Unlock wellbeing + impact by design.

Looking to have a sustainable positive impact without sacrificing wellbeing or happiness?

Want to cut through the noise, join the dots, and tap into real-world solutions with a compassionate yet constructively challenging guide?

You’re in the right place. Welcome.

I’m Katie Adams. I help Leaders and Teams to intentionally design work and life to be more meaningful, fun, and sustainable so you can avoid burnout, grow your mission, and enjoy the journey.

I’ll guide you to understand your unique wellbeing blueprint and shape how you live, work, and think so these work for you rather than compromise you and your potential.

Ultimately, I’ll help you lighten your load, sidestep burnout, and nurture a Sustainable Self™.

If you are an organisation committed to supporting your people, I can help you enhance and elevate your development suite, and also provide tailored strategic support to help you create a Wellbeing Positive™ workplace.

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Info, insights, and ideas to help you prevent burnout, stay the course on your mission, and enjoy the journey.

Ways we can work together…

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    Work/Life Design

    I provide fresh and impactful group programmes and experiences that empower and enable you to intentionally shape your relationship with work, life, and self so you can enhance your experience, address barriers to wellbeing and impact, and prevent burnout.

    For example, my Vision Board Masterclass helps participants creatively connect with and clarify their vision for the year ahead, focus on what matters when it comes to work, rest, and play, and add a powerful tool to their toolkit to support them to achieve their goals.

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    Burnout Coaching

    Grounded in my Sustainable Self™ Framework and the latest burnout research, I provide a discreet, tailored 1:1 coaching programme that supports you to recharge and recover from burnout so you can get back to having a positive impact.

    You will also be guided to review and recalibrate your life and work so these areas contribute to your wellbeing and happiness rather than compromise them, and you can prevent burnout from recurring.

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    Wellbeing Positive™ Strategy + Leadership

    Bespoke facilitation and strategic support to engage teams, review where you are, and co-create a Wellbeing Positive™ organisation, and embed wellbeing as a strategic driver for productivity, growth, and impact.

    I also provide Leadership Coaching to help Leaders navigate the challenges of human-centred people management and leading organisational change.

Human Centred Whole-Life Leadership for an uncertain world.

Together we can tackle…

A blended toolkit.

Grounded in the latest insights on human flourishing and performance, I blend Work/Life Design, Coaching, and Consulting toolkits to help you move forward from where you are to where you want to be.

I create fresh, fun, impactful development support and experiences that bridge the gap between insight and application, and catalyse meaningful sustainable action.

I leave my clients with a powerful but practical toolkit they can draw on and use again and again.

LETS GET YOU THERE

Professional and Client Experience

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  • "Katie is an exceptional coach. I recommend her most highly for her ability to combine her deep professional expertise, rich insights, and human touch to guide and support others in a down-to-earth actionable way."

    - Liza Horan, Mindstream -

  • "A truly transformative experience. Katie expertly guided us, creating a space that was both inspiring and empowering."

    - Marie-Claire Donnelly, Dream Magic Superfoods -

  • "Katie helped me gain exactly what I had hoped at the outset: clarity and confidence. She helped me gain a deeper understanding of my values and what is important to me. I now feel in complete control with the knowledge and tools to make decisions personally and professionally. I wouldn't have been able to get here without Katie."

    - Llinos Appleford, Vegware -

  • "Queen of Vision Boards!"

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  • "Katie’s style was professional and warm and I felt comfortable talking openly with her. She asked good questions and expertly guided and supported me to achieve my goals. She also helped me identify tools that I could employ to increase my self-confidence."

    - Renata Beckford, Lloyds Banking Group -

  • "For the last three years Katie has run a Vision Boarding workshop for the participants on our Toolbox Leadership Programme. Great fun and a really powerful way to formulate, viusualise and stay connected to your goals."

    - Simon Chatterton, National Centre for Arts in Public Space -

  • "I particularly liked that the session required thoughts but then was practical in creating an output that visualises what I want to achieve this year. Katie's guidance was well paced and well considered."

    - Gemma Stuart, Gut Wealth -

  • "5 Stars! The Vision Boarding Session was AMAZING!"

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  • "A truly inspiring experience. Katie set the perfect tone for fun filled mornings of creativity and motivation. Her support, guidance and encouragement created safe, no-judgement spaces for everyone to explore their own vision for their life. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the masterclass to anyone looking for a meaningful but fun team building or learning event."

    - Lynn Houmdi, The Challenges Group -

Action-focused solutions for real world problems.

Spotlight: Shaping the future.

A Vision Board Masterclass brings your team, clients, or network together for a fresh, fun, and creative experience that stretches their imagination to explore what is possible, energises, and catalyses positive action to support greater wellbeing and impact.

Participants leave with their own unique Vision Board and a new power tool backed by neuroscience that can support them to achieve their goals.

In a hybrid and increasingly polarised and disconnected world, it also offers the opportunity for social connection, fosters greater understanding of the person beyond the job title, and strengthens relationships.

Why this kind of support…

 

I have spent two decades helping individuals, leaders, and organisations to review, rethink, and redesign how they do and deliver for those they serve.

After “hitting the wall,” as I call it, my journey to rejuvenate my wellbeing and create a “sustainable Katie” highlighted to me:

  • The research is clear on what we need to flourish and perform at our best.

  • We all carry work, life, and mental loads. Not addressing the full load is limiting us.

  • Ad hoc classes, mindfulness apps, and the health system only go so far and are simply pieces of a bigger puzzle.

  • Many of the concepts and tools I used in my work to support teams and organisations could also help individuals manage their life and loads, and enhance their wellbeing.

By intentionally taking a whole person, whole life approach to wellbeing and using design tools and principles, we can change the game and put all the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that works for both individuals, AND the organisations they work for.

You don’t need to figure this out alone.

Whether it’s for you, your organisation, or your clients, let’s discuss getting you from where you are to where you want to be.

LET’S CHAT

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