Katherine Powell

I can help with...

• Leadership and life challenges, dilemmas and ambitions

Types of clients I see

• Individuals

Languages I speak

• English

Location(s)

• Birch Room, Langdale House, 11 Marshalsea Road, London SE1 1EN
• Online
• Parnham House (Headcorn, Kent)

Types of therapy I offer

• Coaching

My approach

I help clients to thrive as a person in leadership.

I work extensively with CEOs and executive leaders from a range of settings – corporate, charitable and public sector.

I specialise in working with leaders who are grappling with:

• people dilemmas
• culture
• self-confidence and internal doubt
• career change or retirement
• team dilemmas
• leadership style and approach

Executive leadership can be lonely. You’ll spend a lot of time making big decisions under pressure while trying to be swan-like on the outside.

You’ll smile for everyone else and give everyone the energy they need to be driven and inspired. But that means you often carry your people dilemmas, irks and internal worries alone.

You might carry with you a deep sense of self-doubt or perhaps a secret concern that you’re not good enough.

You might be frustrated with some of the board or executive team relationships around you and keep getting the same outcomes. Or perhaps certain team members make you want to run away, avoid or be less than you are.

There is a lot going on. You want to be your best and sometimes you just feel unlike you – or even a bit discombobulated.

(And, perhaps you’re also a mum or a dad, or going through menopause or just trying to be everything for everyone).

Why bother with coaching?

Coaching is a powerful place to be heard, acknowledged and to find space, new perspectives and clarity on the things that keep you awake at night.

There are coaches that work with the problems you bring. And then there are coaches, like me, who work with you as person. Together we create a completely confidential and safe space in which to explore your inner thoughts and find ways forward. Nothing is off the table – if it affects you, it’s welcome in your coaching space.

We’ll be working at depth. This means that you won’t always walk away with a list of actions or homework. But, over time, you will gain a greater understanding of:

• who you are
• your strengths and values
• the beliefs that you’ve held about yourself that may not be true – and an awareness of how this affects your response to others and situations in the here and now

This awareness gives you choice and permission to turn off any negative beliefs in your head and get on with what you want to be doing and being.

Is it therapy then? Nope! While I have an in-depth understanding of psychology and psychotherapy, we won’t be sitting in your past. Instead, if you want to, we might just simply connect some dots as to why you have the beliefs you have and how that plays out in the here and now.

I use a range of leadership and psychological models to help you to frame and explore perspectives on the dilemmas you bring to sessions. As a trained transactional analytic and gestalt counsellor, many of the models and tools from these approaches can be useful in our work together.

The space will be challenging and we may have some ‘ouch’ and ‘ooff’ moments together because we’ll be getting to the heart of the matter. But it will also be supportive and empowering with bags full of care and empathy. I’m in your corner and walking with you.

Training, qualifications and experience

I have:

• a degree in Psychology
• an master’s in Coaching Psychology
• an ILM Level 7 certificate in Executive Coaching

I also have additional qualifications in:

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)
• Transactional Analytic Psychotherapy
• Team Coaching
• Well-Being Coaching
• Coaching Supervision
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

I work with existing and aspiring executive leaders working with companies such as:

• Pay.UK
• CBRE
• PiXL
• Sky
• Essex Air Ambulance
• Education Development Trust
• Ambition Institute
• Aakash Odedra Dance

I also work with senior figures in local government, education and other charitable organisations.

I began my career in learning and development (L&D), later providing L&D opportunities to new leaders entering business.

I am a qualified teacher and worked as both a head teacher and executive head teacher of a federation of schools. I achieved ‘National Leader of Education’ status, which enabled me to support organisations facing challenge as well as advise the Department for Education on the direction of education policy.

I have been a director of a successful charitable trust.

Professional affiliations

I am a member of and accredited by EMCC at Senior Practitioner level.

With EMCC, I have achieved:

• Individual Accreditation (EIA)
• Supervision Individual Accreditation (ESIA)
• Quality Award for Coach/Mentor Training (EQA)

I am also affiliated with:

• British Psychological Society (BPS)
• UK Association for Transactional Analysis (UKATA)
• National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)

Code of ethics

I follow the EMCC Global Code of Ethics.

Fees and availability

• I work online and in person at Relational Spaces (London Bridge) and Parnham House (Headcorn, Kent)
• 1:1 individual executive coaching sessions last 90 minutes and cost £325 plus VAT per session
• 1:1 coaching supervision sessions last 60 or 90 minutes and cost £217 plus VAT per hour
• Sessions can be cancelled, without cost, up to 72 hours before the booking

For an initial discovery call, please email me at katherine.powell@leadwithoutlimits.co.uk.