Katharine St John-Brooks

Katharine moved into leadership development consultancy in 1996 after a 20-year career in central Government as a fast stream civil servant, followed by a two-year project with Sainsburys trialling and then launching their home shopping business. Katharine has worked with a wide range of clients including most Government departments and a variety of other organisations including Linklaters, the Payments Council, Trading Standards Institute, the Portman Group and Pearson Television. Since 2003, Katharine has increasingly focused on executive coaching which, together with Action Learning Set facilitation, constitutes most of her work. Given her familiarity with and background in the senior civil service, she has found herself in particular demand within Government departments and agencies but over the past eight years she has coached over 300 managers in a variety of fields. Katharine enjoys coaching at many levels and her current clients include Chief Executives, directors and ‘high potentials’. She has considerable experience as a Development and Assessment Centre assessor and particularly enjoys preparing people for these processes. Katharine holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour, an MA in Professional Development (Coaching), is an NLP practitioner and a Fellow of the Institute of Consultancy. She often speaks at conferences about coaching and published a book about internal coaching – so successful has this been, she has been asked to write a second edition.