TESTIMONIALS

Katie has challenged and supported me in a way that has dramatically improved the impact I am having.
Nigel Gosden, Director, Financial Services
As an Executive Coach Katie Rowland doesn’t attempt to change what has made you successful. In the first instance she enables you to understand it, to harness it; then to consider if it remains the most effective and productive way for you to operate.
Laurence Oxenbury, Director of International, PPL
I have made substantial progress and this has not only made me feel that I'm managing myself better but also is rubbing off on my impact on my management team and helping them improve their balance and performance.
Managing Director, FTSE 100 Financial Services company
I've been working with Katie for 4 years now. In those four years, my career progression has been superb - I've gone from being a Group Head to Trading Director of one of the UK's leading newspapers. Her coaching skills are second to none and I have recommended she work with all senior management across the operation.
Director, FTSE 200 Media company
Katie is mediocre, lacks insight and has generally poor ideas. (What else would you expect me to say about someone who's so wonderful that I'd like to keep her exclusively to myself?)
Chris Pinnington, Global Chief Operating Officer, FTSE 200 Media company
Katie is a bundle of energy and enthusiasm backed up by a huge amount of practical and highly effective techniques and I would strongly recommend her as a coach. My only regret is not meeting her sooner.
Chief Strategy Officer, Fintech
My coaching with Katie led to a transformation of both my outlook on my future possibilities and my approach to dealing with challenges, personal and professional. Her ability to observe, appreciate and understand my character resulted in the delivery of effective exercises, helping me to make meaningful progress week by week. Katie was always open, free of judgement, and someone who could be wholly trusted with the information I shared with her; she was also just a lovely person to speak to and work with. Thanks to Katie, I can move forward now with a sense of clarity and purpose, a number of tools and techniques to help me respond positively to challenges, and that all-important spring in my step that I was previously lacking.
Head of Department
I worked with Katie over a year where my part of the global consulting firm for which I worked was facing significant operating environment challenges. Simultaneously, I was working to establish a new geographic presence for the firm in another part of the continent. Each of Katie’s sessions was a very helpful mix of provoking questions, shared self reflection, and use of frameworks to provide structure and methods to use in practice. Most importantly, Katie truly operated as my coach; she was wholly focused on understanding me, how my past had shaped my present, and what aspects of my job gave me energy or required more intentional investment for me to improve. She also helped me work through a set of “in the moment” challenges and opportunities and think through the implications of different potential outcomes. I would not be where I am today in terms of self awareness and a focus on where and how to improve without her guidance and support.
Parter
The Rowland & Associates Approach

With all our clients we adopt a client-centric, holistic approach whilst responding to the professional development needs identified by the individual or the organisation. We begin 1:1 Executive Coaching assignments by conducting a complimentary chemistry session to assess the ‘fit’ between coach and client. For us, it is essential that clients work with a coach with whom they feel a strong fit. We may offer clients a chemistry session with more than one coach from the team to ensure we achieve this. It is also important to us that the chemistry session is a valuable investment of a client’s time whether it becomes the start of a coaching programme or is a stand-alone session.

At the end of the chemistry session the coach will outline options for the coaching programme and make recommendations of frequency and format of sessions based on what’s been explored during the chemistry session. Typically clients choose to commence an initial 6-month coaching programme immediately following the chemistry session.

To maintain complete freedom and flexibility for each client, our policy is to invoice on a session by session basis (unless requested to do differently by an organisation). We believe this respects the individual needs of each client and allows us to tailor each coaching programme to meet the unique development objectives and preferences for engagement and support.

Our coaching programmes can include 360 feedback, gathered via phone interviews, email questionnaires, face to face meetings or a variety of psychometric profiling tools. These may be initiated by an individual client or requested by an organisation; either way feedback is gathered in discussion with and with agreement from the client.

During each session we review actions taken and progress made against the client’s coaching outcomes. At the end of the 6-month initial programme we have an explicit conversation or more formal review process, eg involving a 3-way conversation with the client’s line manager, to assess progress made against objectives. We may complete the coaching at this stage or, more typically, explore what further coaching would be beneficial.


One session of coaching can make a difference, and an initial 6-month programme can make a significant impact. Typically clients work with a coach for a 12-month period, where true and sustained growth can be achieved. A number of clients value the benefit of having a ‘coach for life’, where the relationship provides a consistent, highly personalised yet objective support regardless of changes to job role, organisation or personal circumstance.

Who do we work with?

We work with all types of organisation from large FTSE or NASDAQ listed corporations to AIM listed or privately owned businesses and SMEs. We also work with sole traders and entrepreneurs.

We work most effectively with companies that have:

  • A commitment to the value of investing in their people in a meaningful way
  • People and staff who want to develop themselves, are open to working in partnership with a coach and understand the value this unique relationship the provides
  • An understanding that sustainable benefits and meaningful growth takes time and are willing to invest in 6-12 month Executive Coaching programmes (or longer)
  • An attitude of wanting to work in partnership with us

Next steps:

If you would like to find out more about Executive Coaching, please contact us to arrange an initial conversation. We also invite you to look at the rest of our website and be inspired by the testimonials written by clients who’ve worked with us over the years. Enjoy!!
Rowland and Associates