Your natural talents and abilities have got you this far, but you know you can do even more.
How good are you at getting the best out of yourself?
How good are you at getting the best out of others counting on your leadership?
I provide a space for you to explore and define your dilemmas and barriers and then help you create a clear vision for your business, build better and deeper relationships and build your image and status.
Great ideas need great leaders to become reality.
The unique challenges of creative leadership—nurturing innovation while managing diverse teams, maintaining a cohesive vision amidst constant change, and fostering a vibrant culture—are often not addressed in traditional leadership training.
Leaders in creative industries like you often struggle with balancing creative freedom and commercial goals, managing team dynamics, and handling interpersonal conflicts. My coaching services address these challenges directly.
Using a neuroscience and psychology-based approach, I will help you develop a coach-like leadership style that enhances relationship intelligence, fosters a positive team culture, and reduces conflict.
Work with me if you want to focus more on the creative work you love and a leader more able to inspire, motivate and influence.
Who am I?
I’m Kate Southeby. With a career spanning two decades, I've had the joy of working with leaders at all levels of experience. My approach is vibrant and motivational, energising and insighful.
My coaching sessions are dynamic and intimate, bringing theoretical concepts to life and delivering real, tangible outcomes.
I love making coaching fun, engaging, and impactful, helping leaders reach their full potential. Find out more about me here.
1:1 Leadership Coaching
Overview
In our 1:1 coaching sessions, we'll explore and confront your challenges and dilemmas. I will provide a safe space for you to untangle and reframe your issues so they become clear and structured. My goal is to help you address these issues head-on, but without creating more drama.
I will help you create a plan of action for every individual and issue, that maintains and grows your status, by developing your ability to adapt your style, so you become more expert and intuitive at steering your people away from conflict and in-fighting and toward your vision.
What you can expect
You can look forward to a journey of growth and self-discovery. Each session is designed to build on the last, creating a comprehensive development path that covers everything from advanced decision-making and conflict resolution to fostering a positive team culture and engagement.
You’ll gain insights and tools that will help you understand and develop your leadership style and develop an ability to coach your team to better results and performance.
Feeling stuck?
I’ve never met a leader who was clear from the start exactly what they wanted, what the dilemma was, or why they felt the need to work with a coach.
They just knew something was off, things weren’t working as they wanted, their team was pulling in the same direction, and that change needed to happen. But what and how was unclear.
Contact me.
I offer I free initial consultation session lasting up to 1 hour. I will work with you to reframe and define your dilemma, providing a safe, confidential space for you to untangle and unwind.
Contact me via this form and I will get back to you within 24 hours (Monday to Friday). Any details you share with me will be strictly confidential.
I will help you become more confident in your own ability to inspire and influence your people to make your vision a reality.
You're already a natural leader and visionary, what you'll gain is the ability to communicate and manage your people more decisively, without fear of losing control, respect, or engagement. My approach is centred on the co-creation of a leadership style that is open and transparent, creating a culture where the decision-making process and conflict resolution is clear and consistent.
You will feel more comfomfotable delegating and fostering a collaborative atmosphere, leveraging the strengths and skills of your team.
Ultimately, you will be more confident to trust your team, driving innovation, and autonomy and freeing you to be doing what you love the most.
The results
FAQS
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Leaders facing fast-paced changes and uncertainties in their fields will find these sessions particularly beneficial. You’ll gain tailored strategies to manage disruption effectively, resolve conflicts, and maintain a calm and confident leadership presence. Kate’s coaching, underpinned by neuroscience and psychology, equips you with tools to enhance your relationship intelligence and foster a positive team environment.
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A standard coaching trajectory includes 6 to 8 sessions, with each session lasting 60 to 90 minutes. These are usually spread over three to four months, providing a structured approach to developing and implementing new leadership skills suited to dynamic and uncertain environments.
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Sessions start at £200 per hour, with total costs varying based on your specific needs and the length of the coaching engagement. We offer customised packages that combine multiple sessions with additional resources and support, tailored to help you navigate leadership challenges effectively.
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My coaching methodology is grounded in neuroscience and psychology, applying practical and reflective exercises that directly address the challenges of leading in disrupted industries. The focus is on the SCARF model—Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness—to improve how leaders interact and communicate with their teams during times of change.
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My coaching is designed to support leaders in any field experiencing rapid change and increasing uncertainty. Whether you’re looking to better manage team dynamics in a shifting landscape, enhance your decision-making capabilities, or simply need a space to reframe leadership dilemmas, my coaching offers an escape route from the drama and a path toward achieving your vision.
Testimonials and companies I’ve worked with
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“Kate is a great coach and has a way of tricking you into thinking you are just having a really natural conversation when actually she is doing really deep coaching with you. She is a joy to work with and so bright and insightful. She really helped me to make big shifts and I also learned a lot of tools and techniques from her to use for myself.”
Dr Helen B Johnson PCC EFT
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"Kate is brilliant at helping breakdown and figure out ways of working better - both for business as well as your own mental health and happiness. Kate helped me to digest and target areas of my professional and personal life that had been bugging me for years and gave me tools and techniques to improve my working methods and gives me space to think."
Elizabeth Webster, Director at Fraher & Findlay, RIBA Architect
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“Kate worked with me to identify my strengths and unlocked potential through a tailored series of consultation sessions. Her approach was supportive and authentic. I immediately trusted her. I was particularly impressed with the neuro-informed process she facilitates. She shared the research that underpins her practice, which helped me engage and understand - both the way our brains work but also, how we can overcome the learned pathways and make changes. It felt like opening a door for me.”
Sarah Engerer, Consultant in Board Advisory & Effectiveness
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“Kate inspires and builds confidence drawing out the skills that you know you have but may have forgotten! Her neuroscience knowledge helps you understand the ‘why’ and how we can rewire those neural pathways to power success and happiness! Highly recommend! .”
Kelly Bush, COO Lastman
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“Working with Kate has been a real eye opener for me. It feels like you’re given a key to unlock your brain of it’s limitations helping you to develop business ideas, personal goals and general well-being. Kate does this with enthusiasm and encouragement and always brings a sense of purpose to each session. I can’t recommend Kate highly enough as a coach. She is instantly likeable, warm, reassuring and determined. She has a wealth of experience and knowledge and I wouldn’t be where I am today without her guidance.”
Alex Alsop, Director Norrsken Windows
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"Kate has been one of our highest rated Uhubs Expert Coaches over the past 12 months, delivering a number of Public Masterclasses for our global learner community as well as client Sprints on the topics of Resilience, Communication and Leadership using her deep expertise in Neuroscience. Working with Kate is an absolute pleasure and I look forward to more collaborations in the future."
Matt Milligan, Co-founder @ UHUBS
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"I’ve worked with Kate personally and professionally and it was a brilliant experience! I found the tools she used for personal insight and understanding my strengths, skills and values incredibly useful - I’m much more self aware as a result. The one to one coaching sessions we’ve had have covered a range of topics from productivity to dealing with difficult situations and building confidence - they were always really energising and with lots of practical follow up activities to try. "
Victoria Wotton, Landscape Gardener
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"As a coach Kate has an expansive skill set that she utilises to support her Coachees to work through their challenges in ways that are smart, helpful and engaging. This is a differentiator that sets her apart from other coaches I’ve partnered with. At Publicis Groupe she’s been able to navigate the different leadership roles and the challenges that can come with working in the Media industry to support our leaders to work to their fullest potential. "
Philip Pitt, L&D Manager Publicis Groupe