If Your Change Efforts Keep Stalling, it’s Time to Look in the One Place Most Organisations Avoid: Unconscious Leadership Behaviour.
I help leadership teams surface the patterns of control, fear, and misalignment that quietly sabotage transformation—so they can lead real, lasting change from within.
I'm Kathy Coleman.
For over 35 years, I've delivered large-scale transformation across the UK for some of the most well-known brands in finance, retail, and industry. But what really drives me is understanding what’s underneath failed change efforts: the unconscious leadership behaviours that keep organisations stuck.
Change doesn’t fail because of poor strategy or bad systems. It fails because of how leaders behave when uncertainty hits—and what they can’t yet see in themselves.
I now work with courageous leadership teams ready to see differently, lead differently, and surface the habits that quietly hold everything back.
If You’re Leading Change, But It Feels Like Pushing Uphill, This Is Why
You have capable people. You have resources. You've probably even brought in consultants. And yet, you're still stuck with endless meetings that create no traction, leadership misalignment and resistance that derails progress.
If you're like most leadership teams, the issue isn't a lack of tools or commitment. It's the unconscious behaviours driving how change is led—hidden habits built around control, fear, and outdated assumptions.
That’s what derails transformation. And that’s what I surface.
This Isn’t Change Management.
It’s Conscious Change Leadership.
I don’t impose change models. I don’t install systems. And I don’t “fix” your people.
What I do is far more foundational—and far more effective:
I help leaders surface the unconscious behaviours that derail change.
I challenge long-held beliefs that feel safe—but are costing progress.
I help you shift the way your leadership team thinks, behaves, and works together—so you stop relying on external, top-down models that create resistance and start building real capability from within.
How My Approach Delivers What Others Can't
I help leadership teams do what most consultancies won’t even touch:
Surface the unconscious behaviours that derail change
Unlearn outdated habits and beliefs
Transform the way they think, decide, and lead—so the organisation evolves with them
Because here’s what I’ve seen across 35 years of high-stakes transformation:
It’s not strategy that derails change—it’s fear.
It’s not a lack of talent—it’s a lack of trust.
It’s not systems or plans—it’s unconscious behaviours
My work gets under the surface.
It’s about awareness. Ownership. And the leadership maturity to face what's really going on—so something new can take its place.
What I Offer—and Why It Works
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1-Day Experience
The Conscious Leadership Experience
A 1-day immersive session that reveals exactly why your change efforts keep stalling—and what it will take to lead differently.
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1-Year Transformation
Conscious Leadership Transformation
A deep, hands-on partnership that builds adaptive capability across your entire leadership team. We work side-by-side to unlearn, embed, and evolve how you lead—by surfacing the unconscious behaviours blocking change.
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1-Month Awakening
Conscious Leadership Awakening
A powerful short-term engagement for leadership teams ready to shift their mindset, build alignment, and lead from clarity in complex, high-pressure environments.
What Others Say
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Ken Leung
Interim Transformation Design Director
"Kathy is a strong leader who understands what it takes to help an organisation make a step-change in the way they operate, having led numerous, and challenging, transformation programmes. She is a consummate professional and an inspiring leader, who is able to communicate a clear direction, maintain a cool head and make the hard decisions."
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Woody Ruane
Former Finance Director at John Lewis
"I worked with Kathy in changing the Pension Benefit proposition at JLP. She did a fantastic job leading the programme to come in on time and under budget. The programme involved complex systems implementation, pensions administration operating model change as well as Board level stakeholder management. Kathy brings together robust delivery discipline with a mindset of coaching and development for the teams and individuals she leads; a highly effective combination."
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John Lewis Waitrose & Partners
Internal Leadership
"Kathy has played a critical role in the success of the Pensions Implementation Programme at John Lewis. She ensured the right governance, recruited the right expertise, and set a culture of delivery that brought everything together. Her leadership skills navigated us through complexity and challenges deftly."
READY TO LEAD DIFFERENTLY?
Let’s Talk About What’s Really Holding Your Organisation Back
Book a free 45-minute strategy session.
We’ll explore the leadership patterns at the heart of your stalled change—and what’s possible when you surface them.