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Leadership Coaching Testimonials

These testimonials reflect the breadth and depth of transformation senior leaders have experienced through their one-on-one leadership coaching.

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Katherine Hosie has supported me in a relatively new role across two organizations undergoing massive transformation. Faced with immense responsibility, my hope was that she would help me lean into my strengths and bring my best self to my role, which she did. These last 18 months have been pivotal in my development as a leader, and I have become not only more effective but also wiser.

Our leadership coaching work together has impacted me and my organization by stabilizing our operation at a crucially important and politically sensitive phase of our development. I could not have done it without her. She has an expert command of her practice and instills immediate confidence based on the pattern recognition that comes from her decades of leadership coaching experience.

After interviewing five other founder leadership coaches, I came to hear of Katherine Hosie's reputation as a world-class executive coach for some of the highest-performing leadership teams in the tech industry. Kate's leadership coaching had a dramatic impact on our organization's effectiveness and impact. She coached me on some of the highest-stakes, and highest-complexity areas of our business: business strategy, interpersonal effectiveness, leadership team development, and dealing with rapid growth.

My executive team and I have greatly benefited from her wisdom and expertise, and the unprecedented results we’ve achieved are a direct consequence of our leadership coaching with Kate. She is a force multiplier for technology leaders, capable of taking them and their companies from good to world-class. I am expanding our work to include all of our executive staff, and have already introduced her to six other high-potential leaders. Leading companies worth billions of dollars, I know they will benefit from her unique expertise.

Katherine Hosie and I worked together for years across two companies and two very different, challenging roles. My achievements with Katherine were and are a fundamental part of my success. She challenged my thinking across a range of personal and professional topics. The most important thing I discovered from my leadership coaching with Katherine was a next-level awareness of who I am, my goals, and my path to pursuing them.

Katherine’s ability and confidence in challenging sophisticated minds without judgment is a real gift. This ability to evaluate myself without judgment is unlocking a new chapter of performance for me that is both more efficient and less costly to myself and those around me. I am a more effective version of myself and eternally grateful for the perspectives, tactics, and awareness Katherine and I developed together.

Kate and I began working together when I was building a cross-functional team at a quickly growing San Francisco tech company. Together we’ve navigated the growth and development of my team and personal leadership style. She’s helped me identify and overcome blind spots, team challenges, and burnout.

Kate’s leadership coaching style is a balance of thoughtful, kind, and firm; her approach is backed by empathy and deep expertise. With other leadership coaches and some managers, I’ve felt like I’m working solely for them, but Kate is unique; she makes me feel like we’re both working in my best interest. Starting from our first session I felt seen, understood, and motivated by Kate. I trust her and look forward to our continued working relationship.

Katherine Hosie has been a trusted member of our consulting team, providing leadership coaching services to some of our key clients for seven years. Since I have known Katherine, she has demonstrated the highest degree of professionalism and integrity. She has an extraordinary ability to build trust quickly and work toward achieving visible success with her leadership coaching clients. She has worked with executives to improve their performance, thereby improving the results for the organization.

She brings a thoughtful and insightful approach to her leadership coaching, balanced with the ability to be direct and push back. This combination has made her incredibly successful and sought after among our clients. Katherine’s extraordinary profile stands above the rest, leading her to be selected for projects, thus winning business for our firm. She is a skilled practitioner of her craft and an asset to our firm.

I can’t recommend Kate’s coaching highly enough; it was my turning point. With her help I’ve identified and changed negative patterns, self-defeating beliefs and conflicting values that were holding me back for years. In the past 12 months, my income has more than tripled. I’m motivated, enthusiastic, and am seeing my goals realized. I’m changing the way I think and that’s changing my life entirely.

She has been a wise, insightful, and supportive mentor. Coaching is not just about achieving objectives; it’s about becoming who I want to be and living the way I want to live

I have been coaching for only a few short weeks, during which time I have experienced the most shattering period of my life. Kate has proved to be the most valuable coach I could have wished for. She has helped me come to terms with certain aspects of my personality and life which needed to be faced, and either accepted or challenged and dealt with.

In one session, Kate actually forced me to change a destructive lifetime habit into a positive acknowledgement of how useless this practice was and to alter it immediately. This brutally frank exchange was probably the most honest communication I have had with anyone in the last ten years. She’s not afraid to tell it like it is!

The results of our leadership coaching work were almost immediate. I had a much better sense of my personal and professional goals, and was able to have a greater impact. For example, proposals I worked on following my work with Kate led to several pieces of work being won in the Private Equity Group, and a significant positive impact to the bottom line. This was a great improvement to the work I had done previously.

Working with Kate has made me a more confident leader who is much more in touch with my personal and professional goals. In addition, Kate has gone above and beyond the traditional leadership coaching relationship to become a trusted friend and advisor. She has continued to play a supporting role for me, even beyond the leadership coaching engagement.

When I first went to see Kate, I didn’t really believe I needed a leadersip coach. Within an hour, I felt like I’d had a life-changing experience. Kate has a very warm and genuine nature which makes it easy to reach inside and be honest not only with yourself, but with others as well. Since seeing Kate, my leadership, professional, and personal life has elevated to a whole new level.

Sometimes someone comes into your life who leaves a lasting impression on you, and who helps you fundamentally change how you look at the world. Coaching has been such an experience for me, most importantly because of the input of Kate herself. She has an innate ability to capture the moment and make each session a journey full of insights and discoveries. She is, quite simply, a magical coach, with a wisdom that she shares both generously and expertly.

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I’ve been able to recruit some incredible talent that I wouldn't have otherwise, and now we stand out because of leadership and emotional intelligence. The leadership coaching approach Kate had articulated was immediately rigorous in a way I could see, translating as something that was instantly beneficial.

Kate isn't afraid to call out my blind spots, bluntly, and give guidance on where I need to openly ask for assistance. She is a champion I feel is in my corner, pushing me to challenge my assumptions and become a better leader. The changes I've seen from my leadership coaching include improvement in my overall communication across the entire organization, more effective collaboration with the leadership team, and a better overall grasp of my skill set.

Katherine Hosie takes a comprehensive and diagnostic approach to leadership coaching. Through her work, I have clarity and understanding of my strengths and leadership style. This has enabled me to grow as a leader, be promoted twice during my tenure in a new company and new country, and operate at my highest level in a high-performing and competitive workplace. As a result, I was able to have a measurable impact on our business and transform the narrative around our brand globally.

Katherine is exemplary. She provides an invaluable leadership coaching service; differentiated and unparalleled. Her work is fundamental to up-skilling me as a leader, enabling me to make better decisions and ultimately drive better business results.

Over seven months of leadership coaching, Kate helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses, channelling them to be fruitful for my professional growth. She also helped me understand how to show up best for my team. She introduced several leadership philosophies during our engagement that I put to work right away.

I have absolutely enjoyed and benefited immensely from working with her. She has helped nudge me into a more calm, balanced place as a leader who is staying out of the drama. Kate was consistently smiling and optimistic during our sessions and we were always laughing – which for me, is the sign of a positive and life-enhancing leadership coaching relationship. I would recommend working with Kate without hesitation.

I am an HR Partner at a San Francisco-based collaboration tool company with over 500 million users. Katherine Hosie has been the leadership coach for four senior leaders I have supported. All of them had tremendous leadership potential that was held back by their communication styles, emotional immaturity, and aversion to conflict.

Kate was able to quickly gain their trust, uncover the root causes of their problems, and work with them on solutions and mechanisms to transform their leadership style.

The positive impact she has had has been nothing short of extraordinary. All of the leaders have made significant turnarounds, both as leaders and as people. Her approach was so successful, that it led to many of them being promoted or given increased scope. These leaders have been so grateful for Kate’s work that they said they would have paid for her services out of their own pocket.

Katherine is by far our most leveraged and highly requested leadership coach.

Katherine has provided me with incomparable support, helped me work through innumerable difficult issues, and made a tangible difference in my life. I will continue to seek out her wise counsel as my career develops, and can’t recommend her highly enough. A leadership coach and counselor who has become a trusted friend and confidante.

After 6 months with Kate, I'm a stronger, more balanced, and much more effective leader. I work at an early-stage startup that's grown 10x in two years. As one of the first employees and now an SVP, I faced big challenges while leading through intense and constant change. My goals: restructuring my team, staying composed and fair during chaos and others' anxieties, delegating and holding others accountable, and, most importantly, leveling up how I spend my time to match the demands of my role.

Kate's approach was a game-changer for my journey. She gave me straight, kind-but-firm feedback (exactly the style I wanted to adopt). She made sure I followed through, holding me accountable after every session, which turned venting into action. Kate's curiosity pushed me to deeper insights, and she constantly tied our work back to 360 feedback and diagnostics, making the advice personal and real, not academic. Her ability to diagnose my specific behaviors quickly, validate and challenge me, and model my desired leadership style was transformative. I'm leaving this process with a rebuilt, refined leadership toolkit that still feels "me". Highly recommend Kate!

Katherine Hosie worked as a consultant and leadership coach on several assignments for Bain and Company. On all assignments, Katherine was able to achieve the objectives established and very positive results with Bain Consulting.

Feedback from leaders who worked with Katherine commented on her many strengths, including her ability to create processes to identify key issues, define goals, build awareness, and provide a range of techniques to facilitate behavioral change.

Katherine’s style whilst working with people is supportive, respectful, and motivating. Whilst I have worked with Katherine I have found her advice both insightful and pragmatic. I recommend Katherine Hosie for leadership and organizational change work, in addition to leadership coaching assignments for individuals.

Kate is brilliant at uncovering the truth in people, and helping them identify the steps they need to take to live that truth. She is extraordinarily insightful and brings a wealth of tools to fast track you. I cannot recommend Kate highly enough; every session will provide you with breakthroughs and strategies which compound on one another, so you can gather momentum and establish a whole new direction.

I am amazed at how powerful and effective Katherine’s leadership coaching style is and what an impact she has had on me in such a short time. Kate walks beside me, listens to me, and tells me clearly what I need to hear. She is energetic, dynamic, humorous and supportive.

When I first started working with Kate, I had stepped into an acting clinical operations role during a time of intense growth and change at a healthcare startup. I was navigating complex cross functional challenges that required quick alignment across stakeholders and consistent scalable results under pressure.Through coaching, Kate helped me uncover what was holding me back from stepping fully into my leadership potential. Her use of diagnostic tools, 360 feedback, and thoughtful reflective questioning gave me clarity and direction to move forward with confidence and impact.

As a mental health professional, it was clear to me that her background in psychology played a key role in helping me identify deeper blockers that were not immediately obvious but were critical to address. What I appreciated most about working with Kate was her grounded structured approach balanced by genuine kindness and acceptance. She brought both strategic insight and personal care to our sessions, helping me grow not just as a leader but as a whole person.

When Kate and I first started, I was moving countries and taking on a new role as my leader departed. Kate helped me understand my strengths and how to use them in times of crisis. I am now so much more aware of my strengths that it has allowed me to elevate myself to a C-Suite position. I couldn’t be happier with my development from our leadership coaching sessions.

From my first leadership coaching session with Kate, I felt totally relaxed and knew this was what I was looking for. She has uncanny intuition, holds me accountable for my actions, and has a way of asking the right questions to get the best out of me. Kate adapts every session to suit me.

The growth, personal development and results I have achieved so far have been nothing short of amazing. Kate has a direct, honest, and totally up-front approach, and a great sense of humor. The decision to embark on this journey with Kate has been my best by far.

I am extremely fortunate to have Kate as my leadership coach. She is an energetic, enthusiastic coach and mentor. She is professional and incredibly resourceful. Although constantly challenging me, Kate is sensitive and caring and has been instrumental in assisting me to reach my purpose in life, while providing me with a most supportive environment.

I met Katherine Hosie while she was President of the International Coach Federation Australasia. As President of ICF South Australia, I had the pleasure of welcoming Katherine to present at our event during Coach Week.

Kate was marvelous; she presented not only herself but ICF Australasia in such a positive, professional and knowledgeable way. I found Kate’s leadership inspiring, her manner and interpersonal skills exceptional. Additionally, her advocacy for the ICF credentialing program has been vital in raising the professional bar for the coaching industry.

Katherine Hosie has worked closely with me during a period of intense transition in my career and life. Among several prominent personal and professional advisors, Katherine has stood out for truly providing me with some of the most concentrated mentorship value. It is likely that without her leadership coaching I would not have been able to raise millions of dollars for my own venture into artificial intelligence.

Katherine Hosie has supported me through a period of great uncertainty in my life as I prepared to leave a company I had founded five years ago. At the same time, I was also confronting various personal challenges.

Through her perceptive questioning, she’s already profoundly impacted me. She’s helped me understand both my weaknesses and strengths more intimately and discover underlying root causes for weaknesses that have long been a challenge. She’s also helped me clarify my values and purpose and provided me with the strategies and support to adopt healthier habits and routines.

The value her leadership coaching has already brought to my life is incredible, and I am a better person for having known her.

I hadn’t gotten much from prior leadership coaching experiences, but this was different. Kate helped me put my finger on how I wasn’t letting myself truly be a part of the organization, and to take action to overcome that. I love the techniques we used, and still use them at least weekly. Things are going great. I’ve really made an effort to turn my attention and energy to the way our leadership team communicates and works together, and it’s made a huge difference.

I am delighted to recommend Katherine Hosie as an leadership coach of the highest quality. Kate has assisted our organization with my COO, who was struggling with change yet fully committed to the organization. Kate’s leadership coaching has brought about a complete transformation in their attitude; an ability to see things differently, and an understanding of self.

In turn, this has seen a turnaround from someone who was considering leaving the organization after many years, to someone who has been transformed into a modern-thinking, insightful, and happy leader. They are now well-equipped to move forward with the organization and take a lead role in the changing environment.

Katherine Hosie is currently the only person in our 30-member leadership coaching team who has mastered our leadership coaching model in a way that allows her to mentor others learning how to coach using our methods. Katherine’s experience is relied upon to diagnose systemic patterns and target interventions, ultimately shifting dysfunctional leadership to a more effective and functional way of operating. We currently have several significant client engagements where her leadership coaching expertise is vital.

Katherine has been the primary talent scout, interviewer, and advisor in the selection of our team of coaches. She is the first person we go to to see if a leadership coach is qualified to do the high-level work with C-level executives that we require. Katherine is a standout in her ability to bring a global perspective, a track record of successfully coaching and advising C-level executives, and the capability of leading, mentoring, and developing others in our leadership coaching practice to support our differentiated client experience.

When I was Head of Coaching for Yellow Edge, Katherine Hosie was in a team of around 20 leadership coaches delivering developmental coaching. The feedback she received was always exemplary. Katherine is a spectacular leadership coach and a supportive colleague. If you have the opportunity to work with her, grab it with both hands as it will add value and make a difference to your life and the lives of those around you.

Since commencing my leadership coaching with Katherine Hosie, I have developed my communication skills, particularly with my team. I have been able to use effective techniques at the right times, communicate with influence, and get their commitment to do what is required of them in a timely manner.

I am now a more assertive communicator, and am able to delegate without feeling guilty - trusting others to do the job. Katherine has instilled self-belief and leadership confidence in me. I recently received informal feedback from my CEO thanking me for my leadership and the support I have provided him in recent times.

Kate gave it to me straight, there was no pussyfooting around or hidden agenda. She called it and identified instances so I couldn’t have any reaction other than to understand.

I cannot speak more highly of my leadership coaching with Katherine Hosie. At each stage of the journey, she helped me develop my awareness, skills, and approaches for my professional and personal life that led to immediate and ongoing improvements. Katherine is clearly very talented but most of all has a genuine, caring style that makes the process of leadership coaching a breeze.

After each session I found so many of her messages would continue to resonate and easily find their way into application. Looking back, it has been a life changing experience and I would not hesitate to recommend her to others.

Kate made me address the problems that I was trying to keep hidden under the carpet! She has made me feel more confident about branching out into new areas of my life, trying new things, and pushing myself to do the things I was scared of doing.

If you’re thinking about hiring Kate – DO IT! She helps you to keep focused, she sees right through you and knows if you’re skirting around the issue. Because of her, I am now a much happier, healthier, self-assured person who can focus on the things that I was once too scared to acknowledge. She understands me and can innately put my expressions, pauses, doubts, fears, and joys into words.

I have been using Kate’s leadership coaching services for only a few months, but in that time she has - quite literally - changed my life. Kate has an uncanny ability to see beyond the immediate issue, and makes me think very deeply and reflectively about my own practice. In fact, I have learnt things about myself that I had no idea about! While not always comfortable, Kate makes me consider things from different angles, finding alternative solutions to issues that sometimes feel insurmountable.

Kate’s ability to actively help me define my goals, and more importantly, to help me achieve them, is phenomenal! Before commencing my coaching, I was on a rollercoaster ride. I didn’t know how to set goals properly, and my achievements would be up and down. Since I’ve started my coaching with Kate, I’ve reached every goal I’ve set.

My results have not only exceeded the expectations of my organization, but of myself as well, and with Kate’s guidance I am certain that they will continue to improve and sustain my new level of income. My results, year to date, have gone from average to 324% to target! To ask whether Kate is ‘worth it’ would be a serious understatement. The value that she’s added, not only to my income but also to my business and personal life, is immeasurable.

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