Dancing between worlds

20+ years in Executive Search/Change Management/Executive & Career Coaching, having interviewed, advised and coached thousands of international executives around the globe.

Fluent in German, French, and English

Having worked and lived on four continents: New York, Brussels, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Tangier, Singapore and Paris

 Multi-faceted professional:

From classic ballet dancer to tax consultant, audit/internal controls manager, entrepreneur, executive search director, career executive coach and trusted tarot advisor

From international “blue-chip” companies to small, flexible and “all do-it-yourself” businesses

I come from a very academic background and relatively conservative professional environment, having been in the automotive industry for 12 years and then having worked as an international C-level headhunter for more than two decades.  

With the time, more and more executives, looking for career transitions and not knowing how to navigate through unknown territories, were asking me for guidance and advice. That is when I started to realize that if you want change in your life, you need to get a fresh perspective…and do things differently.

So, I embarked on a new journey, where suddenly the left brain (our rational approach) was not the most focal point anymore. For more than 10 years now, I have developed my coaching activity around innovative and intuitive personal growth development tools, such as tarot and astrology archetypes, visualisation, use of imagery, meditation, affirmations and other creative growth methods.

For me, these methods help us to acquire what at INSEAD we called the “night vision”. I particularly love this metaphor: it makes you see through the night like a cat, piercing through unconscious material, letting unexpected aspects come to the surface, developing your intuitive skills (this is our right brain activity).

In my current professional and personal practice, I have come to reunite both type of techniques, the conventional, rational ones, and the creative ones. Both are important for transformation and change. It is just that in most of the western civilisations, from where I come, we already are particularly good at analysing and rationalising. Therefore, for a lot of us, our most profound change and growth can come, when we start to exercise more deeply our intuition and our creativity.

So, you might like this intense curiosity of mine, my passion to explore, to learn and always discover new things. I will love to pour this energy in my sessions with you, so that we make sure you really uncover what you need to and that I help you to get aware of the most diverse and possibly surprising points of view.

A never-ending learner, I love educating myself on subjects, that mostly circle around psychology, personal development and intuitive tools. This gives me a cutting edge to be always on top of new, innovate trends.

ON THE SURFACE SEEMINGLY OPPOSED WORLDS

As a dear friend described it, I have always been dancing between worlds: the conventional academic, serious environment and the think-out-of-the box, exciting, mysterious, and artistic world.

When I was 4 years old, I started ballet classes and got so fascinated, that my first deep purpose in life was dancing. I studied at the Vienna Opera Ballet Dance School and later at the Antwerp Dance Theatre, before abruptly ending my career. I then followed for more than three decades a very academic path (world’s leading business schools, blue chip companies) and different jobs from tax consultant, senior auditor, marketing organization manager to executive search consultant and finally career and executive coach, coming back to practicing an “art”, since a coaching practice relies a lot on intuitive skills.

LIMINAL (TRANSFORMATIONAL) SPACE

I have always wanted to explore and discover the world (my Sagittarian energy), my professional experience spans over 4 continents. I have lived in many different countries, getting the chance to discover so many exciting cultures, mindsets and life philosophies… Brussels, New York, Bonn, Vienna, Paris, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Tangiers, Singapore and back to Paris. So far….

And with the time, I have felt more and more the desire to be of service, to give back and to transmit, to share my experience and my insights with clients, colleagues and friends, that might benefit from it.

I know what change means and implies. So, if you feel lonely or overwhelmed on your transformational journey, know that I have been there…and still am, since it is a never-ending process. My experience can help you to navigate through this liminal process more gracefully.