By AWE Staff
Catherine is an award-winning Facilitator and Coach with over 20 years’ experience in leadership and wellbeing roles, with a particular interest in mental health and human connections. Her health and wellbeing programs, together with her facilitation work and keynote speaker roles have allowed her to share her experiences with a global audience.
A Business graduate from Ulster University, Catherine also has a Postgraduate qualification in Mental Health, a Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring with the ILM and holds a Health Promotion Certificate from the Open University. She has undertaken a wide range of CPD in psychology, leadership, mindfulness, and women’s health, trained in ASIST Suicide Awareness and is a Mental Health First Aider. Catherine has recently become a Certified Breath, Laugh and Relax Coach and Ikigai Coach, both accredited with the International Federation for Holistic Therapies.
Catherine is an Associate Consultant with the Health & Social Care Leadership Centre and a mentor in Women in Business supporting others to develop their skills and confidence in personal development, leadership with a focus on mindset and wellbeing.
She lives in rural Co Down with her husband and rescue dog Meg, has 3 grown up children, and is author of Wisdom of Wellbeing and host of the Wisdom of Wellbeing podcast. Catherine is Curator of the first ever TEDx event in Newry, Mourne and Down Council area, bringing speakers and audiences together with a Make It Count theme to support wellbeing connections and storytelling across the places where we live, work and learn.
Catherine’s Learn and Grow Programme for female founders in wellbeing businesses, and her Your Time to Shine Programme for female student leaders, have created new opportunities across local communities for networking, learning and work experience.