I was lucky enough to spend some time with Catherine working through my strength finders profile. It was very insightful! I learned a huge amount. Catherine is very engaging, knowledgeable and very approachable. She has the ability to put you at ease so that you feel very comfortable discussing even the most difficult subjects.
Thank you Catherine.

Catherine is an exceptional human and connector of talented people. It doesn’t feel like business with Catherine because she makes everything personal, real, warm and meaningful. It was a delight to work as part of the team she pulled together to deliver a project for a client. I had fun, learned loads and felt supported to ‘do my thang’ with ease and grace as a result of Catherine’s leadership and endorsement. Working with Catherine is the same as hanging out with a great friend. You should definitely try her!

Catherine is a pretty remarkable person. From my very first encounter I was inspired to spend more time with Catherine, at first exploring my own strengths as a leader but she has generously given her time to sponsor others in my network. The best champion/coach of people (and perhaps life!) I have come across.
Catherine also offers relentless and unwavering support to many worthy causes for various charities and often hosts events herself offering interesting talks and wonderful hospitality!
If you have the opportunity to work with Catherine, please do. You’ll get 2 for the price of 1 – a coach and a friend.

I’ve got to know Catherine over a 9 month period & have been through Catherine’s individually tailored executive coaching programme.
Catherine’s fun, warm and relational style made the programme enjoyable, eye opening & liberating.
I can recommend Catherine to anyone looking to develop their executive career.
Don’t pass up an opportunity to get to know & work with Catherine.

This is long over due….
It’s been an incredible year of learning this last year and one in which I have grown remarkably as a leader, I can say this with absolute confidence and believe me confidence is key to whatever set yourself to, a year in which in grew into a role I’d aspired to do within a business that has given me so many wonderful opportunities.
That said none of this would have been possible without people who believe in you and lead you to where you should be and I’ve had many help me on this journey because they understand and know me and their belief in me has been unfaltering, which brings me to the point of this note.
I was introduced to an amazing executive coach Catherine Williamson, the title does her no justice, Catherine is way more than that, she is an outstanding individual who beyond doubt got me to where i needed to be both professionally and personally, Catherine has absolutely been the unlock to the possible, her technique in coaching is as unique as her infectious personality, she can be tough challenging supportive, expecting, honest and builds a huge bank of trust locked away in a safe vault. Catherine is vastly experienced in both business and life, my time with her has influenced my ability to deliver even more and achieve next level performance within my business, as well as immense personal growth as an individual and leader.
Catherine thank you for all you have done and I’m sure continue to do for me and so many others.

Catherine mentored me and was a breath of fresh air a bit wacky but inspirational. I learnt a lot about myself celebrating strengths and working on improvement opportunities.
I would recommend her whole heartedly.
I will miss our meetings going forward but try to reflect on them it really helps me keep myself grounded.

Catherine is an incredible coach and wonderful person. I have learnt so much from her in a professional capacity but absolutely loved knowing her in a personal one. We have covered a broad variety of topics in our journey together, and I have been constantly inspired and motivated throughout. Catherine can bring any situation to life with practical advice, relevant experience and above all, human understanding. I would recommend anyone to be coached by her, but above all you need a Catherine in your life to bring light, life and laughter. Thank you, Catherine for all your help and support. I’ve loved every moment.

I had the pleasure of working with Catherine at Halfords. We first got to know each other when she coached one of my senior leadership team. I was hugely impressed with her understanding and balance of both the individual’s needs and the business requirements of developing strong leaders.
Catherine then worked with me again leading our graduate programme, alongside our People team. I’m a real believer in grads developing not only their technical competencies but also a sense of understanding their ‘whole self’, since their early careers are so formative for their future.
This is most definitely Catherine’s forte. She has a real skill for finding the hidden talents in people and bringing them to the fore that is insightful and thoughtful yet challenging for the individual. Her warm, encouraging and enthusiastic style is unique and she has positively influenced so many of my team to enable them to become much more rounded and self aware leaders, which has paid dividends to the business.
I highly recommend Catherine.

What can i say about CATHERINE. WELL…make sure you don’t get to the end of your life without meeting her. Thats a fairly big accolade to give someone…but then again – if you’re ever lucky enough to do so…you’ll see that statement was extremely well placed.

Being coached by Catherine is life changing. Catherine seems to effortlessly help you understand yourself and your strengths and arms you with new skills to maximise your potential. Every ‘chat’ really resonates and ‘makes sense’ and you find yourself growing professionally and as a person and operating more effectively without even realising it. The sheer magic is that the skills seem to become a natural part of you and you wonder why you never got taught these things earlier. And it’s so much fun. I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to be coached by Catherine. Thank-you.

Having been coached before I went into the first session with Catherine expecting the usual coaching routine adopted my many. However, I quickly realised before the session was half way through that Catherine was different than the rest, it was a fun, relaxed and rewarding programe to have been part of that has made me think differently about many things in both my work and personal life. Having recently stepped up to board level Catherine mostly helped me in working out the dynamics and politics of the board room including those of my colleagues, we often found ourselves pulling situations apart and putting them back together having learnt from the good and bad, it’s this experience and learning that I will take forward and will benefit me for the rest of career. I have been trained for many years in my organisation but this has been by far one of the most beneficial parts of my learning.

When I chose Catherine to be my coach it was because her personality was so different from mine and I was looking to give myself a challenge.  Her vibrant personality and up-front style were a world away from the fact-driven, technical world of engineering, or so I thought. 

What she has shown me with considerable wit, charm and earthy common sense is that my challenge is to be myself and to share that with others.  On the way she has shared her own experiences both successful and otherwise, authentically, engagingly and humorously.  She has been challenging but also supportive, insightful and compassionate and left me ‘happier in my own skin’.  It has been both an enormously rewarding and enormously enjoyable experience.  If you have the opportunity to work with Catherine I would strongly suggest that you grab it with alacrity – and hold on!

I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to embark on a life-changing, 6 month Executive coaching course with Catherine Thompson. Catherine loves people and has a great gift for guiding them along the rocky path of self awareness, maximising personal potential and learning to bring the best out in others. Her gentle but firm, insightful and grounded approach is disarming, refreshing and highly effective. Anyone fortunate enough to be coached by Catherine will not look back.

Catherine’s style of coaching, her honest, forthright and good-humoured approach has created both a supportive and on occasions challenging environment which has enabled me to achieve considerable personal growth. I would recommend her to any executive who is at the top of their game but wants to get better.

I have had the most exceptional journey with Catherine I  over the past six months, a truly amazing individual and an outstanding coach. Whether you are looking or personal or professional development, or just some direction in life, Catherine will be on hand to support and encourage you along the way and ensure you reach your destination.

Catherine was my Executive Coach for about a year. It was, without doubt, one of the most satisfying career & personal development opportunities that I have ever have had invested in me. Trust me, there have been many courses of “HR Sheep dip” that I have been subjected to over the years, this was not one of them.
Catherine’s process was a breath of fresh air, exciting but very challenging – there was no hiding place! Great to work with, and she has an electric humour, but can grip reality.

So if you really want to make a change and make a difference to yourself, I could not recommend highly enough. Go on you owe it to yourself…

Catherine is wonderfully skilled at cutting through the mental clutter and identifying the core of any personal or professional challenge. It is at the source, that Catherine is so adept at cultivating significant and lasting personal change. She is someone that I trust implicitly and a coach that I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone or any organisation in search of excellence.

If you get the opportunity to work with Catherine as a coach or mentor, then my very strong recommendations is that you should grab this marvelous opportunity with both hands and don’t let go. I originally thought our time together might be just about being more effective, more productive and even feeling happier at work, but that’s just the icing on the cake, with Catherine you get so much more. For me. our time together was one of the most amazing journeys of self-discovery and personal growth that I have ever experienced.

Perceptive is not the word, Catherine is just plain spooky in her ability to understand people and almost appears to know what you are feeling and thinking before you even speak. She is just incredible and I don’t know she does it. One of the many things which I really valued is that Catherine doesn’t shy away from difficult or challenging conversations and looking back I wouldn’t want it any other way. She helped me see life and people with a new perspective.

Catherine is always full of energy and creates a safe environment for you to relax and drop those barriers so that you can fully benefit from what she has to offer. Always full of fun, her positivity is inspiring to make you want to get out there and make the most of your talents and enjoy life. I feel so grateful that I have had such a life-changing experience working with Catherine. She has helped me become a better person and I never imagined before we started work together that I would feel this way.

This is by far the hardest recommendation I have ever written, largely because it is hard to do this amazing woman justice in such few words. Catherine is a rare and extraordinary person who possesses the gifts of warmth, intellect, experience and charm. Having had the privilege to work with Catherine in her Coaching capacity, I was blown away at her skill and ability to skilfully manage the growth and transition of her clients. A rare find and a true friend!