You are ...

You are a man, a woman, an expat in an NGO or working for the private sector, a student, a retired man or woman, a home dad or a business woman, a couple or a ahtlete and ...

- You have a challenge to face in your professional life: a job evolution that raises many questions in your personal and professional life, a complex re-organization, a conflict management issue, a project that refuses to move forward!...

- You are in need of a solution to a problem: stress management, approaching an unforeseen life change, finding work after a long period of unemployment, finding a balance between personal and professional lives, gaining confidence in a particular area, making a long overdue choice …

- You would like to learn more or become more productive : you like your life and you want more ! Exploit your full potential, become more productive in a certain area (sport, music, technical area, art, savoir être, social actions...), finally live an old dream ...

- In theory, everything is going well, and still, you are not satisfied. Should your life/work continue on the same path or is it time to find a path that corresponds you better ? ...

What coaching can offer you ......

The coach can help you make a transition with empathy and no compliance! He looks to the future, very rarely backwards towards the past (in contrast to many therapies).

Tangibly:
At each step, you will 1) consciously recognize the problem as a whole/your desire/the project you want to carry forward, 2) elaborate an action plan, 3) identify your resources to counter your obstacles 4) move forward in a concrete and measurable manner and 5) evaluate the results.
At each step, I will offer you the best conditions allowing reflexion and progress, while accompanying you beyond your fears, your doubts. I will help to tap into your creativity, and increase your performance, while remaining respectful of your availability and energy. To do all of this, we will be very attentive to your environment, what you do in it, what you believe, what is important to you and most of all, who you really are.

Coaching is not consulting !
Because 1) only 20% of others people’s advice is used and 2) the solution that you find for your problem is always better adapted than somebody else's one. That is only if you are sure that everything (issues and options) has been looked into and considered … and that is my added value !

Coaching in humanitarian aid

I have been working in emergency and development humanitarian aid since 1993 and in particular for Médecins Sans Frontières for the last 10 years.

Coaching and expatriates - Even though my scope of action is large, I have a natural ease for expatriate coaching as I know well the difficulties linked with this style of life: distance from own country, intercultural confrontations, unstable social life, feeble comprehension from non-expatriates...

For humanitarians - For them, is added the difficulty of having social and professional lives closely intertwined, harsh living conditions, as well as a very limited vision of their future medium and long term. Their responsibilities are often superior to those they would have at home. All this, in addition to the usual stress linked to a job to be performed in the midst of difficult contexts.

What type of coaching for these people ? The video conference (Skype etc...) allows an efficient coaching with people at a distance. This coaching allows the coachee to take a step back, to learn quicker, to avoid getting bogged down by difficulties, to avoid burn-outs and destructive disillusionments, to increase their performance ... In short, to allow that they can blossom and want to stay in their job, avoiding frequent rotations which create negative impact on both them and their structures.

Always a foot in the humanitarian aid ... I remain available for short stays abroad (2 or 3 weeks) in the scope of emergency missions, missions of evaluation, of conflict resolution or coaching of staff or teams.