What you can expect from me
With an open-minded, seasoned, and hands-on approach, I have been coaching international and expatriate leaders since 2009. My clientele primarily consists of professionals from multinational corporations, financial institutions, and retail businesses. Fluent in Dutch, French, English, and Mandarin Chinese, I guide you in mastering leadership and career challenges abroad, navigating cultural nuances, leading teams through adversity and change, and overcoming business communication hurdles.
As an analytical and non-judgmental coach, I focus on your unique context and the broader perspective. My practical coaching is aimed at enabling you to apply what you learn to your daily work, life, and leadership roles. I am dedicated to supporting you with assignments, attentive listening, presence, and serving as your reflective mirror and sparring partner.
Resilience to me
Having spend more time outside of my country of birth (Belgium), then in, I have learned to increase my resilience in building up my life and work in China and in the Netherlands. That has not always been easy, figuring out the culture, building a network, building my career and finding my own path. What I have learned from my experiences is that we humans are capable of so much more than we think. That is what resilience is for me, bouncing back after setbacks and regain our strength. My experiences have increased my faith in our human capacities and that faith and confidence, I give back in my coaching sessions.
Qualifications
I am a Sinologist (University Ghent – 1994, Beijing Language and Arts University – 1993 en Master in Far Eastern Business Studies – EHSAL Brussel – 1997). Hence my interest in Buddhism,Qigong, Mindfulness and meditation. I am a trained coach/counselor (Nederlandse Academie voor Psychotherapie 2008), a certified Leadership trainer, member of ICF. I have been a coach since 2008 and firmly belief that as a coach I need to continuously develop myself to assist my clients in the best way possible. I am therefore now in the process of becoming a certified ICF PCC global leadership coach with the Global Coach Group.
