Success Stories

Here are some of the clients who took me on as their trusted partner to help them reach their potential.

Leaders

  • “interesting, stimulating and challenging”

    “Working with Kate is a great frank discussion about a range of things that I need to work on or have been hiding from and bringing these things into the light is valuable. Kate makes this interesting, stimulating and challenging. The neuro-psychology stuff is outstanding and leveraging that and learning from it and applying it is where I think I need to spend my time.  Frequent sessions has allowed me to subtly grow and shift my perspective and thinking on a range of things.”

    Brett Wiskar, National Innovation Manager at Australian Catholic University

  • “Will help you be your best self and leader”

    “Kate is a very insightful coach who gets the most out of you with a positive leadership framework. Kate has a fantastic ability in every interaction, either individual or team coaching. I highly recommend Kate as a leadership coach who creates a safe, positive and challenging environment that will help you be your best self and leader.”

    Michael Strachan,

    Head of Strategic Partnerships at Magentus

  • "getting our leadership program off the ground"

    “Working with Zenith Journey and Kate has improved the speed of getting our leadership program off the ground. It gave us the frameworks we needed to make a customisable programme to meet the needs and goals for our emerging leaders. Not to mention a enjoyable and fun experience.”

    Belinda Foreman, 

    People and Culture, XPON Technologies Group

Founders + Small Business

  • “Kate has had a significant impact on the way I work with others and lead”

    “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Kate from Zenith Journey over the past 6 years, both in a 1:1 coaching capacity and leadership programs. Kate has had a significant impact on the way I work with others and lead, with in-depth insights and simple visual explanations which satisfy my curiosity for a scientific explanation and learning visually. Kate always challenges me, keeps me accountable, and leaves me pondering at the end of the sessions. I always look forward to them.”

    Rachael Hedges,

    CEO at RMH Consulting

  • “Kate makes online learning fun”

    “Kate has presented a couple of workshops for our community and each time we've received amazing feedback from the attendees. Kate makes online learning fun by using a range of visuals, games, prizes, analogies and more. Her presentations are always engaging and her knowledge on all areas of leadership paired with her knowledge in positive psychology are invaluable. We've already got more workshops planned with Kate because I know she'll deliver over and above and I know she'll blow the minds of our attendees too.”

    Leanne Webber,

    Owner/Director of The Founders Team

  • "Made stepping into the CEO role of my business simple and fun"

    “I initially decided to work with Kate because hiring always feels like a high-pressure decision. I knew she would have a way to make it simple! I didn't realise that I was stuck - I was still struggling with what type of business I wanted. I’ve now made decisions that are right for me, and made stepping into the CEO role of my business simple and fun. I’ve got my team sorted, and also what I want my team to look like in the long, long, long term. And that feels great!”

    Charlotte Isaac,
    CEO and Founder

  • "Insightful input and guidance"

    My experience with Kate's Executive Coaching sessions was progressive and productive. She’s great at goal setting, motivation techniques, communication tools for the team, confidentiality, and action planning. Throughout our sessions, I really enjoyed the ability to through challenges and pleasantly surprised by the insightful input and guidance she provided.

    Pete Lomas,
    CEO and Founder,  Not Just a Patch

Team Workshops and Facilitation

  • “Kate makes online learning fun”

    “Kate has presented a couple of workshops for our community and each time we've received amazing feedback from the attendees. Kate makes online learning fun by using a range of visuals, games, prizes, analogies and more. Her presentations are always engaging and her knowledge on all areas of leadership paired with her knowledge in positive psychology are invaluable. We've already got more workshops planned with Kate because I know she'll deliver over and above and I know she'll blow the minds of our attendees too.”

    Leanne Webber,

    Owner/Director of The Founders Team

  • "MC for our multi-day virtual festival"

    “Kate was the MC for our multi-day virtual festival, and made it fun while keeping the audience informed and engaged.  She has a lovely manner in dealing with speakers and making them feel comfortable and valued prior (in the green room) and during the presentations. As things changed in the moment, Kate was able to quickly adapt and keep her confident and warm screen presence.  Her ability to graphically record the content during the sessions was an added bonus.”

    Jaclyn Knight,
    THI Urban Change Festival

  • "always opens our eyes to new and wonderful concepts"

    “What an incredible 2 days spent face to face with our national leadership team in Brisbane this week!!  Our leadership sessions always bring out the best in our team with valuable insights, strategy discussions and this time round, a 3 hour culture workshop conducted by the always terrific Kate Peardon.  Kate always opens our eyes to new and wonderful concepts that really resonate with our exceptional team.  Looking forward to what’s next at Axis!

    Axis Occupational Health and Wellbeing
    Leadership Team

  • "the best recommendation I have ever received"

    “We sought out a professional executive coach to assist, advise and coach our Executive Team. Kate came highly recommended from a colleague, and has become one of… if not the best… recommendations I have ever received. Kate has an amazing ability to bring together leaders with strong and different views and unite them behind a common strategy. Kate’s coaching, mentoring, informing and challenging has helped the development of the team with how we work and communicate together. Kate has an engaging facilitation style and draws on her deep leadership experience to ensure everyone feels heard and included.”

    Emma Selwood,

    Chief People Officer, Genie Solutions

University of Sydney public courses, where Kate is a Course Writer and Lecturer in Leadership.

  • “The facilitator was very engaging, warm and encouraging. Whilst not all of the content was relevant to our area. The facilitator was very quick to adapt to more relevant material keeping the group engaged and the course flowing very smoothly.”

    - Corporate workshop participant

  • “Kate is one of the best facilitators I've come across. Her approach is high level and she dove into topics per her plan/while being very sensitive to our group and how we were interacting with her. The group was a mix of experiences, and Kate did a great job of engaging with everyone - not just the most talkative. Her topics and principles were relevant not only to our cohort, but folks of varying job types and levels.

    The time allocated to the course was perfect - not too long/not too short. The materials (workbook, presentation and course handbook) are all amazing and I will refer to these as I see through my goals and actions out of today. Thankyou.”

    - Virtual workshop participant

  • “Kate is an excellent presenter and facilitator. I thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot from the course, tapping areas where I had not explored. Thank you Kate.“

    - Leadership course participant

  • “Kate was extremely lovely and welcoming. Unlike other courses I have taken the conversation did not seem forced and was genuinely engaging, I like how we didn't go through the course bit by bit but spent longer time on subjects the group was more interested in.“

    - Virtual leadership course participant

  • “Kate was engaging and kept our attention even though we varied in experience.“

    - Corporate leaders course participant

  • “Kate Peardon was a great facilitator! She was relaxed, patient, friendly and open. She did a great job listening and understanding the needs of the group and adapting the course content to provide the best outcome for attendees. The groups small size was perfect because it allowed Kate to provide a personalised approach, ensured each attendee contributed to the discussions and was able to learn from each other. Thank you.“

    - Leadership program participant

  • “The facilitator made everyone feel comfortable to be able to share their views and ideas. Kate was very engaging.”

    - Virtual workshop participant

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