Mrs. Catherine Fewings
Background
Catherine is a trilingual leadership coach and business strategist with more than 20 years’ experience across financial services and utilities in Europe and Australia. As CEO of Alcedo Consulting, she supports leaders to build high‑performing teams and purposeful cultures that drive results. With a strong track record in strategy, transformation, and people performance, she partners with clients to unlock leadership potential, energise workplaces, and deliver sustainable impact through strengths‑based coaching, facilitation, and practical leadership development.
Coaching philosophy
Catherine believes leadership development should be practical, strengths‑driven and results‑focused. Her approach helps clients identify what they do best, apply it with purpose and lead with clarity. She focuses on building confidence, improving team dynamics and aligning leadership behaviours with business outcomes. Through structured coaching and facilitation, she equips managers to make better decisions, energise their teams and deliver measurable results, turning leadership potential into everyday performance.
Professional Snapshot
Areas of expertise
- Leadership Coaching: Facilitated leadership development workshops for 50 global team leaders at Ernst & Young, strengthening cross‑country collaboration and influencing skills.
- Organisational Change: Led the transformation of Water Corporation’s Operations Group by establishing a shared‑services delivery arm and implementing 14 strategic initiatives over three years, reshaping how more than 2,000 staff contributed to corporate goals.
- Strategic Planning: Developed and delivered the statewide Operations Strategy, aligning operational priorities with corporate objectives.
- Business Improvement: Established lean visual management systems and service catalogues across 15 business units, enabling teams to track performance against cost, quality and delivery KPIs.
- Team Development: Strengthened cohesion among five team leaders within Water Corporation’s Operations Services by introducing resource‑sharing and strategic stakeholder engagement.
- Career Development: Designed and implemented competency frameworks, career pathways and succession planning strategies across Water Corporation, supporting workforce development and talent mobility.
- Conflict Management: Managed performance improvement plans that aligned behaviours with organisational values, reducing escalations and supporting a more respectful, accountable culture.
Qualifications and accreditations
- Master’s Degree - Business and Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Certified Associate in Project Management, PMBOK
- Prince 2 Practitioner
- Certified Executive and Organisational Coach, CPI
- Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
- Accredited Practitioner for Organisational Development, Human Synergistics
- Accredited Mental Health Champion, Blooming Minds
- Certified Workshop Facilitator, Facilitators Inner Circle
- PRINT team dynamics trainer, Paul Hertz Group
Group and team coaching
- Strengthened leadership cohesion across five team leaders in Water Corporation’s Operations Services by facilitating team development training, resource‑sharing strategies and stakeholder prioritisation.
- Facilitated leadership development workshops for 50 global team leaders at Ernst & Young, enhancing cross-cultural communication, collaboration and influencing skills.
- Chaired the statewide Operations Engineering forum, supporting regional leaders to standardise processes and adopt innovative technologies.
- Led the Culture Club for a 150‑person business unit, coaching volunteers to drive initiatives in Learning Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, and Social Club activities.
- Mentored leaders through change management redesign, saving more than 1,500 training hours and improved focus on core business activities.
- Advised General Managers and Business Unit Heads on resource allocation and team structure using strengths‑based approaches.
Talent assessor
- PRINT individual debriefs,
- PRINT wheel for teams
- Human Synergistics LSI for individuals
- Human Synergistics OCI for teams
Success stories
- Safeguarded $7.5M in corporate funds by strengthening contract oversight across Perth’s major desalination plants, ensuring uninterrupted water production for 50 per cent of the city’s supply.
- Led the development and implementation of a statewide Operations Strategy for more than 2,000 staff, establishing a shared‑services function and delivering 14 strategic initiatives trhough the Transformation Office.
- Delivered $5M in operational savings within a financial year by applying Six Sigma methodologies to drive productivity and embed continuous improvement across 15 business units.
- Redesigned change management processes, reducing operator training time by over 1,500 hours and automating high‑volume tasks.
- Directed a global transformation program for Ernst & Young, aligning 250 analysts under a unified strategy and operating model, and connecting 50 knowledge managers across Europe through collaborative systems.
- Achieved outstanding employee experience results (91% Leadership Experience, 83% Engagement, 79% Inclusivity) fostering cross-functional collaboration, team development, and stakeholder‑focused service delivery.