CFO and Executive Mentoring

Catherine works with leaders and aspiring leaders who are tired of lacking confidence in fulfilling their potential, are feeling overwhelmed, who worry about not having enough presence and impact, or understandably don’t know what they don’t know. They are ready to positively thrive and be the best they can be, think and act strategically, communicate clearly and confidently create additional value.

She achieves this by sharing her leadership strategies and tools with you from her real-life board experience as well as using her intuition to guide her clients towards being the true influential, impactful, and fulfilled leader they want to be, and their organisation needs them to be.

Catherine will help you to see your own potential more clearly, build your confidence and give you the right strategies and tools so you can achieve what you want, and invite lasting and sustainable success into your life.

Clarity of self, personal direction, goals, actions, strengths, and success.

Connection to knowledge, experience, advice, networks, support, and a belief in you.

Confidence in yourself to realise your potential.

Your potential starts with you and grows with support.

Catherine’s philosophy in life is to keep teaching through real-life situations, stories, and experiences, with open and honest support and challenge. As a mentor she will be your trusted friend, advisor, thinking partner, sounding board, facilitator, and challenger.

Open your awareness to open possibility.

Catherine loves mentoring and wants to keep sharing what she learns so you can learn new ways of thinking, doing and being to expand what’s possible for you to achieve. Awareness and acknowledgement of where you are now is the starting point for future growth. See what's possible for you today.

Empower yourself to be yourself and believe in your ability to achieve anything you desire.

Catherine is passionate about inspiring you to grow and flourish by supporting you to enhance your confidence, self-belief, and knowledge so you can embrace opportunities, and make a valuable contribution to your organisation whilst enjoying the journey of progression.

Accelerate your progression and results.

She will supportively challenge you to uncover and see the potential you have. If she chooses to work with you, she will already see your potential and will do everything she can to get you to see and feel it and help you reach it with relevant insight, discussion, tools and exercises. There is a cost to staying where you are, a cost to not progressing as fast as you would like, or not making the impact you could.

In the right mindset you will be inspired to grow. If you see your value, you will believe in your value, and others will believe in you.

Let Catherine help you reach your own place of success and contentment, with the right skills, mindset, and belief in yourself to excel and to focus on how you want to feel. With this mindset you will have a positive knock-on effect on others and increase the potential of your team.

An investment for yourself and your organisation.

Invest in yourself to learn more, close any skill or competency gaps, feel, think, and act differently, hold yourself more confidently, influence decisions and drive change. If you are serious about creating change in your life to generate more success, it is powerful to have a mentor that can see, understand and highlight opportunities for you to progress and experience true, quantum leaps in your goals and projects.

Many successful people attribute part of their professional success to having a mentor (Forbes). Mentoring supports people to understand more comprehensively the requirements of their role and the skills needed to deliver at their best, develop their leadership skills, enhance their relationship management skills and achieve performance goals, delivering a greater, more consistent, and often quicker contribution to their organisation and better outcomes. People who receive mentoring feel valued and supported on their growth journey and are therefore likely to stay for longer, so their knowledge is retained and shared.

Being a leader can at times feel like a lonely place to be - having a lot of responsibility and decisions to be made, lost in your own thoughts and not always able to express them. Technology and societal shifts have enabled leaders to work more remotely, which has many benefits but also results in less of human to human interaction. Mentoring creates the personal connection that people can thrive from and provides the focused attention, safe space and reflection time to support people through times of change and evolution. For an organisation, mentoring can support people to settle and deliver in new roles quicker, and support the diversity agenda by increasing the confidence and competence of talent to reach their potential and provide the organisation with diverse thought and experience.

Big changes happen when people have the confidence to do more, speak up, have an opinion, believe in their perspectives, remember that their view is as important as anyone else’s. To be confident is also to be vulnerable; to ask for help, to question, to be different.

As a leader or aspiring leader, you want to….

● Be respected for your commitment, loyalty, and contribution

● Be more confident and feel confident in your ability to deliver at that level (reduce imposter syndrome)

● Contribute fully with the relevant skills and attributes needed to fulfill and deliver the role successfully and to the best of your ability

● Increase your presence, gravitas, and visibility

● Think and act strategically

● Build and manage relationships internally and with external stakeholders

● Communicate with impact and increase your influence

● Understand how to navigate management and board dynamics and more difficult conversations

● Develop your network and resources

● Understand complex business scenarios and contribute effectively to operational performance and strategic decision making

● Develop and manage a high performing team and keep them inspired and motivated

● Prioritise the most important tasks to avoid feelings of overwhelm

● Stay true to who you are and thrive, feeling energised, fulfilled, and happy in your work and life

Outcomes

With Catherine’s support there are many benefits available to you:

• You will become an inspirational and impactful leader that others want to follow, the best version of you

• You will develop the courage and confidence to be yourself and deliver to the best of your ability. With confidence comes equality, clarity, a sense of belonging and the ability to be the best version of yourself, believing in what you can achieve

• You will close any knowledge gaps on the skills, competencies, and attributes needed to fulfill the requirements of the role

• You will accelerate your progression to a higher level because you will realise your worth and value, and develop the confidence and presence to be seen and heard

• You will become a valuable and trusted strategic business partner

• You will offer better judgement, analysis, decision making skills and the ability to provide an objective, challenging and supportive role to your Executive colleagues and the Board

• You will work effectively in a team with other management or Board members

• You will be able to challenge constructively while respecting the roles, views and feelings of others

• You will be able to embrace and drive change and support growth initiatives

• You will become a clear and powerful communicator

• You will be able to express views succinctly and effectively, making reasoned and well thought-through contributions.

• You will become a better listener and clear thinker with high emotional intelligence

• You will develop and identify the mindset, routines and habits that keep you on track and energised for success

• You will develop a strong self-awareness by being honest with how you currently feel and what actions are needed to move you forwards to who you want to be and how you want to feel

• You will embrace who you truly are and identify the unique skills, experience and successes you bring that others will value

• You will become a higher performer with clarity, confidence, energy, empathy, and a positive productive mindset

• You will feel more purposeful, fulfilled, and joyful in all aspects of your life

• You will be able to support and help others to grow. Mentoring is a positive flow, the knowledge and support you receive can be passed on to positively impact others

How

I will provide you with 1:1 mentoring and support from an experienced CFO/board member who has the knowledge and expertise to give guidance to you on achieving your ambition, building your softer skills, and to be a more strategically and commercially focused inspiring leader, as well as on becoming a better version of yourself through a process of:

• Discovering and working with your areas of strength and areas of development.

• Discussing ways to overcome any barriers to your success, including how you can think differently and further develop a leadership mindset

• Providing different perspectives when thinking through real-life issues and challenges.

• Unlocking meaning and understanding by allowing you time and reflection to explore your thinking.

• Improving your knowledge and confidence to take the next best step and fully perform to your full potential in your role

• Increasing your ability to see what’s possible and feel like you are thriving, and your value is fully recognised and rewarded.

Financial Business Mentoring

Creating and managing the financial resources to look after yourself, your people, your organisation, and your community, enabling you to serve your customers and uncover opportunities for greater value creation.

As your Financial Business Mentor, Catherine will bring all the financial, strategic, and commercial experience, skills, and knowledge that she has to support you to achieve your desired objectives and outcomes.

Clarity in your numbers and cashflow.

Connection of commercial strategy and people to financial outcome and business success.

Confidence in the financial control and sustainability of your business.

As a Founder or CEO of a small to medium sized organisation, imagine:

• sleeping soundly at night knowing that the value you are creating is secure

• feeling in control of the financial side of your business

• having time to keep focused on the customer and future customer needs

• keeping your sight on the strategic direction and big picture view

• employing effective risk management processes to reduce compliance exposure

and you can,

• have an experienced CFO as a trusted partner to support the achievement of your vision and reduce risk

• have someone to support and challenge you; a professional sounding board for your ideas and how best they can be implemented.

Catherine can support you to understand and create the:

• financial foundation for success;

• financial strategy and objectives; and

• financial plan to make your business financially sustainable for the long-term so you can support yourself and your ability to support your clients. Identifying profit and cash initiatives and evaluating investment opportunities.

A financial plan is vital to success and creating a sustainable business. You must understand the financial side of your business; your income streams, pricing, and margins; which costs are necessary to run the business; the cash cycle; and how you can reinvest or get funding to support growth.

Outcomes

Investing in an experienced CFO will bring you many benefits:

● You can plan for and implement growth with a comprehensive understanding of the financial position and availability of cash

● Financial planning and forecasting to support your desired outcomes in a financially sustainable way for the long-term

● You can get funding if the business strategy aligns to longer-term sustainability of earnings

● You can grow successfully, seamlessly, and profitably

● You can run your business with insight from relevant and timely management information

● Your board will get the financial data and information it needs

● Your business will have a solid financial foundation to protect your business from unnecessary risks

● Investment decision support to identify what choices would make the most impact on the future, where the effort should be focused and when, and whether the right people are in the right roles to maximise success.

● An experienced CFO can bring additional value on any exit by focusing on how profitability can be improved.

● Mentoring your Finance Leader to be confident in their own potential and their own value so they will uncover opportunities in your business and unlock further value.