Hello, I’m Katie.
Like you, I care about our world. I’d like to make it a better place.
For as long as I can remember I’ve felt a pull to be of service and make a difference.
I’ve always been interested in people, their experiences, and coming together to improve things.
However, my positive purpose hasn’t always led to positive experiences for me.
I learned firsthand that impact is rarely easy, and found out about the purpose paradox the painful way.
Shaping our world
Working in-house for the BMA, NHS, and WHO, and within Deloitte’s Public Sector Consulting Practice, I spent over a decade successfully designing and driving service improvement and organisational change.
My work spanned Health and Social Care, Government, Higher Education and Third Sector organisations. I learned about the unique challenges of driving social impact-focused change, managing increased demand with limited resources, and the tensions of operational and strategic leadership.
The more I understood the scale of the problems, the more I had a positive impact, and the more I gave of myself in the process.
Professional and Client Experience
Shaping my world
With long hours firefighting, coping with chronic tonsilitis and psoriasis (my warning signs!), and juggling parenthood, eventually, I hit the wall.
Exhausted, and unable to think straight with dense brain fog, I was forced to accept I wasn’t in a healthy or happy place.
I took a break to figure out how to nurture a more sustainable me.
Initially, I felt lost, ashamed, and like a failure. But by learning from experts, working with a Coach, and engaging with a supportive network, I joined the dots between wellbeing, experience, and performance, and identified the ingredients for my wellbeing.
I realised that I needed to live and lead in way that aligned with who I am and what makes me tick, so I became my own life designer.
I shaped my world to work for my wellbeing rather than compromise it. Gradually, feeling more clear, grounded, and energised I was able to start having a positive impact again.
“Only by nurturing a sustainable self, and helping those around us do the same, can we achieve sustainable success.”
- Katie Adams -
Helping shape your world
I am now on a mission to help leaders like you avoid that wall, enhance your wellbeing, and maximise your impact.
Blending Life Design, Coaching, and the latest thinking on human experience and performance, I work with individuals and organisations to take a wellbeing-led, whole person, whole life, approach to living and working well.
I hold a postgraduate MSc in Health Leadership & Management, an International Coaching Federation (ICF)-accredited: Diploma in Transformational Coaching, Certificate in Positive Psychology, & Certificate in Group Coaching; and am a member of the ICF.
Working with me my clients get more than just an Executive Wellbeing Coach they get a Coach, Consultant and Cheerleader in one. One who brings their whole self and two decades of experience to the table.
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