Hello, I’m Katie.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a pull to be of service and make a difference.
I’ve always been interested in people, their experiences, and coming together to improve things.
However, this hasn’t always led to positive experiences for me. I learned firsthand that leading people and having a positive impact is rarely easy, and I found out about the purpose paradox the painful way.
Shaping our world
Working in-house for the BMA, NHS, and WHO, and within Deloitte’s Consulting Practice, I spent over a decade successfully designing and driving service improvement and organisational change.
Working across the public, private and third sectors, I learned about the unique challenges of leading and managing people, driving change, and the tensions of operational and strategic leadership.
The more I understood the complexity and scale of the challenges, the more I gave of myself.
Professional and Client Experience
Shaping my world
With long hours firefighting, coping with chronic tonsilitis and psoriasis (my warning signs!), and juggling parenthood, eventually, I hit the wall.
Exhausted, and unable to think straight with dense brain fog, I was forced to accept I wasn’t in a healthy or happy place.
I took a break to figure out how to nurture a more sustainable me.
Initially, I felt lost, ashamed, and like a failure. But by learning from experts, working with a Coach, and engaging with a supportive network, I realised it wasn’t just me who was struggling. I was able to join the dots between wellbeing, experience, and performance, and identify my key ingredients for wellbeing.
I learned aligning how I live and work with who I am and what makes me tick was vital. So, I became my own work/life designer.
I shaped my world to work for my wellbeing rather than compromise it, to enable me to have a positive impact professionally, and to enjoy the journey again.
“Only by nurturing a sustainable self, and helping those around us do the same, can we achieve sustainable success.”
- Katie Adams -
Helping shape your world
I am now on a mission to help others avoid that wall, enhance their wellbeing and unlock their potential.
Blending Work/Life Design, Coaching, and the latest thinking on human experience and performance, I work with individuals and organisations to take a wellbeing-informed, whole person whole life, approach, to living and working well.
I hold a postgraduate MSc in Health Leadership & Management, an International Coaching Federation (ICF)-accredited: Diploma in Transformational Coaching, Certificate in Positive Psychology, & Certificate in Group Coaching; and am a member of the ICF.
Working with me my clients get more than a Leadership and Wellbeing Coach they get a Coach, Consultant and Cheerleader in one. One who brings their whole self and two decades of experience to the table and quickly becomes a trusted partner.
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