Meet the team
Katie Gray
ICF accredited (ACC), NCC, LL.B (hons), B.A (Journalism)
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Katie is an executive coach with international top tier legal training and experience.

She partners with her clients on purposeful career progression and change, battling burnout and supporting them to create sustainable and enriching careers that complement their life outside the office.

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 coaching 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.

Katie lives in Auckland New Zealand with her husband, three young children and Daisy, their golden retriever.
Qualifications
  • Newfield Certified Coach in ontological coaching
  • Certified Health Coach through The Coach Partnership
  • International Coaching Federation Certified (ACC)
  • ICF-approved group and team coach training through Potentials Realized

TESTIMONIALS

“Katie is an amazing coach with a high degree of emotional intelligence. She is very friendly, always enthusiastic and very professional. I experienced her as being highly motivated to support me through my objectives. 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! The sessions have also helped me manage my stress levels as I ascend the steep learning curve and take on more demands at work in view of this promotion. Katie also helped me identify some blind spots around my working style and the impact of my body language when engaging in difficult conversations.”
Senior LawyerSouth-East Asia
“Katie is an amazing coach with a high degree of emotional intelligence. She is very friendly, always enthusiastic and very professional. I experienced her as being highly motivated to support me through my objectives. 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! The sessions have also helped me manage my stress levels as I ascend the steep learning curve and take on more demands at work in view of this promotion. Katie also helped me identify some blind spots around my working style and the impact of my body language when engaging in difficult conversations.”
Senior LawyerSouth-East Asia
“I engaged Katie as a coach through work as I was wanting some clarity around my career aspirations and dealing with a challenging work situation. 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 really liked the mindful approach that Katie applied too, feeling into situations, becoming more conscious of my breath and posture, and how this can impact how I go about my day and approach situations. 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 also has a really high level of integrity and it is clear that she genuinely cares about her clients. I loved the additional support that Katie provided outside of our 1:1 sessions, including a thorough overview follow-up email to our session which not only helped summarised what we worked together, but also provided a lot of accountability leading into each session."
Marketing ManagerCharity sector, NZ
“Katie is authentic, professional and approachable. I found that my struggle to engage in meaningful conversations with difficult people was hampering my career development and having a negative impact on how I viewed my effectiveness at work. Above all else, 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.”
Human Resources ManagerSouth East Asia
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