Cathryn Lloyd
Cathryn Lloyd is a facilitator, educator, coach, author and creative practitioner. She designs powerful and flexible learning experiences to people shift their thinking, gain new perspectives and create positive change.
Cathryn has extensive experience across creative industries, arts, business, management, and education. With a visual arts and design background Cathryn brings a unique multi-disciplinary learning approach to her work. She draws on a range of experiential, arts-based and action learning methodologies, theories and processes to create purposeful and engaging learning environments that invite people to explore and innovate in areas such as leadership, wellbeing, culture and team dynamics.
Cathryn’s clients include corporate, government, council, not for profit/social enterprises as well as organisational sectors such as engineering, corrections, education, human resources, community services and banking. She delivers bespoke leadership, team and development programs, workshops and coaching to help clients reach their optimum potential. Cathryn’s facilitation and coaching philosophy is based on collaboration, creativity, relationships, respect for learning and being responsive to the needs of her clients.
Facilitation and coaching are emergent processes based on deep listening, mutual trust, and sense of purpose. Cathryn draws on a range of facilitation and coaching methodologies that is bespoke and appropriate to the context and clients she works with.
Cathryn focuses her attention and professional development around team coaching and arts-based experiences to help individuals and teams creatively navigate complex adaptive systems. She is an accredited Senior Practitioner team coach and member of the EMCC – European Mentoring and Coaching Council. Underpinning Cathryn’s work is a belief that creativity is at the heart of human endeavour and a much- needed capability regardless of the work we do. She loves working with others to build creative confidence and capacity and believes that having a sense of purpose and meaning is essential to wellbeing. She loves engendering a sense of curiosity for learning and creativity in others.
“I’ve been working with Cathryn as an executive coach for many years. The benefit and value that I get from her coaching is her creative mind-set and her ability to take a completely different perspective on issues. She is open and curious and consistently prompts me with left-field questions that make me think differently. Her arts-based and aesthetic approach has been structured so that we work through particular topics including leadership, creativity and stress management but is flexible enough to deal with particular issues as they arise. I have found her highly engaging and our sessions thought-provoking and enriching.”
“Dr Cathryn has single handedly changed the way I operate as a manager/asset management specialist and change maker. Since her facilitation session, I have completely uprooted my stakeholder engagement style and became an active listener and engager. At times, Infrastructure and Assets can be a bit dry or a topic but the tools Dr C has taught me come in handy every workshop I now create. I could not recommend Dr C L enough.”
“As a relatively new, nationally distributed team, I was looking for someone to facilitate connection, shared values and an alignment in our ways of working and output. Cathryn provided just that - she is business like but fun, has an intuition about the flow and pace of a team building day, is organised, flexible, knowledgeable and professional. Cathryn takes time to understand your requirements to ensure the exercises and outcome suit the culture of the team and the individuals within it - she was pitch perfect and I wouldn’t hesitate to employ Cathryn again. This was a high quality, value for money investment in our team and we have continued to reflect on our learnings in the weeks that followed our day with Cathryn.”
“When I started my coaching sessions with Cathryn the aim was to seek her expert assistance in how to build on my current knowledge and make that leap to leadership at an executive level in state government. I had an idea in my mind of what I wanted out of the sessions and I decided to work with Cathryn as I knew that her approach would be innovative, creative and instinctual – I have done many leadership courses and workshops and I had the building blocks: I needed someone to help me put them together in a way that made sense to me and met my needs right now as a senior executive in the public service. Each coaching session was completely different – I liked the way that Cathryn let me influence discussion topics, but it was uncanny how she always had seemed to have been ready for where I was going in my thoughts and questions. This is the key to her approach that makes it, in my mind, highly effective: it is a searching kind of coaching that lets the coachee find their own way but guided by Cathryn’s instinctive ability to subtly direct and probe, asking questions that enabled me to come to my own conclusions. The sessions gave me valuable tools to ask the right questions of myself and to have the confidence again to accept the leadership challenge and to better understand my professional needs and ambitions as well as how I can work better to achieve these.”
-Testimonials from clients
Areas of Expertise
Leadership
Wellbeing
Team Culture
Team Dynamics