Katie Foulkes OLY
Individual and Team Coaching.
Katie is a university accredited executive coach with extensive experience coaching both individuals and teams across public, private, health, sport and education and sectors globally.
Katie’s approach is collaborative, systemic and solution focused. She utilises an extensive toolkit of evidence-based instruments and frameworks and leverages from strength-based approaches, systems thinking, positive psychology and performance psychology to help others uncover and refine solutions, with the aim of enhancing both performance and well-being.
By building high trust relationships, clients are supported to explore goals and opportunities for growth as well as innovative ways to positively impact their surrounding systems and stakeholders.
Individuals.
Individuals operating in fields that require elite performance output face pressures and challenges that require a specific toolset to consistently excel. Katie’s one-on-one approach focuses on understanding the individual’s goal or challenge and conducting a “deep dive” into the situation. Adopting a holistic approach over multiple coaching sessions, Katie partners with her clients, utilising proven strategies to accelerate the individual to their goal and beyond.
Examples of individual goals/challenges include:
Executive level appointment
Leading high performing teams
Navigating career transitions
Peak performance eg. medical professionals - performance during surgery
Olympic selection/Olympic gold medal
Identifying and tackling barriers to individual performance
Enhancing innovation and learning
Resilience at individual, team and organisational level
Navigating environmental challenges beyond our control, eg. COVID19.
Teams.
Throughout her Olympic career Katie earned a reputation for her strong leadership and innate ability to bring individuals together to perform at exceptional levels. Katie believed that team success came down to what she called “team synergy”. For her rowing team to achieve its goals, she believed it was not simply about individuals performing at their best “together”. Instead, it was about combinations of adjusting, enhancing and complementing the team’s dynamics to consistently sustain peak performance.
Katie shares this skillset and understanding of “team synergy” to organisations across the world. Her high-performance team coaching focuses on building collective leadership and performance using a range of evidence-based practices that are tailored to the unique attributes of the team or organisation.
Examples of team goals/challenges include:
Moving beyond a team of high performing individuals to “team synergy”. What can be achieved together that can’t be achieved individually?
Creating a coaching culture and enabling the team to coach itself
Performance of cross-functional/project teams
Identifying and tackling barriers to team performance
Enhancing innovation and learning
Enhancing resilience and performance of teams and organisations
Building connections, trust and psychological safety
Enhancing the impact of senior leadership teams
