Episode #1: Katie Harvey - 14,000 hours of coaching, being part of the UK coaching vanguard and being a generalist coach
Katie Harvey has been coaching for more than 18 years. In that time, she has racked up more than 14,000 hours of coaching which, she says, is more than any other coach she has met over that time. She was part of the vanguard of coaches in the UK and for more than 12 years has worked to support other coaches: supervising and mentoring coaches and training new coaches, including through CoachU.
In this episode, we talk about:
- How she racked up more than 14,000 hours of coaching.
- The advantages and disadvantages of being part of the vanguard of coaching.
- The question of 'niche' and why Katie calls herself a generalist coach.
- What business and pricing model Katie has settled on after 18 years of experimentation.
- And how a trying a coaching sales technique on a photographer.... ended up with them getting married!
For more information about Katie, email her at katie@katieharveycoaching.co.uk.
For an extended biography of Katie and more about the podcast’s host, Robbie Swale, The Coach’s Journey podcast as a whole and The Coach’s Journey group programme, visit www.thecoachsjourney.com.
For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.
Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify.
Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):
~13 minutes: CoachU - http://www.coachinc.com/CoachU/
~25: Vegard Olsen – https://coachingpartner.net/cp/en/vegard-olsen-2/
~26: Laura Burkey - https://www.facebook.com/LauraBurkeyCoaching/
~35: The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler - https://richlitvin.com/the-prosperous-coach/
~46: Clare Pedrick - https://www.3dcoaching.com/claire-pedrick-mcc/
~46: Bill Cummings - https://www.theboothbyinstitute.org/
~70: Robbie’s video about how his coaching fees evolved over time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BSI5Cb8mU
~80: Katie’s website - http://katieharveycoaching.co.uk/
~96: Michael Neill - https://www.michaelneill.org/
~99: Local International Coaching Federation Chapters: https://coachfederation.org/why-icf/chapter-map
~99: Local Association for Coaching events: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/EventsOverview
FULL BIOGRAPHY
Katie has worked as a professional coach for the last 18 years, following a background in psychology and mental health research.
The 14,000+ hours of one-to-one coaching she has amassed during those years have been through working with a wide range of clients and topic areas.
Katie coaches executives and leaders of all levels, in areas such as career progression, leadership development and work-life balance, and has throughly enjoyed working with organisations as diverse as Hiscox, Hurstpierpoint College, BT, Disney, Christian Aid, Amex, EE, Vodaphone, and the BBC.
Over the last 10 years, Katie has gained enormous pleasure working within coaching. She is a faculty member at CoachU and has trained internal coaches in partnership with Corporate Potential in companies such as Coca-Cola Hellenic, NAK and BSI.
In 2007 she gained a diploma in Coach Supervision and since then has worked as a supervisor both with individual coaches and groups of coaches. She has trained internal coaches both in the BBC and in the Open University. She is supervisor of the coaches at London Business School.
She is an accredited Professional Certified Coach through the ICF (International Coach Federation) and holds a diploma in Coach Supervision through the CSA (Coach Supervision Academy). Through her commitment to standards in coaching she served on the UK board of directors for the ICF.
Katie lives in Brighton with her husband and three children and loves coaching as she look out at the sea!