The Coaching Solopreneur™ How to build a coaching business with sustainable foundations

A half-day Masterclass for those who want to do the thinking required to build a coaching practice utilising their coaching qualification. An opportunity to use the tools and work with the author of 'The Coaching Solopreneur^TM' to start or restart the build of your coaching business.

Are you a recently qualified coach looking to set up an independent coaching practice? 

Do you want to build a practice that utilises your skills, qualifications, and personal qualities? 

Has the ‘Who am I ‘and ‘How do I coach’ questions supported your thinking to date but now you are wanting to build a coaching business to house your coaching practice that answers a third question: 

“How will I uniquely, authentically and responsibly do the work as a coach?”

The Coaching Solopreneur^™ book was written with you in mind and shares some of the lessons learnt in how Kate Freedman built her successful coaching business. If you are you looking for more understanding of what running a typical coaching practice entails and wish to gain support for how you might move into doing this work in a way that suits your intentions, needs and purpose for having the business then come and join this Masterclass to support you in building your business.

This Masterclass has been designed to support your action steps as you build your coaching practice using your coaching skills and with support from others who are at the same stage or have been in your shoes.

What you will learn

• You will gain awareness of the essential building blocks for a strong commercial, ethical, safe and authentic coaching practice – you will be introduced to the minimum essentials of owning a coaching practice and the workshop explores the principles behind these needs and helps you to establish how you might put these actions in place.
• You will gain insights and support for the ownership of the question of ‘What’s needed for me to do next?”– you will be able to spend time to action steps for your coaching business build to decide on what to do next, by when and with what resources.
• You will be able to acquire the support of others to help hold yourself accountable to your action plan that builds your business – you will be able to benefit from the time with other coaches on this workshop and in the sharing of your thinking for support and challenge in the moment and by creating a network for any future development needs.

How you learn

This live virtual half day combines sharing from an established independent coach practice owner and the author of “The Coaching Solopreneur” and by participation in exercises to reflect on your business build with other newly qualified coaches.

You will work with fellow participants in pairs and as a group to utilise your coaching skills in pursuit of your business growth, allowing you to think with clarity on what you want to do next to embed your learning.

Your learning experience

Your learning will be supported in a safe, secure and confidential environment where you will be able to acknowledge your business strengths and development areas and grow your confidence from understanding yourself and your plans for your business that will feel authentic, safe and meaningful to your needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

About Kate

At Kate Freedman Coaching, Kate’s focus is helping individuals transform themselves and reach their potential using coaching sessions as the catalyst for change.

Kate uses coaching to create learning spaces for professional coaches, individuals, teams and organisations to help them transition to achieve their aspirations.

​Kate is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach with a background at corporate multinational Unilever PLC, where she led a commercial capability programme and was an internal executive and careers coach for almost seven years. Kate trained with the AoEC whilst still at Unilever and again she took the Advanced Programme on her transition to be an independent coach.

In 2017, she set up Kate Freedman Coaching Ltd as she wanted to enact her purpose to be a solopreneur who, while supporting her family, could coach individuals and teams to explore their purpose for the greater good of their professional lives and the value they could offer their organisations. 

Since then, her love of learning and all things coaching has led her to complete a team coaching qualification and a diploma in coach supervision. In addition, she also has a certificate in climate coaching to enable her to use the power of coaching to drive change in our ecosystem.

Kate’s Supervision work with new coaches led her to want to do more to support the business fundamentals questions that they were bringing to Supervision. Now she feels like it’s time to help new coaches make their mark on the coaching profession and build the business that supports their coaching offer.

Further reading