Katharine Gale

Professional Coach, United Kingdom

Katharine is a passionate advocate for menopausal women in the workplace. She offers coaching primarily for women around menopause after leaving her job due to personally experiencing perimenopausal anxiety leading to overwhelm and burnout. She remains committed and determined to enable women to thrive in their midlife careers through coaching and reducing the impact of menopausal symptoms. Katharine’s clinical research has been focused on women’s experience and, more recently, on the working lives of menopausal women. She offers coaching to help women understand their minds and bodies, enabling them to speak up and flourish personally and professionally.

Background

Following nearly three decades as a senior clinical leader in the NHS, Katharine trained as a leadership and empowerment coach and trainer of women. As an Independent Consultant Nurse in Women’s Health and Certified Coach accredited with the International Coaching Federation, she empowers women to deal with the unique challenges they face around menopause.

Experience and qualifications

Katharine has nearly three decades of clinical expertise in women’s health and is a Registered Nurse and Independent Prescriber with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. She is a trained Consultant Nurse in Menopause and a current member of the British Menopause Society. Katharine’s clinic research has been focused on women’s experience and, more recently on the working lives of menopausal women.

Approach to coaching

Katharine’s coaching enables women to move from a constant state of uncertainty around how they want to navigate menopause, influenced by the expectations, demands and beliefs of themselves and others. She offers coaching to help women understand their minds and bodies, enabling them to speak up and flourish personally and professionally.

Using her clinical and coaching experience, Katharine uses a compassionate, creative and thought-provoking coaching style for women. Underpinned by a cognitive behavioural approach in empowering them with confidence, courage and resilience for blending their professional and personal lives. After the coaching sessions with Katharine, women leave energised, with renewed motivation and increased self-compassion, with the confidence to ask for what they need to flourish at home and in their careers.

“Katharine’s conversational and emotional intelligence is exceptional, enabling me to connect, trust and feel at ease with her. Katharine has provided direction, empathy and support while openly challenging and sensitively questioning my ideals during my coaching experience.”
Coachee

“Coaching with Katharine has been a game changer. Before starting coaching, I was quite unfocused, out of control, quite toxic self-reflection, with low confidence as a midlife woman in a senior leadership role. I have had other coaches and mentors, but Katharine is unique in her approach; she is compassionate, astute and inspirational, and her coaching feels far more holistic and tailored. Working with Katharine feels like a life reset. I wish every woman could experience it; I truly do.”
Coachee

“Katharine came into my world when I felt as if I had done everything I could to progress my career, and as I was coming up to 60, I felt as if I should resign myself to never achieving my perceived potential as a female leader. Katharine carefully challenged my perceptions of myself and particularly how this could impact how others perceived me. I learnt how to show my passion in ways that allowed others to see my commitment and ability to bring my authentic self to the workplace for the organisation’s benefit.”
Coachee