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I work with independent consultants and senior leaders who are looking for support to progress personally and professionally. My personal background as an executive search consultant and leadership advisor provides a unique capacity to coach leaders to define what they really want, what their options are, and how to pursue and realize what is best for them. We do not provide direct connections with executive search firms or specific job opportunities, but we advise how to make those connections in an impactful way if required.
➢ Contextual and immersive development: Context-based, applied, and experiential learning creates engaging, accountable, and business relevant development that drives real-time and sustainable improvement.
➢ Inside-out and Outside-in: In each coaching relationship, we develop leaders from the inside-out by clarifying values, personal preferences, motivations, capabilities, and experiences. We match that with the outside-in perspective through establishing how they are viewed by others and how they can improve their influence across their internal and external stakeholder eco-system.
➢ Shared responsibility: This approach involves and aligns internal stakeholders in the development of the executives to help them successfully identify and tackle potential obstacles to their fullest performance and potential.
➢ External exposure: Working with seasoned coaches and senior leaders with cross industry expertise adds rigor to the development process, heightens self-awareness and accelerates the filling of the experience gaps.
For career coaching, we offer two options. Option 1 is an executive coaching trajectory and Option 2 is the Pause to Accelerate© Program, an immersive coaching approach.
Option 1 – Executive Coaching
Once we meet for the chemistry meeting and align on expectations, I provide a detailed proposal about the goals, reflection and diagnostic requirements, interaction style and meeting frequency.
Our executive coaching process secures impact as per the following steps:
➢ Chemistry meeting: This meeting serves as an opportunity to get to know each other, build trust and align on expectations. It is conducted free of charge.
➢ Preparation: I share a format for reflection on a few topics before we meet for our first session. This is about personal preferences, motivations, career so far, current challenges and future ambitions. If relevant we also conduct some on-line personality and 360 diagnostics.
➢ Executive Coaching Sessions: The frequency is determined by expectations. Initial sessions focus more on developing self-awareness and creating optional pathways, followed by sessions on action planning and coaching on progress. There can be specific behavioral coaching needs to help with some of the actions, which we can address as well. It is helpful to plan 2 hours sessions each time. Our interaction is typically a combination of strategic leadership coaching as well as practical guidance in specific situations.
➢ On-going Interaction: In between the sessions, I am available for short, virtual interactions (e-mail, WhatsApp, phone call and video call) at request. These interactions serve as check points for practical advice. ➢ Commitment: During our engagement, I might expect some specific work, e.g. reflection, trying a certain behavior change and other activity, to reinforce progress.
Option 2 – Pause to Accelerate© Program
Pause to Accelerate© is an immersive coaching approach. The participant works on their specific development areas, reconnecting with their personal purpose, increasing their self awareness and gaining energy to sustain their personal development and achieve their personal goals. This is a particularly impactful approach for career coaching since the immersive nature is a perfect platform for defining the career vision, strengths and watchouts on a deep personal level and coming out with an action plan and the energy to execute; all in a span of a week. The participant is on-boarded to the program with personalized self-reflection guidance and the 360 diagnostic of Leadership Circle. They then immerse themselves in a 5-day intense leadership retreat. Following that, we continue with executive coaching to support them in achieving their persona goal. Pause to Accelerate© is a unique and transformative leadership program. The program creates fast results based on following unique features.
➢ Methodology: Leveraging from contemporary leadership research and executive coaching practices, the program is designed to create a transformative effect.
➢ Participants: We host intimate groups of like-minded senior leaders in each program, ensuring personalized attention and meaningful interactions. There are only 2 or 4 participants in each session.
➢ Inspirational Locations: Retreats are held in locations where you connect with nature, history, and local culture, creating a break from your routines and broadening your perspectives.
➢ Systematic Coaching: You receive personal attention before, during and after the retreat. Pre-retreat you receive personalized self-reflection guidance through an intake conversation. Post-retreat, we help you integrate new learnings into daily practices through coaching.
➢ Expert Facilitation: Our programs are led by highly skilled facilitators and business coaches with over 25 years of experience coaching leaders across global corporations.
The program fee for Pause to Accelerate© is EUR 15.000 plus VAT if relevant. The fee covers the preparation phase, including the intake conversations and 360 feedback, 5 days leadership retreat, and coaching for 3 months following the leadership retreat. The accommodation, meals, all activities and transfers during the retreat are included, and travel to and from the retreat location is excluded.
