Catherine Hodgson is the co-founder and CEO of The Hodgson Group in South Africa for the past 30 years. After working in marketing in the corporate world, Hodgson and her husband started their own companies supplying the retail chains with homeware, kitchenware and beauty products. As CEO, Hodgson leads a team in Cape Town importing, warehousing and being an agent for retailers in South Africa. Hodgson joined YPO (Young Presidents Organization) as a member in 2009 and was involved in one of the first mentoring pilots in Cape Town, becoming Chapter Mentoring Officer and then Africa Regional Mentoring Officer, developing mentoring training materials and holding the first YPO mentoring training workshop. She was YPO Global Mentoring Chair on two international committees for 5 years (2012-2018), rolling out the YPO Mentoring program to 12 regions around the world, developing and launching Mentoring Masterclasses, an online mentoring platform YPO MentorCloud and training mentoring facilitators. She developed a mentoring model, the Catherine Wheel, in 2017 which was adopted by YPO as their mentoring model for their program and is used by other organizations globally. Hodgson is a certified Mentoring Facilitator and runs masterclasses globally on mentoring and conversational skills. She believes passionately in lifelong learning and has been on a personal learning journey in the mentoring and coaching fields. Hodgson studied Conversational Intelligence under the late Judith Glaser for 18 months and was certified in Conversational Intelligence in 2019. She has also certified as a Results Based Coach with the NeuroLeadership Institute in 2020. In 2020 she formally started a mentoring, coaching and consulting business, SHIFT Mentoring. In 2022 Hodgson was certified as a Forum Facilitator for Young Presidents' Organisation. After many years of developing mentoring material for organizations, Hodgson decided to put all her learning together into her book, The Mentoring Roadmap - the ultimate guide for mentors and mentees. The book was launched in November 2023. Married with two adult children, she lives in Cape Town, South Africa and spends five months of the year sailing in Europe.