Catherine cochran

A wealth of experience

Catherine is a management consultant, trainer, facilitator, coach and counsellor, with over 20 years’ experience of organisational and personal change management.

Catherine spent the first ten years of her career in human resources management, gained largely within the pharmaceutical industry. She also held the position of Non-Executive Director to a major first-wave NHS Trust for six years, acting as mentor to the Human Resources Director.

She has consulted to organisations such as Kvaerner Oil and Gas, Astra, GlaxoWellcome, Bayer Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca.

Illustrative Assignments and Activities

• Design and facilitation of large group events, leadership development programmes, workshops to strengthen project leadership, and coaching of teams and key leaders to achieve a global way of working in a multi-cultural global change programme
• Coaching of senior executives to maximise effectiveness and synergies, and to link their behaviours to company values following the merger of five companies in the oil and gas industry
• Coaching a senior internal consultancy team to articulate their vision and values, and to transform their effectiveness with clients in a pharmaceutical company
• Carrying out major diagnostic audits in a number of global companies to identify levers for success following strategic change initiatives. Writing change diagnostic reports and designing strategies to deliver successful change implementation, including coaching of key teams and individuals, global workshops, and structured team interventions

Qualifications

Catherine has a BA in Social Sciences, a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management from Middlesex University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling from the London Institute of Psychosynthesis.

Individual approach

Catherine’s experience with integrating two very different company cultures following a major pharmaceutical merger convinced her that individual and group attitudes to change can be actively managed to lead towards more successful outcomes. She became committed to pursuing an in-depth training in psychological skills to complement the strategic planning of structural changes to support organisational change and development.