About

Hi I’m Kate. I’ve been working in the field of personal and organisational change in the UK and overseas for over 30 years.

Neon was born from a vision I had of me spray-painting the world with colour. I founded the company in 2013 with a desire to change how we live, lead and work through coaching and consulting.

My fascination with how people and systems tick, goes all the way back to my school days when I volunteered at a local psychiatric hospital. It continued into my early career when I worked with the homeless and as a Probation Officer in London.

After that I moved into the business world and joined PA Consulting Group where I led programmes of change for ten years and learned more about how to influence systems and organisational culture.

I love my work and making a positive difference to people’s lives. I believe passionately that we need more colour and humanity in the world.

Qualifications

Professionally Certified Integral Development Coach
Licensed Enneagram Practitioner
Graduate of the Centre for Systemic Constellations and the Bert Hellinger Institute, The Netherlands
Certified Visual Medicine™ practitioner
MA (Oxon) Modern Languages

Who I work with

I work with leaders of purpose-led organisations who want to create more human cultures where more people can do their best work. My clients tend to be ambitious leaders who are open-minded and progressive in their thinking.

I also work with people in mid-life seeking new beginnings at work or at home. There is nothing better than seeing a client enjoying their new job, new adventure or new chapter in life.

Creativity

Creativity is a huge part of my life. I write prose and poetry; I am a singer/songwriter and I paint. Creativity is not just a passion, it’s a practice I bring into my coaching work. For example, I often invite my clients to take up creative practices or I offer paintings and poems as a means of inspiring personal development.

Have a read of this poem and see what it sparks in you

For a New Beginning

by John O’Donahue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure,
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.