Unconventional coaching for visionaries

From exit to Everest - CEOs, Co-Founders, top leaders and adventurers around the world partner with Cat to achieve their unusual and exceptional professional goals.

  • "Cat has a tonne of experience at high growth businesses and her coaching went way beyond what I hoped. Working through my challenges and weaknesses shaped me as a leader and built confidence to take my business to the next level"

    Co-Founder, Series A

  • "The impact of Cat's coaching is a funded company. I had a major mindset shift with VC conversations. As an introvert I find it difficult to open up about my professinal challenges but Cat made it easy and effective"

    Science PhD Co-Founder & CTO, bioplastics scaleup

  • "A solo expedition to the South Pole is so much more than physical training. With Cat there's no doubt that I am better equipped for success in Antarctica. I wholeheartedly credit Cat for her integral role in shaping both my mindset and readiness for this monumental journey."

    Wilderness Dentist, Solo + Unsupported to the South Pole

Being a visionary is hard.

  • - Skilfully take others on the journey

  • - Secure funding for trailblazing goals

  • - Master professional relationships

  • - Communicate your vision and strategy brilliantly

  • - Empower your people to stick and thrive

  • - Make dreams focused and actionable

  • - Increase your influence, impact and legacy

  • - Decide to pursue or pivot your life’s work

  • - Spot opportunity in uncertainty

As well as her private practice, Cat has coached for: (logos) Tech Nation/Founders Forum, Women in Impact Accelerator, Athena FundX, Zinc VC and Private Equity, CPO Track, Founders At The University of Cambridge. She’s proud to be a senior coach for VC TalentLab.

Her clientele deeply appreciate Cat’s unconventional and experiential style…

Cat gives you regular and essential challenge and creativity to ensure all your uncommon plates keep spinning effectively - with investors, board, team, at home - and inside yourself.

Her clients are typically forging their own path or transforming a larger organisation from within.

She combines her unique, varied professional experiences and senior coach training with her warm and perceptive personality to bring new perspectives fast, always with tangible and actionable outcomes.

Cat often works outdoors, and with other visual and experiential techniques, offering an ideal partnership for innovative thinkers who feel allergic to traditional corporate coaching and require high levels of challenge and creativity in their coach.

Intensive, focused and highly personal - transform your inner world to transform your outer impact

Inner

  • Spot your blockers

  • Process the inevitable setbacks

  • Help fears serve you

  • See assumptions and beliefs

  • Transform old habits

  • Let go to grow

  • Harness your superpowers

  • Know your shadow side

Outer

  • Behaviours that inspire and set your culture

  • Clear personal brand story

  • Gravitas and public speaking

  • Understand and motivate your top team

  • Communicate clearly and effectively

  • Set crystal clear goals and strategy

  • Prepare high-stakes meetings skilfully

  • Be greater than the sum of your parts

  • "I was skeptical of coaching and don't like personality tests and vision boards. Cat is a breath of fresh air. She cuts through the BS and gets you to answers"

    Top Creative, globally recognised media brand

  • "Cat has been a constant and invaluable thought partner on my journey through many and varied global projects in space, science and mountaineering. She challenges me whilst also supporting, she sees things in my approach and thinking I don't"

    Analog Astronaut, Scientist & Everest 2025

  • "I'm used to thinking my way through problems, but Cat's talent blew my abilities out of the water. She held a mirror to my thought patterns and behaviours, with candour and compassion, allowing me to radically improve both how I operate and my professional focus"

    World Leading Climate Scientist, Polar Medal Winner & MBE

Cat has worked for over 20 years with world-class creatives, entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and adventurers

Cat treads a truly one-off path that uniquely qualifies her to understand the world’s top polymaths and meet them where they are.

She studied a 4 year Masters of Physics at Oxford University, while writing and directing many theatre productions, going on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, recognised as one of the world’s top drama schools. As a director on West End plays and musicals, she worked for years with A-list and Oscar-winning actors, supporting their mindset and performance on stage.

Curious to learn more about business, Cat then joined a global corporate creative agency for several years, helping guide senior stakeholders in major global brands through huge strategic change. Moving to startups and scaleups, first in-house, she then founded a successful consultancy helping startups to household brands define and action improved customer strategies.

Seeing first hand the pressures and loneliness of being a visionary leader in many fields, Cat trained as a coach. She’s a Senior EMCC accredited Practitioner, dedicated to her profession and regularly taking further training with world-class coaches, bringing her practice under scrutiny from master coaches through supervision, keeping her love and skills cutting edge. She also coaches other CEO coaches.

As well as her private practice, Cat has coached for leading companies such as Zinc VC and Private Equity, Tech Nation/Founders Forum, Athena FundX, Women in Impact Accelerator, Techstars, spoken at London Tech Week 2024 and more.

Adventure is ever-present and Cat works regularly as a qualified polar guide and small boat driver in ice. Her happy place as a duel British and French citizen is the high passes of the Alpes, preferably leading a coaching session, and she’s a qualified sailing Yachtmaster. The greatest adventure is being parent to three fierce little daughters.

Cat has also run the Post Office in Antarctica.

  • "Cat changed my life. I was able to make sense of my feelings and experiences, see and build on my strengths to build a clear new goal and a clear paths of actions I could start on right away to get there"

    Director, major global FMCG household name

  • "Cat manages to step into my head, make sense of what's inside, and put me on a happy path I didn't even know existed. She is the perfect ally on this journey. Super professional, a deep and flexible thinker, thorough, and an awesome human being."

    Founder CEO, HealthTech

  • "We avoided consensus sludge. Cat structured our thinking, enabling us to listen more deeply to each other. She was brilliant at helping focus us on what mattered and design practical next steps. I now have new thoughts and critical distance"

    Founder, Innovation

Cat occasionally takes on new clients, working with a handful of people on a long-term, regular basis globally

<> Private one to one, Co-Founders, Business Partners or Family Office together and their small core teams

<> Short crisis sessions to deep focus away days, most sessions are 2hrs bi-weekly or monthly

<> In-person in and near London UK and the French Alpes, online or a mix

<> Discreet, confidential and NDA-led approach