Award Winning International Coach, Speaker & Founder of EnABLEd Entrepreneurs at The Life Coach Station
I specialise in helping people with disabilities, but also those wanting to discover their purpose.
I am the creator of the five step EnABLEd Entrepreneurs Elevator programme for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to start, develop and scale a business.
I have over 20 years of experience in solving issues around disability in the workplace. I combine this with my own personal experiences of being partially sighted for a unique perspective to support innovative solutions with disability for business people. I have developed my reputation as an expert in disability in the workplace, by cutting through the politically correct nonsense and always striving to achieve the right results, leading to cost-effective and sustainable solutions for business.
It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention and this holds true for many people who are successful at what they do and also have a disability. It also helps if you grow up in a very practical family where making and repairing things are the norm and an almost complete disregard for personal safety means that the practicalities of partial sight are by and large ignored!
I obtained a 2:1 BSc (Hons) in Politics from the University of Plymouth in 1998. I worked in engineering workshops, transport businesses and the RNIB’s Rehabilitation Centre in Torquay, before moving on to one of the largest social enterprises in the UK, called Pluss. I recruited, trained and inspired my team to become the best at supporting employers seeking to employ and retain people with disabilities. Even today, the team tell me that businesses say “Chris would know what to do; we trusted him to get things sorted out”. I was the ’single point of reference’ for getting things done, even when it was somebody else’s role to implement a piece of assistive technology or to provide support. I took responsibility because that is what I do.
Throughout my career, I learned to take risks and I became extremely resourceful in order to achieve the things I wanted to be, do and have. This almost single-minded self-determination proved extremely useful when finding and sustaining paid work for other people with disabilities. It was this solution-focused work that enabled me to develop an unrivalled reputation for helping business people with employees who were finding it difficult to continue doing their current job and just wanted somebody to listen, understand and tell them what needed to be done. This expertise, rooted in practical knowledge, was supported academically by a PgCert in Disability Management in the Workplace at Distinction level.
How did The Life Coach Station come about?
I wasn’t enjoying my job as much any more, and I wanted to get back the “buzz” I got from helping businesses to employ and resolve issues for disabled people in the workplace. I also wanted to be the master of my own destiny. Personal development and learning to apply coaching approaches to find innovative solutions with disability for business people had rekindled my interest in the application of psychology in business. So in 2012 I quit my job, set up The Life Coach Station, and decided to become a professional coach (via a PPD Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching and Diploma in Small Business Coaching), an accredited DISC Personality Profiler and an Associate Coach of the Growth Accelerator programme.
Having acquired the insight into who I am and what made me the way I am, you will be able to decide much more quickly how I can best help you.
Remember, if I can overcome my barriers around my own disability, I am far more likely than many others that you could work with to help you to remove your barriers and perhaps you can walk in my footsteps.
Since I started my own business, I have met some fantastically passionate people – my customers, business owners and decision-makers, who make it all worthwhile for me. I would love you to become one of them!
Welcome to The Life Coach Station & The EnABLEd Entrepreneur
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That’s why The Life Coach Station is here to offer something different. Something more… magical.
You see, I’m a disability life coach and business consultant that’s anything but ordinary.
That’s where The Life Coach Station’s personal approach to life design and disability in the workplace comes in.
I believe that all our lives are meant to be purposeful and fun. My purpose is to help you bring that kind of approach to your life. Disabled people can not only thrive in the workplace but also be a great advantage to a team or organisation.
Whether you have your own business, a corporate career, or something as yet untapped, I show you how to bring yourself into everything you’re creating.
Please do not hesitate to contact Chris Catt of The Life Coach Station if you would like to learn more about what we do, but most importantly, how we work differently to achieve what matters to you – results!
We are proud of what we have achieved for many individual and corporate clients, we guarantee it!