Kathryn Pope
A provocative and creative thought partner, Kathryn stretches and supports leaders to access their deeper wisdom and skills to explore new possibilities, so they can navigate the challenges of change, and make real progress in a complex world. She helps leaders uncover limiting beliefs and release old habits, inspiring themselves and their people to go beyond expectations and deliver insightful, impactful results.
A hugely experienced and well-known international executive coach, with a strong commercial background, Kathryn believes coaching is a true partnership between coach and client, both exploring realities and possibilities together, focusing on what matters, cutting through busyness and so enabling new perspectives and insights.
Her approach is intuitive, agile, generative, sensible and pragmatic. She is endlessly curious, imaginative, reflective and listens deeply, creating a trusted and confidential space in which to work. She is adept, experienced and enjoys working with neurodiverse leaders.
Kathryn works with boards, executive and senior management leaders and their teams, across all industry sectors. Her clients have included Shell, Santander, John Lewis, Arup, PepsiCo, Sky, Microsoft, Crown Estate, KPMG, EY, Waitrose, Bank of England, Ministry of Defence, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, William Grant, WPP, Catapult, McBride, GE, Very, England Rugby, Boots, DHL, Virgin Media, Nationwide Foundation.
Kathryn has 10,000+ coaching hours and been a Professional Credentialed Coach since 2009. She has many accreditations: Resilience Coach, Coach Supervisor, Transformational Presence Coach, Marshall Goldsmith SCC and Team Coach, Meta Team Coach and John Mattone Master Coach. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and in 2025 completed the ADDCA Advance ADHD Coach Training and has over 300 hours of coaching clients with ADHD.
She is certified in a range of tools including Lumina Spark, MBTI, TKI, Prophet profiling, GLA 360, Meta Team. She is a Fellow of the RSA, member of the IOD and an Accredited Member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Coaching Supervision Academy (CSA).
She is the co-creator with Alan Arnett of Resourceful ConversationsTM and FrameshiftingTM.
“KP has an amazing ability to quickly understand the situation and ask the challenging questions that draw out personal challenges and behaviours that can be developed.”
“A delightful combination of brains, wit, empathy and leadership.”
“Very smart, creative and passionate. Great sense of humour.”
“A massively supportive, incredibly perceptive coach who gets to the heart of the matter with me every time. Unfailing.”