people profile: Kate Burton

Kate’s business experience lies in enabling people to communicate clearly and with confidence – which in turn delivers results in corporate performance. 

She managed corporate advertising and marketing campaigns with
Hewlett-Packard.  Over the last twenty-five years, she has consulted on communication and change with organisations across industries and cultures – corporations such as KPMG, GlaxoSmithKline, SwissRe and Waitrose, as well as leaders in the public sector, SMEs and entrepreneurs.

Her recent book on communication excellence
‘Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for Dummies’ is the top selling book on NLP. 
‘Building Confidence for Dummies’ was launched in January 2006.

As a professionally qualified coach, Kate works with a range of leaders and executives bringing about lasting change that adds to the quality of their lives. The coaching agenda comes from the client, and may range across business or team set up and performance, stakeholder relationships, career transitions, international assignments and personal well-being. Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com   

 A sample of the companies Kate has recently worked with:

Magirus: European turnover – 550  million euros Employees – 500
For the UK board of this IT value-added distributor Kate custom-built and delivered a series of leadership development workshops applying NLP tools to business scenarios.  She was then invited to coach all the sales and consultancy teams on presenting with greater impact.

Swiss Re, Zurich
Kate created the communication strategy and managed the planning for an ambitious Global Financial Initiative with multi-cultural program teams based in Swiss Re’s HQs in Zurich and London.

Fortune 500 corporation, European HQ, Paris
To support a period of re-structuring in Europe, Kate coached all the European country managers on communicating major change to its workforces.   The corporation has subsequently reported healthy profits in all its European operations and has been voted as one of the world’s best companies to work for.

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