Kathy Toogood
Style
I believe I bring a very commercial, practical and inspirational approach to my strengths- based leadership development and coaching interventions. I have an intuitive understanding of how to leverage human potential and achieve transformational change and I combine this with an enthusiastic and motivational style.
What I offer
With over 20 years’ experience as an independent coach, trainer and facilitator, my work focuses on helping leaders build strengths that will enable them to achieve high performance for themselves and through their teams. With a broad knowledge of leadership development theory and practice, I support clients by offering a varied range of creative developmental approaches which are always underpinned by a strengths focused philosophy in order that interventions improve individual effectiveness and capability and drive business results. I especially enjoy the challenge of helping people make sense of the complexities that surround them and find the energy and clarity to proceed to a successful outcome.
Background
My career began as a Personnel and Training Professional, acquiring 13 years’ senior retail management experience for leading companies including Marks and Spencer plc. I have subsequently spent over 20 years in a coaching, training and consulting role, working for a wide range of large organisations spanning finance, manufacturing, retail, utilities, service industries and the public and charitable sectors.
Client worked with include:
AbbVie; Accenture; Affinity Water; Barclays; Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust; Birmingham City Council; BAA; British Airways; BMI Healthcare; Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Charles Wells; City, University of London; Coastal West Sussex CCG; Cochrane; Countrywide; East of England Ambulance Service Trust; EBRD; Farecla; French Chamber of Commerce; Government Office East Midlands; Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (NHS); HSBC; Ignite Consulting; InHealth; Ivoclar Vivident; John Laing; Kelloggs; Kingston University; Legal and General; Leicester City Council; Lloyds Pharmacy; Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD); Middlesex University; Mill Hill School; Moet Hennessy; Mothercare UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR); National Health Service; Natural England; Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust; NEW Devon CCG; Optum; Orange; Pfizer; Plymouth City Council; Premier Inn; Regent’s University London; Screwfix Direct; Sir Richard Sutton Ltd; Spar; University of Bedfordshire; University of Brighton; University of Gloucestershire; University of Northampton; Veolia; The Wrigley Company/Mars.
Qualifications and Publications
- MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice
- BA (Hons) Business Studies
- NLP Master Practitioner
- Myers Briggs Practitioner Step 1 & 2
- BPS Level A and B; SHL OPQ qualified user
- Graduate of the Coaching Academy
- Robbins Institute – Mastery University and Leadership Academy
- Qualified to use ASSESS materials
- Realise2 Strengths Practitioner (individual and team)
- Strengths Deployment Inventory
- EQi Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory,
- Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) practitioner
- Strengthscope practitioner (individual and team)
- Qualified Time to Think Facilitator and Coach
- Qualified Heartmath Coach
- Coaching Supervision Certificate (Higher Professional Development) with Oxford Brookes University
- Research paper published in Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring – June 2012
- Co-author of The Strengths Focused Guide to Leadership, published in October 2014
Other roles and associate relationships
Kathy Toogood is also a Director of Strengths Focused Leadership Ltd, an organisation that she co-owns with Mike Roarty
Kathy also works as a coach, trainer and facilitator with the following organisations:
Oxford Group