Cath Harries

Profile: Cath is a coach with over 20 years’ experience working collaboratively with her clients, improving organisations through developing the personal skills and confidence of their people. She specialises in coaching and mentoring, leadership development and building self awareness and positive impact. She works with individuals and groups in workshops, one to one coaching relationships and action learning sets.

Coaching Style: Cath’s clients find her warm, open, pragmatic approach generates positive relationships and powerful learning. Her style allows for robust conversations within a climate of deep trust, honest feedback and tangible improvements for those who work with her.

Career History/Background: Cath joined Price Waterhouse (PW) in Cardiff in 1990, where she trained and qualified as a chartered accountant (ICAEW – ACA 1993). She was recommended for the prestigious PW Manager International Programme – a two-year secondment to PW Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 1998, Cath joined the PwC EMEA practice in London, as a full-time senior development consultant. She left PwC in 2004 to set up her own development business and now works across the three sectors, with blue chip companies, high profile charities, universities and multi-national banks. Her clients include PwC, Cancer Research UK, Barclays, ICAEW, The Prince’s Trust, War Child, CISCO and NATO. Her early career afforded her a strong business and commercial awareness that helps her understand her clients’ work challenges and adds depth and clarity to her coaching approach.

Examples of Recent Executive Coaching Assignments: Cath coaches senior leaders at a global professional services firm on a transition to partnership programme. She also coaches senior executives at top UK charities and emerging leaders in the finance, digital and engineering sectors. The coaching partnership supports them to develop their personal skills and deliver on both their personal goals and the organisation’s strategy.

Cath has worked with senior management within the NHS (senior nursing consultants at Teenage Cancer Care), councils and universities, coaching using 360-degree feedback and psychometric tools like MBTI. She recently coached on a twelve-month leadership programme for Future Leaders in a multi-national corporation specialising in design technologies. She coached five senior executives during this process, using MBTI, DiSC 363 for Leaders and other techniques to build self-awareness and bring about positive behavioural change. She also specialises in action learning set facilitation, involving peer group coaching, working with real issues in real time.

Qualifications & Training
Somatic Coaching ‘Self as instrument’ certification (EAConsult) – June 2019
CISCO Strengths Coaching certification (The Marcus Buckingham Company) – October 2017
International Coaching Federation (ICF PCC) coaching accreditation (August 2016)
ITS Certified Coach, August 2016 (“Coaching – The Next Generation” with Ian McDermott, ITS)
Action Learning Set Facilitator Training certification – October 2012
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step I practitioner (May 2008) and Step II (Sept 2013)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner and High-Performance Coaching accreditation – Jan 2003
ICAEW Chartered Accountant – qualified in 1993

Coaching in Cath’s own words: I believe in building relationships that both empower individuals and allow for honest, sometimes crunchy, conversations carried out in a climate of openness and trust. My focus is helping people learn, fulfil their potential and be the best they can be.