How Coaching Helps LeadersPowerhouse Coaching
Executive Coach for CEOs and C-Suite
MSc Applied Science, Evidence-Based Coaching Psychology
- 23+ years Coaching since 2003
- CEO Coaching since 2009
- 20,000+ Hours
MSc Applied Science, Evidence-Based Coaching Psychology
I work with senior leaders under sustained pressure where borrowed strategies fail and authority must be rebuilt from the inside out.
How coaching helps leaders is by giving them space to stop performing for a moment and tell themselves the truth.
Most leaders don’t need more strategies or concepts. They need space to see clearly, take a breath, remember who they are, and decide.
Coaching clears your mental fog, steadies your nervous system, and gets you back to making hard calls with calm, conviction, and less second-guessing. It’s where clarity returns and burnout eases.
It’s normal and necessary to hit a wall at times – forcing you to grow and find new ways of operating. What served you in the first half of your career will not serve you in the second half.
With coaching you will go from feeling you’re in over your head – to being the leader you’ve always wanted to be.
As Shakespeare said, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon ’em.”
Relatedly, leaders find coaches for three reasons.
Pure coaching is designed to bring out the strength and intelligence of the leader – not the coach. When done well, you will experience an integrity to your leadership that will feel like an true expression of who you are. If you’ve ever wished for the time and space to think deeply, with a sounding board that had no agenda but to help you find your own best answers, that is ideally what coaching enables – clarity, certainty, alignment.
There will also be times when you’re wanting solutions you just don’t have. A professional coach will have years of experience and best practice to share with you, ideally helping you tailor solutions to fit your leadership approach, values, and strengths.
Executive leadership coaching will also help you avoid common pitfalls that others experience in the absence of the right support. And the wise wish to be corrected.
In practice, how coaching helps leaders is by sharpening their clarity, strengthening resilience, and steadying them for high-stakes decisions. With a coach beside them, leaders move past overwhelm, stop second-guessing, and return to leading with composure and impact.
This works because the best coaching begins with self-knowledge.
I believe the first responsibility of leadership is to know yourself. Executive coaching offers something rare: deep insight into who you are, the effect you have on others, and a confidential space to access your own best thinking.
Leadership coaching helps you:
No coach is perfect, but here are some things to pay attention to. Avoid a coach that talks more than they listen. Avoid coaches that are not curious about who you truly are. Avoid coaches that do the work for you, rather than having you think things through for yourself. Avoid coaches that are only supportive, commiserate with you, and do not challenge you. Conversely, avoid coaches that judge you. Do you step away from the coaching session with more power or less? More power is the goal.
Here is how coaching helps leaders become stronger and more resourceful. By looking for a coach that makes you do the work.
Years ago I realized that my ideal as a coach was to be Stupid, Heartless, and Lazy. This requires a huge amount of restraint. Let me explain.
I am a coaching purist, and from my experience, true coaches need to help you find your own answers, which is why they need to be deliberately “stupid” as much as possible. They may be tremendously resourceful and experienced, but they will push you to do your best thinking, rather than doing it for you. Thinking for yourself is required for change, helping you become resourceful and trust in yourself, not dependent on the coach.
Professional coaches will not buy your excuses, which is where “heartless” – or healthy detachment – is important. They will not rescue you but instead push power to you and challenge you to step up.
And a true coach ideally sits on their hands and aims to be “lazy”, letting you do as much of your own work as possible. This is difficult as most coaches, including me, want to be deeply helpful. My aim is to always tap your resources first before sharing my own, again to make you stronger. That said, I have 22 years of solutions available when you truly need them.
What is the outcome of all this? You will know yourself deeply, have bespoke solutions you have designed for yourself, and will trust yourself more than ever before. You will also know your weaknesses and be able to lead with those in mind.
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“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.”
“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.”
“I’ve been able to recruit some incredible talent that I wouldn’t have otherwise, and we now 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.”
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My role is to be your most honest and trustworthy partner, sharing with you what others won’t say, and to ultimately change your leadership, your organization, and your life for the better.
Other areas of your life that are impacting your leadership, including health and relationships, are also part of the work if you choose. Many leaders have found it immensely valuable to have me understand and support them in alleviating additional pressures they would otherwise face alone.
I am trustworthy and discreet.
I partner with leaders across the US, from New York to Silicon Valley, with some clients in Europe and India. The majority of my coaching is done virtually with some face-to-face clients in Manhattan and Greenwich, CT. Additional F2F options are available by request.
I have a Master’s degree in Evidence-Based Coaching Psychology and bring years of experience coaching CEOs and senior leaders. My approach is informed by coaching psychology and grounded in sustainable outcomes – not motivational fluff or generic advice. I also have years of experience partnering with internal HR and People teams, ensuring positive results for both the leader and organization. If you’re searching for an experienced executive coach trusted by intelligent professionals, let’s check for fit.
My clients consistently experience greater clarity, calm, stronger executive presence, and higher team engagement. They come to know themselves better than ever before, lead with more authenticity, and make confident decisions – even in high-stakes environments.
If you’re experiencing persistent pressure, navigating complexity, second-guessing yourself, feeling fatigue or burnout, or seeking to lead with more ease and impact – it may be time. I invite you to Request Your Consultation and make a decision from there. You’ll know by doing.
I’ve worked across a vast spectrum of industries – including but not limited to AI, finance, technology, private equity, and healthcare. My clients share one thing in common: they are intelligent senior leaders who value discretion, clarity, and results.
Yes. In addition to 1:1 CEO and senior leadership coaching, I offer leadership team coaching and triad coaching when needed. These engagements are highly customized with the purpose being increased trust, transparency, and alignment.
I have coached leaders at the following organizations, amongst many others: Activision Blizzard, Airbnb, Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Athleta, Carta, Cohesity, Coinbase, Collective Health, Cruise, Dior, Disney, Dropbox, eightfold.ai, Figma, Firsthand, Fundbox, General Catalyst, Google, Included Health, Instacart, Klaviyo, KPMG, L’Oréal, Lightspeed, LinkedIn, Meta, Move.com, NetApp, Old Navy, Patreon, Pave, People.ai, Pinecone, Robinhood, Samsara, Scopely, Sephora, ServiceNow, Shopify, Snowflake, Streamlit, Stripe, Tatcha, Visa, and WorkWhile.
Born in Australia, Katherine Hosie is the founder of Powerhouse Coaching with over 20,000 hours of coaching experience. She works with CEOs and C-suite leaders from New York to Silicon Valley, having been based in the United States since 2013.
She has a Master of Applied Science, Evidence-Based Coaching Psychology, from the University of Sydney, which leads the world in research-based coaching education. She was previously President, International Coach Federation (ICF) Australasia, where she led over 1,300 coaches.
Powerhouse Coaching is a nationwide leadership coaching practice founded by Katherine Hosie in 2003. It specializes in leadership development for CEOs, founders, and their leadership teams – blending evidence-based insight with real-world leadership demands.
If you want to understand how I work, my background, and who this coaching is for see About Katherine Hosie.
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