Kate Arneil
Senior Associate
Kate is a skilled facilitator, and an expert at creating interactive, experiential training where leaders can increase their self-awareness, root out unhelpful habits, and actively practice personalized tools and approaches. She creates an energized, positive environment where people feel safe and motivated to explore behaviour and thinking beyond their comfort zones, and consciously create the impact they choose.
She uses a combination of neuroscience research and behavioural techniques, honed by twenty years as a professional actor, to tailor work, and help each individual enrich their personal strengths. She specializes in Leadership Development and has many years experience in pharma, law firms and a large range of industries. She is also very at home in Management Development too (Presentation Skills, Influencing Skills, Courageous Conversations and Resilience.)
Originally from Glasgow, she trained in piano at the RSAMD, and narrowly escaped a career as a lawyer by heading to Rose Bruford drama school in London, graduating with a BA Hons. She spent twenty years working on stage in Rep, the West End, and internationally, and in TV and film with many of the country’s most successful directors from Trevor Nunn to Kenneth Brannagh. Fascination with behaviour and business took over fifteen years ago, and she has spent that time using the actor’s tool-kit of presence, intention, openness and active practice to help people develop themselves and others. She is a bit obsessed with football, keeps her hand in as an actor work doing video game voice -overs - Warhammer anyone? - and lives in South London with a physics obsessed actor husband, and four babies - two wonderful, neurodivergent teenagers, and two aging Jack Russells who run the house.
Kate has worked with a diverse range of clients including Zoopla, Wellcome Sanger Trust, Domainex, Seed X, Estatesearch, Waitrose and Bindmands LLP.
'I think this has been one of the most important things I have ever gone through in my career - it has been pivotal!' Senior Manager Zoopla
Kate had a way of talking you out of any concerns/scepticism that made you realise certain things would work, and she has certainly provided a toolbox, or framework of principles, that I will utilise going forwards. Senior Leader Domainex