Enlightened Organizations

enabling people & organizations to realise their potential

Catherine Berney
Managing Director
"Catherine is seen as standout... really brings the expertise. She understands her stuff, she knows how to get a team to work together, she knows her craft well. She is able to hold a mirror up, and challenge people. "
Clare Allen
Head of Coaching, KPMG

Catherine Berney, MD

BCL Solicitor MSc. Organizational Psychology CEDR Mediator Fellow Cranfield School of Management FRSA and Non-Executive Director.

Catherine started out as an aircraft finance lawyer with McCann Fitzgerald and Linklaters, where she developed a love of business and a passion for leadership, good governance and the strategic alignment of person with role at work.  She later re-qualified as an organizational psychologist and Graduate Member of the BPS in 1993. 

Since then Catherine has been successfully developing executive leaders and their teams across all sectors, sometimes in collaboration with others (Cranfield School of Management where she is a Visiting Fellow, PA Consulting, CEDR, Mannaz) before authoring The Enlightened Organization and founding Enlightened Organizations Limited as a global consultancy.

Catherine has significant experience and success working with boards, C-suite executives and senior leaders on leadership development and transformational change; enabling leaders, boards, teams and their organizations to succeed and deliver a better service to their clients. And she acts as an ongoing trusted advisor for many of her clients.

Catherine has been invited to speak at the specialist conferences below in Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Birmingham and Dublin

Thought Leadership

Why I wrote The Enlightened Organization

Why I wrote The Enlightened Organization

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What her Clients Say

"If you want your senior leadership team to be more effective, this is the go-to psychologist for the job."
Jim Hytner
Global COO
"Catherine is a masterful facilitator and exceptional talent"
Ita Dureke
Director of Global People and Leadership Development
"Unique combination of skills together with a background in law and psychology enable Catherine to deliver the highest level of professional support, tailoring everything that she does to the needs of the business situation."
Jacquie Drake
Director Praxis
"I was so grateful to have Catherine by my side while designing and facilitating an 18-month, seven-module, blended-learning leadership development program for mid-level managers at Shell. Her expertise on leadership challenges, executive tools and techniques, and program design were invaluable."
Elaine Tombaugh
Senior Leadership Advisor
"Catherine's energy is infectious. Her depth of knowledge and experience in leadership is tremendous and she is as effective in leading a program as she is in one on one coaching."
Anne Benedict
Chief Human Resources Manager