“For a lot of my working life I was a proud, self confessed workaholic. Late nights, early mornings whilst juggling motherhood, sister, wife, daughter, aspiring master chef, dog walker and successful business owner … the list goes on!. I casually add successful business owner at the end, but this is so not the case! My work so often consumed me mentally and physically.

I wore the super woman persona like a badge of honour, whilst evidently close to burnout for at least 10 years. It felt like there were never enough hours in the day … until I accepted that I couldn’t change how much time I had but I could use it differently.“

About Me … here’s a bit more about me just in case you’re interested

  • My Professional Story ... Build it.

    I started my career studying Law before diverting from my LPC to train as a Probation Officer. I loved it but within a few years, moved to self employment as a Risk Management Consultant, specialising in report writing and risk assessing. Advising on strategies to help people rebuild and change after addictions and mental health, really set the foundation for my psychological training and understanding of people. You could say I’ve spent a lot of my life, helping people redesign theirs.

    Working under a lot of pressure and away from home more than I wanted. I set up a Family Consultancy, and worked with Collaborative family law solicitors, with high net worth clients. It gave me a frontline seat into the daily lives of lawyers as well as the challenges and dynamics that came with the millionaire lifestyle of many of my clients. Now, equipped with the experience of working with ‘people from all walks of life’, I started to get serious about redesigning my own.

    I’d been using Coaching models and skills for years but completing my Masters in Leadership and HR, gave me an opportunity to really study it. Shortly after, COVID hit. …my husband had just bought a franchise and long story short, I, we threw ourselves into it, me as MD, he as installation manager, it boomed, and we sold it five years later.

    So, equipped with a five year design business crash course, three design awards and a fully fledged understanding of ‘design thinking’ I decided to accumulate all of this into my love of Coaching.

    Being already trained in Cognitive Behavioural theory, fascinated by neuroscience and the discovery of Stanford University Life Design theory, I designed and redesigned a work life management system.

    I absolutely love the hope, the freedom and the empowerment a life design approach provides … so here I am … practising what I preach, far from perfect but still on a mission to make a positive difference in the world; sharing it with other hard working professionals.

  • Qualifications

    Catherine Ward-Bexter - LLB, BA, DIPps, MSc.

    Author & Creator of of JUST A LITTLE TIME ™ Work Life Management System

    Designer - 10-20-30 Minute™ Time Management Method for Neurodivergent Minds - 2026

    MSc. - Leadership & Human Resource Management, University of Law, London, 2019

    Level 7 - CMI - Strategic Leadership - Chartered Management Institute, 2019

    Certificate in Executive Mentoring - Coaching & Mentoring Council, 2010

    Certificate in Life Coaching Skills, The Coaching Academy, 2008

    CBT - Thinking Skills Programme Tutor, 2005

    BA(Hons)- DIPps - Community & Criminal Justice, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2005

    LLB(Hons) - Law Degree, Aberystwyth University - 2002

    Memberships/Accreditations:

    Resolution - Associate Member

    ICF - International Coaching Federation

  • My Personal Story ... Dream Big.

    Having had my daughter at 18, I’ve always been ‘conscious’ of feeling the need to make up time. I’ve never known adult life without the juggle of childcare responsibilities…. until fairly recently, so I’m long past judging others or aspiring for perfection. The older I get, the more I love life. I’ve been through the burn out, the empty nest, the relationship break-up, the financial challenges and the mid-life re-evaluation. And, when my Mum died at only 69, and being nearly 50 myself, the value of time and the ‘life is too short’ reminder, has made the ‘if not now then when’ philosophy a bigger priority for me.

    I’m a big believer in conscious living and pro-social modelling and have always been a progressive thinker and dreamer at heart. I’m embracing A.I. but firmly believe that good people will always need good people, and kindness costs nothing, but means everything.

  • Future Aspirations

    ….. I’ll finish my book, and who knows I may even have such an exciting next 20 years that I could write an autobiography :) I’ve always wanted to walk the Inca trail and see the Chinese Fishing nets in Kerala…

    It doesn’t sound very exciting or bold …. but I absolutely love my garden … it’s my happy place…. I’m not very good at it, my house is full of artificial plants because I’m no good at keeping things alive inside, but I absolutely love being in the garden in my shorts and wellies in all weathers. So, to have a beautiful garden would be mega cool for me.

    I do love my life but if I was to completely start again/redesign I’d be a blueberry farmer, with goats and ducks. Or, become a tour guide in Africa … who knows? I just love that the options are endless when you open your mind to possibilities.…. how about you? What will your story be?