How we make a difference is through our intuitive, supportive and positive coaching for individuals and groups and our creative training programmes that reach the hearts-and-minds of the whole business.
Kate and Kapow Coaching’s Team
I’m Kate Flory, founder of Kapow Coaching. Kapow Coaching was set up in 2002 primarily to deliver Co-Active Coaching and various coaching and leadership training, either solo or alongside other hand-picked specialist trainers and professional coaches. Kapow Coaching’s certified professionals also share a passion for coaching, developing, and inspiring others. Our joint expertise and training lie in areas of Co-Active Coaching, PQ Coaching, NLP, leadership, team coaching and systems, team dynamics, business management theory, positive coaching psychology along with a variety of psychometric profiling tools.
Since starting, we’ve matured into an organisation that offers inner professional development via Coaching, Leadership and Mental Fitness. Supporting individuals, teams and organisations to improve their communication and effectiveness, and to reduce their stress levels by improving their leadership and wellbeing resilience. We believe our coaching and training solutions have an immediate and positive impact on individuals, teams, the organisations as well as the wider community.
Let me tell you how Kapow Coaching came about
My passion and interest in personal development and self-coaching started in my early 20’s – getting me out of some tricky situations from failed relationships, family disputes as well as illness. At a time when I felt I had nothing and no-one, I quickly realised I had myself, and that was enough. Teaching me early on that there’s always a solution – you just have to ask the right question and be willing to listen to the answer, whether you like it or not! I learned that you can do it on your own, but with a coach, you can get there faster, more lightly, and far deeper than you ever expected on your own.
Difficulties in my life have taught me resilience, the power of inner belief, self-motivation, getting to really know myself, never giving up, and the power of choice. This is probably why Silver Lining, Inspiration, and Curiosity are still my guiding business and personal values.
I’m passionate about the impact coaching and coaching-based conversations have on people’s lives and souls. As a coach, I believe that everyone should experience coaching. I know that managers of people and projects can become curious and begin to have coach-based conversations at work to engage, motivate and provide a safe space for others to be themselves. For me, leadership starts with self, the Inner Leader, and that everyone is a leader, they just need to recognise their leadership positions at work and at home. Having a positive mental mindset is key to not only happiness and wellbeing, but also productivity and building better and healthier relationships.
Now, let’s meet some of Kapow Coaching’s team….
KATE FLORY – Confidence & Mental Fitness Coach
Founder of Kapow Coaching
Kate is an experienced Confidence and Mental Fitness Coach, Leadership and Coaching Skills trainer, facilitator and NLP Practitioner, specialising in inspirational head-and-heart coaching and creating powerful, experientially based coaching training programmes.
KAPOW COACHING SPECIALISMS
I love coaching senior business leaders to build their confidence and wellbeing, and who are looking to connect with their inner leader, by tapping into the passion for supporting and developing their team, regaining their confidence and sense of direction, and getting ready for the next chapter of their career. I am passionate about creating a coaching culture by training managers to have coach-like conversations and supporting teams to work more collaboratively and focussed, within a more transparent, healthy and supportive environment.
I am passionate about bringing leadership from the ground up into an organisation, as I inspire people to step into their 5 leadership positions of Inner and Sensing Leader, Leader Behind, Beside and In Front, by giving them the confidence to step up to role of leader and step back from always leading. I have a knack for creating engaging, participative and practical training programmes.
I am driven to build personal and corporate Mental Fitness by moving people from a negative to a positive mindset and helping them to build up personal resilience and wellbeing, using simple and practical PQ tools.
QUALIFICATIONS RELEVANT TO COACHING, LEADERSHIP & MENTAL FITNESS
- Positive Intelligence Certified Mental Fitness Coach (CPQC)
- ICF Accredited coach PCC
- Action Learning Facilitator Training
- Intent-Based Leadership Pioneer training (IBL)
- Certified Professional Coactive Coach (CPCC) with the Co-Active Training Institute
- Mindfulness at Work practitioner
- Investors in People training
- MIT: u.lab – Leading from the emerging future
- EQ-i Certification practitioner
- Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner
- Brief, Solution-Focused Therapy
- Mindfields College (Human Givens Institute)
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A COACH & TRAINER
- Compassionate
- Challenging
- Calm
GWYNNETH REES KENNY – Executive Coach
Gwynneth is an experienced Senior Executive Coach, Coach- supervisor, ILM Coaching Trainer and a generalist HR manager/OD consultant, specialising in organisation, leadership, and management development.
KAPOW COACHING SPECIALISMS
My earliest encounter with coaching was a career-changing experience for me when I discovered that just by making small changes to my behaviour – how I was ‘being’ – I could create a very different, positive and beneficial impact for the myself and those around me. A few years later I was leading coaching training sessions with first line managers in a large FTSE financial services company. Watching people try out their own newly acquired coaching skills and reporting back on the changes it had brought about with their team members made me realise that I wanted to do more of this rich work which would help people develop more effective and productive relationships at work.
QUALIFICATIONS RELATED TO COACHING & LEADERSHIP
- Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching (CRR Global)
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development
- ICF PCC qualified coach
- Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching Supervision (Coaching Supervision Academy)
- Certified Professional Coactive Coach (CPCC) with the Co-Active Training Institute
- British Psychological Society Certificate in Occupational Testing levels A & B (15FQ and 16PF; MBTI; TMSDI Team Management Profile)
- Postgraduate diploma: Personnel Management
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A COACH & TRAINER
- Trusted
- Intuitive
- Encouraging
MOON LI – Leadership and Career Coach
Moon regularly works with high-achieving professionals to overcome imposter syndromes, take ownership of their minds, and create a life of purpose, balance and impact.
KAPOW SPECIALISMS –
With 15 years of work experience as a B2B sales executive, I’ve always been passionate about culture, people and excellency. I worked on cultural bridging projects with large organizations such as Citroën and China General Nuclear Power Group and am experienced in legal consultation for building businesses in China. From 2017 on, I went through extensive coaching training and credentialing process and am now an accredited coach with the International Coach Federation as well Positive Intelligence. I regularly work with high-achieving individuals and management teams to stand firm in their leadership positions, through coaching, training and facilitating.
I focus NOT on the “issues” my clients bring but on their WHOLE being. Combining various exercises such as embodiment, visualization, and reflection, we explore the 3 “C” of the clients’ situation:1) Clarity- Cultivating self-awareness and clear insight.2) Confidence- Building a toolbox that enables decision and change-making. 3)Contribution- Increasing positive impact and sustaining lasting transformation.
QUALIFICATIONS RELEVANT TO COACHING AND MENTAL FITNES
- ICF Associate Certified Coach
- Certified Positive Intelligence Coach – Positive Intelligence (One of the first 22 coaches to be certified worldwide)
- “Gift of Coaching Collective” by ICF
- Leading From the Emerging Future by MITx
- “The Power of Presence” by Coaches Rising
- Professional Coaching Training -Co-Active Training Institute
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A COACH AND TRAINER:
- Grounded
- Joyous
- Creative
LYNNE O’NEIL – Leadership and Wellbeing Coach
Lynne is an experience certified and accredited professional coach, team coach and facilitator, trainer, and yoga teacher specialising in wellness, organisational culture, living values and managing mindset.
With a background in design, education, and business advice, Lynne has been coaching individuals, teams, entrepreneurs, senior managers and leaders in the public, private, creative, cultural, corporate, and academic sectors.
KAPOW COACHING SPECIALISMS
Lynne’s lightbulb moment which started her coaching journey 20 years ago, was witnessing a client in a business development meeting, getting their lightbulb moment. From then on she knew the magical coaching space was where she belonged.
Her approach to coaching focuses on the whole person, allowing space for individuals and teams to release and explore, supported with a toolkit of robust evidence-based models. Her yoga and counselling training has added to her practice, bringing a somatic, trauma informed coaching approach when required.
QUALIFICATIONS RELEVANT TO COACHING, & LEADERSHIP
- ICF PCC qualified coach
- Certified Professional Coactive Coach (CPCC) with the Co-Active Training Institute
- Accredited Executive Coach/Member (Association of Coaching)/Member
- Systemic Team Coach Certificate – Association of Executive Coaching
- RD1st – Relational Dynamic Coach
- Global Disc certified trainer
- NLP Practitioner – Richard Bandler/Paul McKenna
- Certificate in Counselling Skills (COSCA)
- 200 hour qualified yoga teacher
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A COACH AND TRAINER
- Wonderfully creative
- Creating clarity
- Supportive
DUNCAN SKELTON – Executive coach to curious leaders
Duncan spent 25 years in the tech sector creating and launching leading edge technologies. He worked in startups, experienced an acquisition and built large engineering groups from the ground up inside Google in New York. He was part of the team that launched the world’s first smartphone and created that market. For 6 years he lead engineering teams alternating working remotely 1 week from home then 1 week in the office 250 miles away. At Google he took on a passion side project as a front of room leader on their flagship internal leadership development program “Edge”, an intense 3-day experiential offsite for emerging leaders.
Duncan’s work as a tech leader and since 2018 as a full time executive coach, is informed by his experiences of 25 years as a rock climber, including leading on a year-long overland climbing expedition across South America and North America.
KAPOW COACHING SPECIALISMS
Duncan invites leaders to be authentic, and vulnerable, with conscious leadership that frames his work. He invites participation, and creates the conditions in which people connect with purpose and access their own innate passion and motivation. This demands leaders expand their leadership range, reaching more often into areas of discomfort.
Leaders set the tone. As a practitioner of Stakeholder-Centered coaching Duncan invites leaders to model transparency, humility and commitment to growth by involving your stakeholders in your ongoing experimentation.
QUALIFICATIONS RELEVANT TO COACHING, & LEADERSHIP
- ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
- Certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder-Centered Coach/Team Coach
- ILM L7 Executive Coach
- GLA 360 (Global Leadership Assessment)
- Certified Practitioner – The Fearless Organization Scan (FOS)
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A COACH & TRAINER
- Playful
- Provacative
- Compassionate
CLIVE MAXHEATH – Public Sector Executive Coach & Men’s Life Coach
Having coached for over 10 years Clive is a solid allrounder, operating as a public sector executive coach, men’s life coach and American football mindset fitness coach.
KAPOW COACHING SPECIALISMS
Clive has a 15-year background working in policing and appreciates what it means to perform under pressure. For example he spent three years ‘on call’ for life at risk, and fast-time response policing operations.
As an executive coach he ‘serves those that serve us’ in public sector organisations. Primarily in policing and education.
Channelling a passion for male psychology and health generally, as a men’s life coach he works with gentleman desiring a more balanced approach to life.
Hugely sports passionate he operates as a mindset fitness coach for his local American Football team. Clive is an advocate for mental fitness practices and being pro-active around mental matters. Clive keeps a close eye on technological developments in coaching and is currently in the process of integrating VR (Virtual Reality) approaches into his practice.
His life philosophy is called ‘Allroundership’. This quote summarises his approach – “Plan life as if to live to a wise old age, but live each day mindful there is no guarantee of tomorrow”
QUALIFICATIONS RELEVANT TO COACHING, & LEADERSHIP
- ICF Accredited coach PCC
- Positive Intelligence Certified Mental Fitness Coach (CPQC)
- Co-Active Training Institute – Core Curriculum
- ORSC (Organisational, relationships, and systems coaching) – Fundamentals.
- Male Psychology
- Men’s Group Facilitator
- Suicide awareness
- Trauma Preparedness
- USA – American Football Flag Certification
- NLP Foundation Diploma
- Prince’s Trust Youth Team leader and Mentor
- Degree in Management Science (2.1)
- Stay-at-home dad (training completed on the job)
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A COACH & TRAINER
- Focused
- Balanced
- Positive
GORDON LAIRD – Psychotherapist & Trainer
Gordon is an experienced corporate coach, facilitator, consultant, and registered psychotherapist with a strong background in leadership and team effectiveness, organisational change and development.
KAPOW COACHING SPECIALISMS
He brings insights and perspectives from over 20 years of rich experience in HR leadership and SME roles within global blue chip organisations where he worked with senior leaders from diverse cultures, teams, and emerging talent to transform businesses in response to ever-changing demands and opportunities.
Gordon has a counselling and psychotherapy practice with over 600 hours of experience helping clients bring about change in their lives and improve their wellbeing.
QUALIFICATIONS RELEVANT TO COACHING, THERAPY & LEADERSHIP
- Intent-Based Leadership Pioneer training (IBL)
- Certification in the Dimensions talent development framework (School for CEOs)
- Certified in Hogan & High-Performance Assessment psychometrics
- Certified in Human Capital Strategy (with the Human Capital Institute)
- Professionally qualified coach (Association for Coaching)
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Registered psychotherapist (BACP)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching ILM Level 7
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy (Distinction)
3 WORDS DESCRIBING ME AS A THERAPIST & TRAINER
- Curious
- Adaptable
- Empathetic
Our Skills – Our Core Skills are Personal and Executive Coaching for individuals and teams, Coaching Supervision, Team Coaching, Leadership Training on The Being and Doing of Leadership, and leadership support and Coaching Training through Curious Conversations for managers and Counselling Support.
Whether you call it business, executive, leadership or simply coaching – our qualified coaches help to facilitate changes in behaviour, attitude and thinking for groups and individuals. Believing that positive transformation can come from alternative thinking as well as active action.
The Being & Doing of Leadership recognises the 5 positions of leadership that anyone at any level has access to – and how everyone in an organisation can realise their full leadership potential. The Being & Doing of Leadership encourages more confident, decisive and focused people, helping create more engaged and profitable teams.
Building our Mental Fitness for improved resilience and wellbeing is key for improved relationships, greater work effectiveness and overall happiness. We can learn how to move from a negative to a positive mindset in a matter of minutes.