About Cath
Cath works with leadership teams to improve collaboration, trust and organisational effectiveness. She specialises in systems coaching, team dynamics and helping organisations navigate complexity and change.
Her work helps teams identify and shift unhelpful patterns, strengthen communication and improve collective performance. Cath supports leaders and teams to think systemically about behaviour, relationships and organisational culture rather than focusing solely on individuals.
She has extensive experience facilitating team development interventions and helping organisations strengthen alignment, accountability and collective leadership capability.
Coaching style
Cath's coaching style is thoughtful, systemic and insight-led. She helps teams surface patterns, assumptions and behaviours that may be limiting effectiveness, while supporting more constructive and collaborative ways of working.
Clients value her ability to combine emotional intelligence with practical organisational insight.
Career history
- Consultant Psychologist in Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Relationship counsellor
- Lecturer and Researcher · Heriot-Watt University
Accreditation
PCC (Professional Certified Coach), International Coaching Federation · Chartered Psychologist (BPS)
What ICF accreditation meansAreas of expertise
- Team coaching
- Organisational development
- Systems coaching
- Leadership team dynamics
- Collaboration and trust
- Organisational culture
- Communication and alignment
- Behavioural change
Typical coaching themes
- Team effectiveness
- Collaboration and trust
- Organisational culture
- Systems thinking
- Communication patterns
- Leadership alignment
- Managing complexity
- Collective accountability
Qualifications & training
- Certificate of Professional Development in Coaching · University of Strathclyde
- Certificate in Executive Coaching · Quorum Occupational Psychologists
- Accredited Coach · Ros Taylor Group
- Registered Occupational Psychologist · Health Professions Council
- BPS Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing Levels A and B
- Founder member of the BPS Coaching and Special Interest Group
- Postgraduate Diploma in Careers Guidance · Napier University
- BA (Hons) Psychology · University of Manchester
Most engagements with Cath begin with a 30-minute call.
With Peter or Marie, depending on whether the brief sits closer to training or coaching. The named coach is matched to the engagement at scoping.