Thanks for stopping by, I'm Kelly, a values-led coach, consultant and catalyst for change.

Helping leaders and teams navigate complexity, growth and change.

For leaders who want to grow their impact, and their organisations, with clarity, confidence and integrity.

Grounded in over 25 years of lived leadership experience across technology, financial services, scale-ups, non-profits and complex organisations.

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What changes when you work with me

My clients don't come to coaching because they're failing. They come because they're capable, and know there's more available to them.

This is coaching that connects self-awareness to real-world performance.

Perform with clarity and confidence in high-pressure, high-visibility roles
Navigate promotions, transitions and organisational politics without second-guessing yourself
Lead with authority and authenticity, even in complex or fast-changing environments
Make better decisions, faster, without carrying unnecessary emotional load
Build sustainable leadership rhythms that support long-term success, not short-term survival
Stop getting in your own way, and start using your strengths deliberately

Outcomes my clients often report include improved leadership confidence, increased impact and influence, greater resilience and clearer decision-making, with benefits felt by both the individual and the organisation.

How I can help

I work with leaders, founders and teams navigating growth, complexity or reinvention, through three complementary pathways, each tailored to help you tackle complexity and drive meaningful change.

Kelly Keating facilitating a conversation with a large group around a long table

Coaching for leaders and founders

Leadership can be full-on. Coaching gives you the space to slow down, step back and make sense of what's really going on in your work, your team, or your next chapter.

It's a confidential space to think clearly, get honest with yourself, and make intentional choices about how you lead and live.

Whether you're navigating change, growing a team, feeling stuck, or just need a sounding board, we'll work together on what matters most to you. Expect practical support, clear thinking and the kind of questions that shift things.

Team performance coaching

Build trust, strengthen communication, and tackle the elephants in the room.

Great teams don't just happen. They're built through honest conversations, shared purpose and the right conditions to do their best work.

Whether your team is growing fast, stuck in silos, or hitting tension points, I create space for teams to slow down, connect and do the work that often gets missed in the day-to-day.

We'll look at how your team works together: what's working, what's not, and what's getting in the way. Then we'll build practical tools and shared understanding to help you move forward with more clarity, trust and focus.

No fluffy team-building. Just real, grounded conversations and exercises that help people show up better, for the work and for each other.

Culture change consulting and leadership development

Scaling teams, shifting ways of working, and leading with values.

When your organisation is growing, evolving or hitting complexity, it's easy for culture and ways of working to get messy. That's where I come in.

I partner with founders, People teams and senior leaders to bring clarity, structure and focus to times of change, whether you're scaling a team, redefining how you work, or embedding your values into everyday decisions.

It's practical, people-focused support to help you shape a culture that sticks, not just values printed on a wall. Together, we'll make the invisible stuff (behaviours, habits, team norms) visible, and workable.

Be it a one-off, outcome-focused workshop or a longer-term partnership, I'll listen to you and build a solution that works.

For individuals

Coaching for you, whether your organisation is funding it or you're investing in yourself

Some of the people I work with are stepping into bigger roles. Others are leading through a demanding season, or standing at a crossroads and asking “what next?”

How it works

We start with a free 15-minute conversation. If it feels right, we agree together what you want to focus on and how many sessions make sense, so there's no off-the-shelf package.

Sessions are confidential, practical and online or in person.

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What clients say

“Kelly's ability to listen and ask insightful questions is helping me to unpack various situations and see them with a new perspective. Kelly is a wonderful coach and has a great ability of being able to perceive what is going on beneath the surface.”

Robert, Global People Leader

“It was my dedicated space to think more strategically about my role and leadership approach… The accountability between sessions supported my sustained progress, rather than just a one-off reflection. Overall, the programme strengthened my confidence, decision-making, and ability to navigate complex stakeholder and regulatory environments more effectively.”

S, Global Fintech Leader

“One of the most valuable areas of growth has been becoming more intentional and confident in difficult conversations… The sessions encouraged me to reflect on what motivates me professionally and what I am looking for in the next stage of my career, and to identify opportunities that are more closely aligned with my values, strengths, and long-term professional goals.”

M, Global Marketing Leader

“I have appreciated the opportunity to take a step back from day-to-day work and focus on myself and my own development in a structured way that I can continue beyond the programme… My coach was extremely knowledgeable and effectively guided me through the process, whereby I have made significant progress towards my programme goals.”

Jane, Global HR Leader

For organisations

Coaching and development for your leaders and teams

If you're a People, HR or L&D lead, or a founder commissioning support for your team, you need to know what you're getting and how it will work. Most engagements follow the same simple shape, and most begin with a Team Healthcheck.

A small team in discussion around a table, making notes together

How an engagement works

Start with a Team Healthcheck

Before recommending anything, I want to understand what's really going on. We agree the priorities and co-design a short diagnostic for your team. Team members respond anonymously, and I recommend a 30-minute conversation with each of them alongside it. You get a clear picture of where the team is strong, where perceptions differ, and what's getting in the way.
Make sense of it together

I share the findings with you first, then facilitate a session with the team to explore what the results mean and agree what to focus on. This is often where the most useful conversations happen, and many teams intentionally build it into a strategy day or offsite.
Act on what matters

Depending on what we find, that might be team coaching, a bespoke, focused workshop, 1:1 coaching for key leaders, or support with wider culture and ways-of-working change. You invest only in what the evidence points to.
Review progress

We repeat the healthcheck after six months, so you can see what's changed and have evidence to share internally.

The Team Healthcheck package

A clearly scoped first step, for one team, at a fixed fee agreed before we start.

Talk to me about a healthcheck for your team

What's included

A scoping conversation with you as sponsor, to agree what matters most
A diagnostic tailored to your team's priorities and language
Anonymous responses from every team member, plus the leader's own view
A confidential 30-minute conversation with each team member (recommended)
A visual report showing strengths, gaps and where views differ
A debrief with you, before anything is shared with the team
A facilitated team session to make sense of the findings and agree priorities
Clear recommendations for next steps, with no obligation to go further

Why start with a healthcheck?

It gives you evidence rather than assumptions before you commit to anything bigger. Everyone has a voice, so the team owns the findings rather than having a diagnosis handed to them. And it's a clearly defined first step with a fixed scope, so it's easy to agree and budget for.

What you can expect

A clear proposal with agreed scope and a fixed fee before any work starts
Team-level themes shared with you, while individual responses and 1:1 coaching conversations stay confidential
Regular check-ins with you as sponsor
Online or in person

Team healthcheck: understand how your team really sees itself

Every team has strengths, blind spots and untapped potential.

Before any team coaching engagement begins, I work with the team leader and key stakeholders to understand what matters most. Together, we identify the priorities, challenges and outcomes that will have the greatest impact on team performance.

Using proven team coaching principles, including the Team Selfie framework developed by Team Coaching Studio, I then create a tailored diagnostic designed specifically for your team. No generic surveys. No off-the-shelf reports.

Team members share their experience anonymously across the areas most relevant to your team, such as:

Purpose and direction
Leadership
Roles and responsibilities
Communication
Relationships and trust
Ways of working
Resources and support
Stakeholder engagement

Alongside the diagnostic, I recommend a confidential 30-minute conversation with each team member. The data shows what people think; the conversations help explain why, and often surface what a survey alone would miss.

Example team healthcheck report: leader and team scores compared across seven areas — The leader's view and the team's view, area by area (select to enlarge)

Example team healthcheck results: the biggest gaps between leader and team, and scores for each question — Where the leader and team differ most, question by question (select to enlarge)

What makes it different

Every diagnostic is co-created with the project sponsor, so the questions reflect your team's reality, language and priorities rather than forcing your challenges into a standard template.

The result is richer insight, stronger engagement and conversations that get to the heart of what will make the biggest difference.

From data to dialogue

Individual responses come together in a visual report that highlights:

Areas of alignment and strength
Differences in perception across the team
Gaps between leaders' and team members' experiences
Opportunities for growth and development

More than a survey

The diagnostic is not the destination. It's the beginning of a meaningful conversation about how the team wants to work together, achieve results and create the conditions for long-term success.

That's why the healthcheck is often brought intentionally into a team strategy day or offsite, so the findings shape the plan rather than sitting in a report.

“We desperately need more leaders who are committed to courageous, wholehearted leadership and who are self-aware enough to lead from their hearts, rather than unevolved leaders who lead from hurt and fear.” Brené Brown

About

I'm Kelly, an executive and leadership coach, consultant and facilitator.

For over 25 years I've worked inside organisations, leading teams, advising senior leaders and driving change across banking, financial services, technology, scale-ups, founder-led businesses and non-profits. I know how organisations really work: the politics, the pressure, and the gap between the strategy on paper and what actually happens. And I know what it takes for leaders to succeed inside them.

Alongside my own clients, I coach leaders of fast-growing companies through a specialist programme for high-growth businesses. I work with founders and senior teams at the point where what got them here is no longer enough to take them further.

What I bring

Many coaches haven't led teams, navigated organisational politics, or carried senior responsibility. I have.

Senior leadership experience: I've carried the responsibility, the visibility and the pressure myself.
Close, current work with scaling businesses: I support founders and leaders as their roles, teams and organisations grow.
Deep experience of change: organisational and workforce change, culture, LEAN and systems thinking, always with a focus on people.
Governance experience on non-profit boards, including supporting a founder-to-CEO transition.
Skilled facilitation, from leadership teams to large gatherings of people from very different backgrounds.

So we can work at both levels: who you are, and how you lead in the organisation you're actually in.

How I work

My coaching is warm, direct and practical, combining reflection with challenge. I help clients:

Gain clarity in complex situations
Understand and shift unhelpful patterns
Make confident decisions under pressure
Lead with authority, integrity and intent

Neurodiversity and leadership

I have lived experience of ADHD, and over the years I've worked with many neurodivergent leaders. I know first-hand what it's like to be highly capable while working in environments that weren't designed for how you think.

In coaching, we focus on how you work best: using your strengths deliberately, managing your energy, and navigating organisational expectations in a way that's sustainable. I'm not a specialist neurodiversity coach, so where specialist support would help, I'll say so.

Who I work with

I work across industries, drawing on extensive experience inside large, global and complex organisations alongside close work with smaller businesses as they grow. I typically work with:

Senior leaders and high-potential talent in global, complex organisations
Founders and leaders in small and medium-sized businesses as they scale
Individuals preparing for promotion or stepping into bigger roles
People navigating career change or reinvention

Some clients are self-funded; many are supported by their organisations. The aim is the same: clarity, confidence and performance that lasts.

Ready to explore how coaching or consulting could support you and your organisation?

Book a free 15-minute discovery call and let's start the conversation about how we can work together to achieve your goals.

Book a free 15-minute discovery call

Or email me at kelly@kellykeatingcoaching.com