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Juggling a family and career helped her to
appreciate the challenge of achieving work life balance. And her long
standing meditation practice provided clarity about how she could bring
these elements together to create a unique and meaningful business. Kate
works with each client individually to define what success means to
them, to help them get clear about their core personal values and to
create a picture of their ‘ideal’ life. She believes that life should
provide a blend of experiences and include time for friendship, fun,
good health, exercise and love as well as work that inspires you. Her
strength lies in her ability to connect with people quickly and help
identify the ‘blocks’ that prevent them from achieving their goals. Her
down-to-earth approach and her desire to keep the coaching process fun
have resulted in amazing outcomes for over two hundred clients to date.
At Total Balance, Kate continues to draw on her business experience,
offering small business coaching programs designed to identify and
overcome the barriers to success. Kate provides career, leadership and
personal development coaching as well as stress management and work life
balance programs. Kate speaks at conferences about work life balance and
stress management.
In 2003, meeting the demands of a growing number of clients concerned
about the lack of 'corporate wellbeing', Kate established
Corporate
Chillout. With an experienced and capable group of professional
trainers, Corporate Chillout now provides an extensive range of
wellbeing and team building programs.
Kate is quoted regularly in the media as an expert in the field of
stress management and work life balance. Recent coverage includes
appearances in The Age, Sunday Life, Sunday Telegraph, body+soul,
Australian Women’s Weekly, Financial Review, Good Medicine and Cleo.
Kate has also appeared live in a number of radio interviews and was
featured in 2004 in a segment on a national television program about coaching. Kate's expertise as a
work life balance coach is on display at
Flying Solo, an online resource
brimming with small business advice.
Read Kate's articles here.
Kate is a Certified Professional Coach, graduating from International
Coach Academy. She is a member of ICF and is currently one of three
professionals in Victoria to have achieved the PCC (Professional
Certified Coach) accreditation. Kate also holds a Certificate IV in
Workplace Assessment and Training. She is also the resident lifestyle
coach and meditation teacher at the beautiful
Aurora Spa Retreat
in St
Kilda, Melbourne.
Kate currently resides in Melbourne with her partner of twenty years and
their two teenage daughters. When she's not with clients, you'll find
her spending time with her family, writing, reading, cooking, walking
along the beach, taking photos or visiting a gallery.
She also specialises in helping clients resolve work life balance
issues. If you wish to book Kate to speak please contact us to discuss.
For more about Kate, visit her
blog.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
"Kate has helped me a lot to firstly see my goals more clearly and
secondly achieve them by breaking them down into manageable chunks. She
is very talented at 'listening' between the lines and gives easy to
follow advice on how to move forward in life. Her positive feedback and
constructive criticism have helped me stay on track when I was lacking
motivation. Thank you, Kate, for helping me to see areas of my life in a
different perspective and showing me how to work on my goals in order to
feel more in control of my life." WK, Melbourne
"I had decided to see Kate for coaching during a stage when I was
unhappy with the way my life was progressing. I was stuck in a job I no
longer cared for and had lost direction with what I wanted and in fact
liked about myself and my career. I had become anxious and full of self
doubt. By slowly breaking down what I wanted to achieve in long and
short term goals I was able to tackle (and continue to) each point.
After two months of coaching I have found a job in an area that has more
careers prospects and I am now tackling larger issues of friendships and
relationships. My anxiety dissipated and my self esteem improved. Kate
doesn't provide the answers for you, just the skills to help you build
the blocks to taking control of your life." KM, Melbourne
"Working with Kate was an absolute pleasure. She helped me to focus
on where I want to go with my career. Kate also worked with me on
balancing all the other areas of my life. She taught me tools of how to
take small steps to achieve my goals so that I wouldn't feel so
overwhelmed. Working with Kate is liking having a best friend who
actually does have the right answers. I look forward to the newsletter
every month and I feel so inspired by the "Revive" quotations each week.
Thanks Kate!" Kel-Anne Brandt, Singer
"Kate James is an inspiration! She has the natural talent of being able
to read a person like a book. During my time as a client of Kate's I
found myself in a situation of blaming someone else for my problems and
Kate was able to read both the situation and myself perfectly by gently
prodding me to address the situation in a way that achieved the desired
result for both parties. I want to thank her for her compassionate
nature and her gift of understanding what was required by backing her
intuition and her judgement. Kate truly knows people." Mark Durkin, National Account Manager, Bolle Australia
“Coaching has helped me to identify what I really want out of life and
to concentrate on my strengths rather than my weaknesses. Every human
being suffers from self-doubt at some point - coaching is the quickest
way for me to discard such thoughts and simply just get on with it.
Having regular coaching sessions makes me accountable to someone on a
regular basis. Together we create a "To Do" list and assign realistic
deadlines. Before coaching these deadlines were rarely met." Lindy O'Halloran, SAP Regenerative Skin Care
"I firmly believe that the decision of attending a few life coaching
sessions has not only eased me through the difficult period after my
divorce, it has saved a fledgling new relationship that I approached
with insecurity and that I would have allowed to be damaged by my bitter
experiences and resulting insecurities, had it not been for the very
positive outlook and confidence that life coaching helped me gain.
The sessions with Kate have had an incredible impact, with little actual
advice from Kate, but a lot of guiding and frameworks to help me think
through things. By asking all the right questions, she helped me find
all the answers myself, which were therefore immediately internalised.
I believe that as a result of life coaching, I’ve made the best
decisions ever, however bold they may appear to the outside world, I’m
happier than I’ve ever been, I feel more loved than I ever have, and I
am more capable to truly love my partner because of a stronger
confidence, trust and joy of life. I have spent over $2500 on
relationship counselling with people who claimed to be therapists, that
led to my divorce and most depressed period in my life, whilst I spent
around $400 on life coaching, which has allowed me to take the
opportunities to become happier than I’ve ever been in my life.
As a bonus, I believe my partner also benefits a lot from the fact that
I went to life coaching, as I’m more loving, more happy, more aware of
his emotions and desires, and more relaxed about anything that crosses
our path, which in return makes him also more loving, more happy etc
etc. All this has had a huge impact on our time together, our sex life,
and our shared vision of the future." RR, Melbourne
“The main benefit of the coaching sessions for me has been: Being able
to set goals, and to do that with someone that does not have a hidden
agenda and is objective to those goals. After setting the goals, the
next benefit is being accountable for your actions.
I started coaching four months ago because I was a bit lost and
unfocused. Coaching has taught me lots of skills to apply to my everyday
life such as: improving my personal relationships, breaking down my big
goal into a series of smaller ones to be completed a little at a time
a...Now, 4 months on, I feel so much more in control of my life, and my
confidence is gaining daily!” Renée Austin, Renée Austin The Wedding Planner, Melbourne
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