Commercial, pragmatic and highly focused executive coaching

 

""Sue has worked with me personally for some years as a coach and as a top team facilitator for some of the Brands and Senior Executives within Arcadia. She works with me in a way that has enabled me to achieve speedy, increased and sustainable effectiveness in my career through focused learning. I would recommend the coaches at Executive Coaching to anyone who wants to understand their personal strengths and work in a focused way with an expert coach to achieve their business goals. The coaches at Executive Coaching are commercial, pragmatic and highly focused. The coaching they provide on an individual basis has given valuable insight and helped our senior executives to gain greater perspective in terms of managing relationships, prioritising, strategic thinking, influencing and confidence.""

Siobhan Forey, Group HR Director, Arcadia Group

Coach profile

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Kate Buller

Kate co-founded The Executive Coaching Consultancy and has been coaching for 17 years recently gaining the Association for Coaching’s sought after Master Coach level . Kate also heads up ECC's Executive Coach Training Programme, The Professional Coach Recognition programme which has gained industry recognition by both the Insitute of Leadership and the Association for Coaching. Kate works with clients to support them in setting and achieving meaningful and motivating goals. She is solution-focused and future-oriented in her approach. She has built a strong reputation as both an executive coach and team facilitator where her clarity and her direct approach opens up intelligent debates to challenge orthodox assumptions and stimulate new ideas.

With over 10,000 coaching hours experience as an executive coach and 25 years in executive development, Kate brings all this experience to her work supervising executive coaches, building an enviable reputation as an outstanding supervisor.

"Clients like my clarity and directness and enjoy the intelligent debate and challenge to their thinking. I am an active listener and enable clients to feel understood, this in turn enables them to shortcut to conclusions through a process of incisive challenge and feedback."

Coaching Style

Kate's work as an executive coach is characterised by pragmatism and challenge. Kate helps coachees to understand their unique strengths, their impact on others, how these strengths can be over or underplayed and enable this information to be used in day-to-day business..

Maternity Coaching and Developing Leading Women

As a highly experienced executive coach and co-founder of the Executive Coaching Consultancy, Kate has worked on the maternity coaching programme at ECC since its launch in 2005. Kate has coached many senior women through the maternity transition. As a working mother, Kate connects with individuals, combining this with insightful use of her executive coaching experience. Kate also runs regular maternity coaching workshops, aimed at helping groups of women make the transition to and from maternity leave. She was instrumental in the launch of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s highly successful Returning Talent Programme run in conjunction with Mumsnet.

Background

Kate joined ECC in January 1996, before which she spent 10 years as a management development specialist, heading up management development areas within The Burton Group (Arcadia and Debenhams). With over 15 years’ experience as a coach and 25 years in executive development, Kate has built an enviable reputation as an outstanding executive coach and coaching supervisor.

Training and Qualifications

IIn 1998, she gained a post-graduate Diploma in Career Counselling (University of London). One of the earliest and best UK academic qualifications allied to coaching. Kate has recently achieved an Advanced Post-graduate Diploma in Coaching Supervision and was one of the first UK Executive Coaches to qualify in this emerging field. As one of the first coaches to achieve the prestigious full Accreditation (Master Coach) with the Association for Coaching, Kate was invited to join the assessment panel, assessing applications for full accreditation with the AC.

A Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, EMCC and a founder member of The Association for Coaching; PG diploma in Career Counselling (Birkbeck); Diploma in Business Coaching; Advanced PG Diploma in Coaching Supervision. Member of the BPS and BPS special Interest Group in Coaching Psychology. Committed to professional development, Kate is under regular supervision with a Professor specialising in TA.

Recent Clients

Aramark, BoA Merrill Lynch, Live Nation, Allen and Overy, Herbert Smith, The Arcadia Group, TelerealTrillium, Deutsche Bank, White Stuff, Wolters Kluwer, Bank of New York Mellon, Derwent London.

Contact details

Office: +44 (0)20 7795 6556
Mobile: +44 (0)79 3179 7901
Email: kate@executive-coaching.co.uk
Website: http://www.executive-coaching.co.uk/