Although every organisation is different, common issues and obstacles exist. You, or your leaders, may wish to: 

Improve results

Move out of the weeds to think more strategically

Lead change

Overcome imposter syndrome

Increase employee engagement

Improve behaviours

Create a positive team culture

Build resilience

Achieve a better work life balance

Manage poor performance

Develop emotional intelligence

Step up into, or prepare for, a new role

Regain your energy and enjoyment at work

Hit the ground running in a new role

With a skilful and experienced partner 

Together, we’ll set goals, identify barriers, and cultivate the skills you, or your leaders and managers, need to succeed. With my flexible approach, developed through years of experience in operational roles and coaching, you can expect tangible results in individual and organisational performance.

Kate Jennings Executive Coach

  • Over 15 years of 1:1 leadership and executive coaching 

  • With over 200 clients globally – UK, Europe, America, Canada, China

  • Across 50+ companies including NHS, AstraZeneca, Cambridge University and Balfour Beatty

Internationally accredited executive coach

  • Internationally accredited coach with International Coach Federation (ICF) - a rigorous and highly respected global accreditation

  • Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring (accredited by the Institute of Leadership), the highest coaching qualification in the UK 

  • Qualified team coach (through the Association of Executive Coaching)

  • Certified in DISC®, Strengths Finder®, PPA® and others

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Action-centred Counselling' (Leicester University)

Who has experienced it first hand:

Before becoming a coach, I spent many years in operations and product development:

  • Working with major retailers, including M&S, Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s

  • Leading teams across the UK 

  • Setting up new sites and factories

What do clients say

‘Kate has the ability the bring out the best in you, by making you dig deep, challenge your inner self and provide you the tools to succeed. She is an incredibly supportive coach, promoting self-awareness and autonomy, forever probing to ensure it’s purely individual approach for each session. A life changing experience that’s made me turn myself inside out for the better at both work and home.’

- Richard Smith, Director of Clinical Services, Washington Hospital

This programme was unlike any other I have been on and it has been nothing short of transformational for me! I am weaving aspects of it into areas of my life both inside and outside of work with great effect… I am noticeably more confident and self-aware, and feel empowered to develop my career in a way that plays to my strengths and embraces change." 

- Dr Rachel Cavanagh, British Antarctic Survey

‘We’ve been working with Kate Jennings for many years and her approach to executive and leadership coaching is very effective. Her work has led to improved performance, behaviours and relationships across our organisation. She’s able to connect with colleagues at all levels and bring out the best in employee performance, talent management and colleague development. She brings a level of experience that helps move us forward and I would recommend her to others.'

- Alison Dickinson, Group Clinical Director, Spire Healthcare plc

‘Working with Kate over the last year has been nothing short of transformative. Her coaching approach has helped me to achieve really significant changes in my leadership approaches, interpersonal relationships within the organisation, and self-awareness. In this time, I've also significantly developed my overall toolkit for tackling leadership challenges - Kate's insightful listening and searching questions make her an excellent "thinking partner" to work through thorny problems with. It's always a pleasure having the chance to work with Kate!’ 

- Dr Pete Wood, Director of Product Management, The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, (formerly part of Cambridge University)

Read these and other recommendations on my LinkedIn profile 

What is coaching?

A thought provoking, dynamic and creative process which enables clients to maximise their potential to achieve their goals.

Ready to explore coaching in more detail?

For an informal chat about how coaching can support you, or your leaders and managers, to achieve your goals.