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Kate Tojeiro takes up Pyrenees Enduro Challenge
with help of British Champion, Donna Gray

Coaching intervention is all about stepping out of your comfort zone and taking on new challenges and making a difference, something Kate Tojeiro, founder of executive coaching and leadership development company, Xfusion frequently tells her FTSE 100 clients. But now, Kate is following her own advice by taking part in a daunting Enduro Challenge in aid of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and Kids Company . Donna Gray, former British Ladies Enduro Champion will be training Kate for the challenge.

Along with her husband, Robin, and bike fanatic Gary Faillettaz, Kate will be climbing onto her GasGas 200EC off-road motorbike to begin training. Kate got her licence fourteen years ago and has not been on a motorbike since, let alone an off-road one!

Starting near Biarritz, the Enduro Challenge will take place at the beginning of September 2011, consisting of a three day, 30 hour trip across the Pyrenees. With breathtaking climbs and descents, and the complex technical nature of the terrain, the charity challenge is expected to be extremely grueling.

"If someone had told me last year that I would be taking part in an off road motorbike endurance challenge across the rugged terrain of the Pyrenees I would have laughed," said 41 year old, Kate Tojeiro. "And having an Enduro British champion of Donna Gray's calibre to train me is just incredible, if not a little daunting!"

"I am terrified by the prospect, but at the same time very excited. As a coach to executives in some of the world's largest companies, I regularly get feedback about the way I enable people to achieve more. Getting people out of their comfort zones to do something different that will ultimately help them achieve and succeed in whatever guise success means to them is what I do. By setting myself a similar goal I feel it will create greater empathy and understanding with my clients," explains Kate.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) will always be important to Kate and her husband after their daughter, Tabby was admitted for a benign lipoma in 2005. "It's a charity we've always wanted to support ever since," says Kate. "I also greatly respect Kids Company, a charity that supports exceptionally traumatised and vulnerable young children ever since I heard David Gustave speak at a conference. We will divide all donations equally between the two charities."

Follow Kate's progress on http://endurochallenge.blogspot.com or to kindly donate to GOSH via Just Giving click on http://www.justgiving.com/Kate-Tojeiro  or to Kids Company at http://www.justgiving.com/KateTojeiro . Follow Kate on Twitter
The Litlington-based trio have attracted support from a number of local companies offering sponsorship for the Challenge, including Royston-based Special Little People, a company specialising in aromatherapy for children, Esse Retail and Spa in Melbourn, Torque Racing and Stevenage-based Werx and ZeroNineMX are providing the decals. Support has also been given by OceanOne boutiques in the West Country and DawsonVAServices in Newcastle.

80% of Cambridgeshire-based Xfusion clients are FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 companies, they also number amongst Fortune Magazine's '100 Best Companies to work for', 2010. The company works with senior management offering a range of high impact and multi-sensory coaching and leadership development programmes.