KATE EVANS . LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Leadership that's grounded, human, and built to last
Online and in-person coaching, workshops and facilitation for teams and organisations
Drawing on the same philosophy behind Eudaimonia, that people do their best work when they're grounded, supported and genuinely understood, Kate works with leaders and teams to build clarity, resilience and stronger ways of working. 1:1 coaching, team workshops and bespoke facilitation, delivered virtually or in person across Staffordshire and the UK.
Supporting Your People from the Inside Out:
Because effective leadership requires both professional skills and personal well-being.
Because effective leadership needs both professional skills and personal wellbeing.
The leaders who do this best understand frameworks and competencies, and they also understand themselves, communicate with honesty and know how to stay grounded under pressure.
Most leadership development stops at the professional skills. Kate goes further, combining proven coaching methods with a genuine understanding of what helps people function well under real pressure, so the leaders you develop are capable, resilient and ready for whatever comes their way.
Based in Staffordshire, delivering leadership programmes UK-wide and internationally online.
Ready to develop leaders who can handle what modern work actually throws at them?
A more complete approach to leadership development
Most leadership training focuses on strategy, decision-making and performance. These matter, and they're only half the picture. The leaders who hold up best under real pressure also understand themselves, communicate honestly, and know how to manage stress before it becomes burnout, both their own and their team's.
That's the approach behind every programme Kate delivers: strategic and practical leadership skills, built alongside emotional intelligence, resilience and the kind of communication that builds genuine trust.
Sound like the kind of leadership development your organisation needs?
1:1 leadership coaching
One-to-one coaching for leaders and managers who want to lead with more clarity and less strain. Sessions cover the practical side of leadership, like decision-making, performance, difficult conversations and delegation, alongside the personal side that's often left out: self-awareness, resilience under pressure and communication that builds genuine trust.
Delivered virtually, worldwide. Suitable for emerging managers through to senior leaders.
Team Workshops
Practical sessions designed to strengthen how a team works together. Workshops focus on real issues, like communication that breaks down under pressure, unclear accountability, and friction between people who see things differently, and give teams tools they'll actually use once they're back at their desks.
Delivered virtually or in person, tailored to your team's size, with bespoke or ready-designed content built around the specific challenges you're facing.
facilitation
Sometimes a business needs a skilled, neutral facilitator: for a strategy day, a difficult conversation between teams, or a session that needs structure and an outside perspective to move forward.
Kate brings the same grounded, human approach to facilitation as she does to coaching, creating a space where people feel comfortable enough to be honest.
Available for one-off sessions or ongoing work, in person across Staffordshire and the West Midlands, or virtually further afield.
How Kate works
Every programme follows three connected stages, so leaders grow as individuals, as part of their team and as part of the wider
organisation.
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Exploring self: self-awareness, strengths and each leader's personal style.
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Developing others: communication, trust and bringing out the best in a team.
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Empowering the organisation: aligning leaders and teams around shared goals and culture.
How Kate works: self, others, organisation
Proven tools
Workshops draw on trusted models, including:
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Insights Discovery, with workshops on Introduction to Insights, Team Effectiveness, Leadership Effectiveness and Sales Effectiveness, all built around the four colour energies that show up in our personalities.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, with practical work on trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability and results.
Support beyond the workshop
Learning sticks when it's put into practice, so Kate also offers:
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On-the-ground sessions, where she observes your team in action and gives real-time feedback.
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Leadership shadowing, where she shadows leaders through their day, then shares tailored feedback on strengths, blind spots and opportunities to grow.
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Ongoing 1:1 coaching, to help leaders confidently apply what they've learned.
Who Kate works with
Perfect for organisations who want more than surface-level engagement
Kate works especially well with wellbeing businesses building strong, supportive teams, healthcare teams managing high pressure and emotional demand, charities and non-profits balancing purpose with burnout risk, growing businesses building culture as they scale, and education and professional services teams in demanding environments.
Ready for a more human approach to leadership and employee support?
Investment & Process
Every engagement starts with a free discovery call: thirty to sixty minutes to understand your organisation's needs and explore how the right programme could work for your team.
From there, support is shaped around what you actually need. Some organisations want a single workshop or session. Others prefer ongoing support, like regular team sessions or quarterly leadership development built into the year. Others need a mix of 1:1 coaching, team work and facilitation running alongside each other. Every programme is designed around your organisation's needs, budget and culture
Ready to discuss what your organisation needs?
Kate's Background:
Kate brings over fifteen years of corporate leadership experience to every programme she delivers. She's an ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and Trainer, an NLP Master Practitioner and an accredited Insights Discovery facilitator, with a background spanning business strategy, performance management and organisational change, including work with international and remote teams.
Alongside that corporate grounding, Kate is trained in trauma-informed facilitation and mental health awareness, and understands from real experience what helps people stay resilient and think clearly under sustained pressure. It means leaders get rigorous, credible development that also takes the whole person seriously.
What Organisations Say
I recently arranged people management training for our leadership team with Kate at The Coaching Retreat. From the outset, Kate was fantastic to work with. After I initially reached out, we discussed our specific needs as a company, and Kate took the time to step us through her thoughts, making sure to include us in the planning process all the way through to finalising and arranging the training course. Kate provided a detailed day schedule and offered her assistance and support at both of our sites. She was extremely well-prepared, arriving the night before to set up the venues and being ready early in the morning. The sessions were highly interactive, and Kate made sure that everyone felt included. We were very pleased with the outcome and will definitely approach Kate for additional training in the future.
Emma
Operations
The Shaw Trust
Birmingham
"My 1:1 sessions with Kate gave me space to properly reflect and reconnect with why I lead the way I do. When she ran a workshop for our wider team, it was powerful and emotional in parts, but in the best way; she helped the group open up and reconnect with the reasons behind what we do. It wasn't just professional development, for any of us, it was personal too."
Helen Perkins
CUE Media
Kate brought a rare mix of genuine corporate understanding and deep, human-centred coaching to our leadership team. The 1:1 sessions gave our managers far more clarity and confidence, and the leadership day she ran for the wider team was the most honest, useful session we've had as a group. Watching our people grow through it reminded me what real leadership looks like: authentic, thoughtful, and strong"
Kate is a fantastic Coach and Leader who inspires others with the confidence to move out of their comfort zones and try new things and promotes self-reflection and experience as the best way to learn. Kate has an inspiring story, and passing that forward to encourage others is typical of her open approach to others and their development. I had a job before I met Kate, and under her leadership, I began to build a career.
Mohammed Mahmood - Uk
Attended Kate's course over the weekend. Kate made everyone feel welcome and relaxed and set out the agenda for the day. Was well planned out. Kate is highly professional and knows and understand her subject matter really well. Thoroughly enjoyed the course and would highly recommend.
