Cathy is a qualified teacher and leader with a BEd (Hons) QTS, a Master of Arts in Early Education with Care, a NPQH, and two post graduate certificates in coaching in education and leadership. She has worked for over thirty years across the education, daycare, and care sectors. She has gained Fellowship status with the Chartered College of Teaching (FCCT) and CollectivED Centre for Coaching and Mentoring at Leeds Beckett University. Through her career, Cathy has been a primary and early years teacher, early years coordinator, early years leader, and local authority advisory teacher for early years. She has worked as a private daycare teacher/manager and volunteered as a preschool trustee and daycare director. Cathy was the Headteacher and Head of Centre of a maintained nursery school with an integrated children’s centre for ten years. While she was Head, the Centre experienced six Ofsted inspections and was commended for outstanding practice and leadership. Cathy currently works as a freelance consultant coach, mentor, and adviser. Her recent work includes a three year project supporting an EYFS unit in a London primary school where it was noted that “children in the early years get off to a strong start”.