57 min
Cat Woodhead, CEO of Muscular Dystrophy UK: Front Line Leadership Certain Change: The Leadership Collection
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I speak to Catherine Woodhead, CEO of Muscular Dystrophy UK.
Catherine has worked in the charity sector since 2000, with her fundraising experience spanning senior strategic and operational planning roles in a number of large and small charities. A former member of The Prince’s Charities fundraising advisory group, Catherine joined Muscular Dystrophy UK in August 2016 as Director of Development and was appointed CEO in September 2018.
Cat is a stroooong leader who has weathered this COVID storm with grace, courage and purpose as the wind in her sails. This interview is a masterclass in leadership. So inspiring and so heart led. She’s a tour de force – so hold on to your hats!
We learn about:
Empowering people at pace
Taking one for the team. When the buck truly stops with you, not shying away from the hard conversations.
Playing to team strengths – all pieces of a puzzle. It takes bold leadership to know what you don’t know and lean of the right members of the team to support you.
Find Cat here:
https://www.musculardystrophyuk.org/ - check them out – supporting 70,000 people with muscle wasting diseases – yes – that is the right amount of zero’s 70,000!!!
Please donate:
Carmela's Wonder Woman Walk - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/carmela-chillery-watson10 - the cutest 6 year old walking 200km on crutches, before she’ll need to be in wheelchair for life by the end of the year.
Cat is walking the marathon on 4th Oct – please support her here - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cat-woodhead
This is the MDUK donation page - https://donate.musculardystrophyuk.org/public/landing.aspx?content=Donate
And:
You can work with me as Leadership and Life Impact Coach, contact me here - amelia@kinestheticacoaching.com
I speak to Catherine Woodhead, CEO of Muscular Dystrophy UK.
Catherine has worked in the charity sector since 2000, with her fundraising experience spanning senior strategic and operational planning roles in a number of large and small charities. A former member of The Prince’s Charities fundraising advisory group, Catherine joined Muscular Dystrophy UK in August 2016 as Director of Development and was appointed CEO in September 2018.
Cat is a stroooong leader who has weathered this COVID storm with grace, courage and purpose as the wind in her sails. This interview is a masterclass in leadership. So inspiring and so heart led. She’s a tour de force – so hold on to your hats!
We learn about:
Empowering people at pace
Taking one for the team. When the buck truly stops with you, not shying away from the hard conversations.
Playing to team strengths – all pieces of a puzzle. It takes bold leadership to know what you don’t know and lean of the right members of the team to support you.
Find Cat here:
https://www.musculardystrophyuk.org/ - check them out – supporting 70,000 people with muscle wasting diseases – yes – that is the right amount of zero’s 70,000!!!
Please donate:
Carmela's Wonder Woman Walk - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/carmela-chillery-watson10 - the cutest 6 year old walking 200km on crutches, before she’ll need to be in wheelchair for life by the end of the year.
Cat is walking the marathon on 4th Oct – please support her here - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cat-woodhead
This is the MDUK donation page - https://donate.musculardystrophyuk.org/public/landing.aspx?content=Donate
And:
You can work with me as Leadership and Life Impact Coach, contact me here - amelia@kinestheticacoaching.com
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