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Empowering people to lead with greater alignment, purpose and joy!  

The Coaching Academy Blog

Posted: February 2024

Welcome to our brand new series, Where Are They Now? Leading on from our Coach in the Spotlight feature, we will be following up with our graduates further along their journey. Today, we're featuring Katie Stoddart, a Transformative Leadership & High-Performance Coach running her own coaching business, Katie Stoddart Coaching.

Since graduating with The Coaching Academy…

I focus on coaching high achievers, entrepreneurs and founders to enabled them to thrive in both their business and their life. My niche is transformative leadership, and high-performance coaching. The main concept is to ensure sustainable high performance.   

A great part of my work is also holding keynote talks and workshops on the topics of high performance & self-leadership. I have found that both topics go together as greater self-leadership enables high levels of performance.    As well as running my coaching business, I host a podcast where she interviews high performers and leaders around the world: The Focus Bee Show.  I have also published a book called The Magic of Focus.

My mission is to empower people to lead (themselves, their business) with greater alignment, purpose and joy!  

Combining productivity and wellbeing

I coach in this niche as what I am passionate about combining both productivity and wellbeing. I firmly believe that they go together. We can’t have great levels of performance if we aren’t nurturing our mind, body, and soul.  

The benefit has been that I think about performance holistically (for both myself and my clients) – this means optimising all areas of life for greater success and fulfilment. The aim is balance and sustainable energy, attention and time management.  

Defining success on their own terms

Coaching is a fundamental tool in this niche as it empowers the client to find their own best practices and approaches to high performance. This also means that the client gets to choose their own direction, and define success on their own terms.  

Coaching also helps to break many of the beliefs that many high achievers hold around work, performance, success and their own self-worth. Through the coaching sessions, the clients then question and shift their own blockages, and can reach that state of balance that they are looking for.

Top 3 insights from coaching within the High-Performance coaching niche:-

  1. Prioritise your energy over your time. Shift the way you manage your workload around your fluctuation of energy. For instance, if you have greater energy in the morning, start with your most important tasks then. And if your energy is lower mid-afternoon, do the easiest tasks then.  
  2. Nurture your focus. Our attention is a precious resource. Many of us are careful with how we spend our money, and our time. But we often forget about our attention. Each time we multitask, scroll through social media…, we are neglecting our attention, and then we don’t have the mental resources to do the more brain-demanding work required.  
  3. Consistency is the aim. Too often, as high achievers, we aim for big bold steps, and somewhere along the line we lose that consistency. It is better to start with smaller steps and be consistent. Though it might seem like common knowledge, it is not common practice. I have found that the two greatest pillars to all entrepreneurial success are: consistency & resilience.

We'd love to hear your goals for this year?

To continue to grow my speaking business, workshops etc, and my exclusive VIP Coaching Packages for 6 & 7 figure entrepreneurs who want to find wellbeing, balance and purpose again!

Finally, for those considering a career in coaching:-

My training at the Coaching Academy was the starting point of an amazing adventure, that is still on-going years later. To learn coaching is to be given the tools to lead a life of intention, and to enable others to do the same. 

It’s choosing to have the courage to confront our own auto-pilot, and to instead step on our journey of intentional living. It is a beautiful path, and a wonderful skill to learn!  

 

Thank you Katie for sharing an update on your coaching journey as a leadership and high-performance coach with us!

 

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