Kate Bradshaw
Kate Bradshaw is an executive and leadership coach who works with senior leaders and teams to develop authentic, values‑led leadership grounded in self‑awareness, confidence and resilience. She supports leaders to grow fulfilment, clarity and impact in complex and creative environments.
Kate sees coaching as a catalyst for meaningful, lasting change and as an energising process of exploration, experimentation and curiosity. Her purpose is to support leaders to make conscious choices about how they want to lead and live, uncovering patterns that may be limiting or rich with possibility, and reconnecting with values, purpose and personal agency.
She creates a coaching space that is both supportive and appropriately challenging, enabling clients to reflect on their story so far while experimenting with practical shifts in mindset and behaviour. Kate draws on multiple coaching frameworks and uses reflection, nature, metaphor, creativity, mindfulness and embodied practices to create engaging and effective coaching experiences. Her work supports clients to move beyond restrictive assumptions into creative possibility, with outcomes including authentic leadership, renewed motivation, career reinvention, confidence and resilience.
Kate works with senior leaders and leadership teams across the creative industries, retail, media and adjacent sectors. Her clients have included the BBC, Imaginae Studios, Formula 1, games producers UsTwo and Playground Games, festival creators Boomtown, and retailers such as Lipsy and URBN Outfitters.
Kate’s career began in Apple computer sales and developed into senior, award‑winning leadership roles at the BBC, ITV and Discovery. She has been coaching professionally since 2011 and became EMCC accredited in 2012. She holds the i‑coach Academy Certificate in Coaching Practice (EMCC Senior Practitioner level), is a member of the EMCC, works in line with its code of ethics and receives regular supervision.
Kate leads a UK Government‑funded leadership programme for the games and creative industries. She is also a regenerative farmer, embodying a purpose‑led, values‑driven approach to career and life transitions.
“Her EQ to me was the stand-out feature - the push and the challenges back to me were always well timed and I was the right kind of uncomfortable at the right times!”
“Kate’s work was transformational for my personal development and leadership skills.”
“The different approaches you used to develop my thinking inspired me to appreciate insights into myself. You have supported and developed me in a very positive way.”
“Kate supported me through a challenging point in my career, helping me build self-awareness, confidence, and a greater sense of fulfilment. Her ability to cut through to the root of issues is remarkable, and her insights were both accurate and eye-opening. She helped me uncover who I am and who I want to be - I would highly recommend her.”
“Being coached by Kate has been great. Her understanding nature and empathy was key to facilitating honest and open conversations around the career and life decisions I faced. Kate was able to challenge my outlook on business problems, equipping me with a greater self awareness and assertiveness to look at these through a different lens.”
“Kate’s coaching has challenged my thinking hugely but without leaving me feeling threatened or defensive. I am able to work more effectively with colleagues even under intense pressure and I’ve now landed the COO role I always wanted.”