“I am dedicated to developing current and future leaders who aspire to create sustainable, diverse and high-performing work cultures, stamp out toxic workplace behaviours and allow people to flourish at work”

Katie Gray

Katie is an executive coach, certified team coach, facilitator and trainer with a background working in leading international professional service firms.

She partners with her clients to help them become better leaders of themselves and others while navigating the many strategic and interpersonal opportunities and issues they face in their professional careers.

Katie is passionate about supporting professionals to create sustainable and enriching careers that they can enjoy for decades to come.

Prior to retraining as a coach, Katie was a banking and finance lawyer and partner of global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills LLP. She has lived and worked as a lawyer in Australia, London, and Singapore before settling in Auckland New Zealand, and founding her international professional development practice.

Katie’s mission is to develop current and future leaders that aspire to create sustainable, diverse, and high-performing workplaces, stamp out toxic workplace culture and allow people to flourish at work.

Katie’s approach to coaching is transformational. Her foundation training is in ontological coaching which is an extraordinarily powerful methodology for effecting change in individuals, teams, and organisations. Through her extended training as a health and wellness coach, she acquired expertise in behaviour change and motivational interviewing.

As a certified team coach and accredited Belbin Team Roles facilitator, Katie helps teams unlock their potential and become more high performing. She is also certified to use and debrief the Leadership Circle® 360 diagnostic tool which empowers leaders with clear-cut insights into their leadership strengths and development opportunities. It's a powerful data-driven model for leadership development that is trusted by the most influential companies in the world.

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Testimonials

"Every manager should experience Katie's magic and encourage their direct reports to do the same. It is a positive step to success. I am so glad Katie's coaching awakened me. She has given me a new way to manage myself and others and in doing so has set me on a path where I can now help others more effectively"

Supply Chain Manager, USA
"Coaching with Katie has been an extremely rewarding experience that has resulted in me adopting more helpful perspectives on certain issues and generally becoming much more productive in my work habits. The thing I loved most about working with Katie was that seh asks you questions that trigger you to come up with your own solutions. She is supportive, positive and uplifting and has a great way of making you feel comfortable to talk about anything. I would highly recommend Katie!"

Marketing Manager, New Zealand
"Katie has a great ability to ask the right questions and to challenge me to think about the situation differently and to gain clarity around my career vision. I can't recommend Katie enough if you are wanting to gain clarity around your career focus and to become more aware around having the right conversations in the workplace. Katie has a high level of integrity and it is clear that she genuinely cares about her clients."

Marketing Manager, Charity Sector, New Zealand
"Katie is an amazing coach with a high degree of emotional intelligence. Coaching with Katie helped me prepare for a high stakes meeting with my supervisors and through her coaching I was able to be open with them and clearly ask for what I wanted in terms of career progression. I was also able to stay calm and composed in what could have been an emotional conversation. I am now on track for a promotion!

Senior Lawyer, South-East Asia
"Katie has a unique ability to ask direct and intentional questions, engage in active listening and challening her clients to build solution-driven frameworks around key topics and ideals that are deeply embedded in their professional and personal make-up. Katie has been a positive force in my professional growth and is a trusted source of proactive and positive insights."

Product Manager, USA
"Katie's coaching methods brought about a powerful shift in perspective for me and I find that I now have more courage to put forth my views at work. The process itself has been very empowering as through coaching I reach my own conclusions and moments of self-realisation. Katie has been supportive, patient, encouraging and non-judgemental. I am immensely grateful to Katie for supporting me through this challenging time that ended up being an opportunity for me to evolve as a calmer, more courageous and confident leader."

Senior Lawyer, South-East Asia
“Katie is exceptionally personable, kind, patient and this enabled me to build trust almost immediately. Katie used a systematic approach to really narrow down my thoughts into clear and concise goals. After each session I felt lighter and I can honestly say I received so much value from our sessions together.”

Internal Coach at a Major International Bank, Singapore
“Katie is authentic, professional and approachable. Coaching has helped me discover and call upon self compassion and this has allowed me to participate in workplace interactions in a much more empowered way. If I hadn’t taken the step to engage a coach I fear I may have missed many opportunities to build better relationships at work. I felt that Katie really understood the environment I was working in and not long after we started coaching, I noticed that I started thinking about things differently and this ultimately changed the way I felt about myself and how I came across in the office.”

Senior Human Resources Professional, South-East Asia