"I have been fortunate enough to have had Catherine as my business coach for the past 12 months. I can honestly say that my mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well being is exponentially better than it has ever been before. Thanks to Catherine, my personal life is so much richer and I am really starting to walk fully into my potential in terms of my work and business life. Thanks to Catherine's incredible way of helping me I am so much closer to accomplishing what I was destined to do. I wholeheartedly recommend this process to anyone who is serious about achieving extraordinary results in the workplace as well as those who wish to have a deeper, richer, fuller life experience in general. A totally life changing experience!"
Daren – business coaching client
"At a time in my life when I felt stuck and demoralised, coaching helped to me to clarify the direction forward; challenged outdated thinking and re-ignited my passion and confidence. It is a deeply empowering process. I would recommend it to anyone grappling with the need for change".
Verity – personal development coaching client
"I chose Catherine as a coach as she is a CA and she would understand the challenges in my profession. Working with her has made a substantial and positive difference in my professional and personal life. Thanks to her direction, I've hit professional and personal goals that once seemed out of reach. Her expertise with simple yet powerful questions always brings clarity and focus to my challenges. For the first time in six years, I took a real one week vacation with no laptop. Yes, no work and my team didn't call me more than twice. The best part of this entire experience is how I feel about me. I am delighted with living my own dream and energized by how I feel inside of me.
Catherine is passionate for her work. She listens and pays attention to who you are as an individual and caters her coaching to fit your specific needs. Her skills in coaching helped keep me on track and focus on my goals. She was not afraid to give an honest opinion. She enabled me to find a way to balance my personal life with my hectic work schedule. Her high level of professionalism, commitment to the coaching process and to me as the client makes it a pleasure to refer others to her. Thank you, Catherine for being both an outstanding and insightful coach."
Prakash – executive coaching client
"Catherine has structured and implemented a business management system drawing from her in depth accounting, financial management and coaching knowledge without which my business would not have survived these past 4 years. She integrates an understanding of me and how I function and supports me in making business management decisions against this background. She has been and will continue to be an integral and invaluable part of my business."
Graham – Financial IQ client
"I started coaching in January 2010 - at a very difficult time at work. I ended 2009 on a sour note and was not looking forward to the year ahead. The coaching process enabled me to focus on myself, and what I wanted to achieve at work and at home. I set clear goals for myself - which forced me to rise above the dramas. By May/June, I had taken probably the most daring decision about my life - which has greatly revitalised me. I found coaching to be warm, eye-opening, reflective and very rewarding - though difficult at times. I picked up skills which I will use as long as I live and work. Catherine made me see I have a lot to offer professionally and personally - I thank her immensely for that."
Vuyiswa – executive coaching client
"My decision to take part in life coaching came at a very turbulent time both personally and professionally. The experience was really rewarding in enabling a reconnection with aspects of myself, talents that had lain dormant for many years and providing tools in dealing with current and future life challenges. Catherine is a great coach and facilitated the process in an intuitive, professional manner. Always the good listener, she has an ability to see the essence of issues and problems, and provide the guidance to self discovery. This experience will exceed expectations and change one's perception about oneself and how one lives life – coaching is that profound!
Sean – personal development coaching client
"When I decided to undertake this venture, I was not fully certain of where it would lead me. However under Catherine's guidance I undertook a journey of experiences which expanded my capacity to broaden my thinking and view directives from a different and broader perspective. I found Catherine to be directed and focused on the objectives yet flexible enough for me to grow through latitude. I can most certainly recommend Catherine for her dedication, commitment and approachable style to me as the client."
Andre – business coaching client
"I was quite apprehensive and somewhat sceptical when coaching was first suggested to me as part of my workplace development programme. My experience though, was a positive one. The coaching process allowed me the space to formulate strategies and implement them within a monitored framework. Catherine was able to help me distill a clear set of goals and put in place a set of measures to monitor my progress on these goals. I found that her pragmatism suited me very well. I found her approachable whilst at the same time quite firm and honest with me – the phrase 'No BS' comes to mind– ensuring that the process was kept on track. I feel that the coaching process allowed me to attain the goals and mind-space I wanted within a much shorter period than if I had attempted it on my own.
Philip – leadership coaching client
"Catherine directed my focus on analysing my situation, after which we chose some roads to travel down and deal with all the obstacles that were on them (mostly built up and placed there by myself.). It was beneficial to have someone that I was accountable to which made me stay on track. Catherine's broad approach enhanced not only my business thinking but also gave me tools to deal with personal issues. Catherine was empathetic when it was required and asked the tough questions when they were needed which signals that she has good character judgement. New neural paths have been formed which I hope to keep traveling and possibly branching off from.
Gareth – business coaching client
"The life coaching process with Catherine Phillips came at the perfect time for me. Having left a stimulating and successful corporate career, it was a great opportunity to have an objective personal coach to hold me accountable to some challenging personal and business goals at a time of significant change in my life. The goals we created were exciting and stretching and the process helped me move far more directly and quickly to achieving them than I would ever have done on my own. Not only did I achieve my goals, but also encountered many unexpected personal challenges along the way enabling me to work through limiting beliefs and grow and develop in significant ways. All in all, it was a liberating process that helped me embrace the next chapter of my life with renewed energy. I would strongly recommend it, if you want to take control of your life whatever the circumstances. Be prepared to make it a priority, find the time and the financial investment, it is well worth it."
Kathy – business and personal development coaching client
"I have had a wonderful experience being coached by Catherine Phillips. She is very wise and insightful in understanding a person she is coaching. She is a good listener who does not impose her ideas. She has supported me in connecting to my natural skills in order to manage my Team and myself effectively. She has greatly supported me during coaching sessions to be able to stop, look back and reflect to what works best for both me and my team. I would strongly recommend Coach Catherine to managers who want to make a difference in their lives and their organizations."
Mbongeni – leadership coaching client
"My personal coaching sessions with Catherine Phillips were truly transformational. I came away with a bag of tools for dealing confidently with my relationships and other aspects of my life. Through the journey of the coaching amazing truths were revealed and I was able to become more and more clear about what the real issues I wanted to deal with were. Catherine has an incredible ability to intuitively guide the process of one's individual work in a flexible and yet structured way which created a secure and safe space for change to occur. All in all a very worthwhile experience which I continue to carry through into my daily life. Thank you Catherine!"
Gayle – personal development coaching client
"I want to say a huge thank you for seeing me through this wonderful process. I was feeling totally lost and fuzzy as if I was on a treadmill going round and round, not getting anywhere but unable to see any way of getting off. I was in a cycle of being unhappy with my work situation carrying over into being unhappy at home which in turn isolated me from socializing. You put me at ease right at the start and from the very first session I had something positive to work towards. I was able to talk freely about everything. You have an amazing talent for listening and drawing information out of people. You also have an incredible talent for filtering out what is relevant. You helped me see that I needed to change my work situation, that I had lost my sense of self and that I wanted to bring joy and fun back into my life. I feel confident and "happy in my skin". I am doing things that my husband and I have not done for years. Best of all, I am achieving a dream that I had many years ago to open my own training centre. All of this is thanks only to your coaching and it has been worth every cent."
Ingrid – personal development and business coaching client
"My coaching series with Catherine exceeded all my expectations. Not because I achieved more goals or landed a new job but because what I learned about myself and the tools I gained that will serve me far into the future. The coaching guided me towards realising and working in my full potential and helped me to accept that sometimes we just need a little support along the way. The fresh and broader perspective I have on life now has become my greatest asset and motivation."
Agata – personal development coaching client
"Coaching has taught me many valuable lessons and changed me in many ways, now I have got strategies to use in facing my challenges and these strategies came from the things that I was doing normal in my everyday life without notice anything, like hiking strategy (taking one step at time in reaching your goal) this has helped me a lot not to panic. Building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task, I have learn to model and to be an example to keep a team strong and united, I have learn through coaching that if a team is to accomplish its goals it has to know where it stands."
Thokozani – leadership coaching client
