Catherine Midgley

Catherine Midgley

Catherine is an engaging coach and workshop leader, designing and using creative approaches to facilitate individuals and groups to work more thoughtfully and effecively to achieve higher levels of performance.  She specialises in developing clients in a practical and focused way, identifying and tackling the issues that get in the way of optimal performance.  Her working philosophy is to identify and develop the strengths of the individual and to use those strengths to develop the areas of weakness that hold people back.

Catherine’s expertise is in helping build clients’ awareness, self-belief and confidence that they can develop existing and new skills essential to effective performance; with the self-belief in place, the required behaviours are learned more easily.  Catherine draws on a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience to create a positive learning experience for clients.

Catherine is insightful, caring, challenging, enthusiastic and focused on achieving both practical and inspirational changes in individuals that have a profound and lasting impact.

Operational Experience

  • 10 years in retailing in buying and product management roles, managing product ranges and teams responsible for multi million pounds of sales and profits.
  • 16 years in consultancy, working in management training, leadership development and coaching.
  • Extensive coaching and consultancy experience in public and private sector organisations, including the NHS, retailing, corporate law, logistics, energy and pharmaceutical industries.

Specialisms

  • Coaching senior managers and directors to develop their strengths and tackle their weaknesses
  • Research, design and facilitation of development interventions to promote performance improvement
  • Leadership
  • Team development
  • Career transition and other change issues
  • Developing resilience and controlling stress
  • Productivity
  • Influencing and relationship building
  • Navigating organisational politics and networking.

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Management Studies and French
  • CoachU (personal coaching) and Corporate CoachU (business coaching)
  • TA101
  • MBTI Step I and II
  • Member of the Association for Coaching
  • Member of the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology
  • Member of the International Positive Psychology Association.

Working for TLC allows me to work alongside dedicated and passionate people who care deeply about developing the potential of individuals and teams. TLC is managed with utter professionalism and a real passion for achieving excellent standards with clients.
Clients are always fascinating and multi-faceted individuals who respond to different approaches, but all benefit from empathic understanding and a practical perspective, which makes a difference to how they think, feel and behave in the workplace.