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Executive coaching is a one-on-one partnership designed to help you lead with more clarity, confidence and impact. It's not therapy, training or consulting. I don't give you answers. I help you find them. Through powerful questions, honest reflection and strategic thinking, we work together to unlock what's already in you.

It's right for you if you're navigating a career transition, stepping into a bigger role, working through complex organisational dynamics or simply ready to lead more authentically. If you're feeling stuck, stretched or like something needs to shift, that's usually a good sign coaching will help.

Most individual coaching engagements run for three to six months, with sessions every two weeks. This rhythm tends to work well: enough time between sessions to reflect, experiment and come back with real material to work with.

That said, I adapt to what you need. Some clients work with me intensively over a shorter period; others continue for longer. We'll agree on what makes sense for your situation at the start.

Team coaching is an ongoing process, not a one-day event. Where a workshop gives your team tools and insights, team coaching creates lasting behavioural change. Over a series of sessions (typically 6 to 12) your team builds the trust, communication and alignment that makes high performance sustainable.

I work with leadership teams navigating cultural complexity, post-merger integration, strategic change, conflict or scale-up. The goal isn't just a better team day. It's a fundamentally different way of working together.

radical team coaching is a partnership of experienced, diverse coaches, who speak nine  languages and share a unified Transactional Analysis-based team coaching methodology.  We work together on larger or more complex team coaching engagements. It allows us to bring the right expertise and capacity to teams depending on needs.

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Real team transformation takes more than a one-day workshop. A typical team coaching programme runs over six to twelve sessions, usually spread across 6-9 months. This allows the team to embed new ways of working between sessions rather than leaving the insights behind in the room.

For facilitation and workshops (single sessions or short programmes), the format 

is more flexible. Half-day, full-day or multi-day. Designed around what your team actually  needs.

I work with leaders and teams who are ready to move: from complexity to clarity, from stuck to strategic, from managing to truly leading.

My clients include senior leaders and executives navigating transitions, leadership teams in high-growth or high-pressure environments and organisations scaling up and needing strategic alignment. Many of my clients are working across cultures or in international environments. This is where my German-American background and 20+ years of global experience become particularly relevant.

I've worked with organisations including Heineken, ASML, Accenture, ABN Amro, Shell and Vodafone Ziggo, as well as through THNK School of Leadership, Schouten & Nelissen and BetterCoach.

“People are naturally creative, resourceful and whole."

Co-Active coaching is one of the most rigorous and respected coaching methodologies in the world. Its foundation is the belief that people are naturally creative, resourceful and whole. You already have what you need and my job is to help you access it.

I'm a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) trained by CTI, the organisation that developed the model. It's one of several frameworks I draw on, alongside ORSC (Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching), Transactional Analysis and DiSC. All of these inform how I work with both individuals and teams.

These are genuinely different things and it's worth being clear:

Coaching helps you discover your own solutions through reflection, questions and new perspectives. The answers come from you.

Mentoring draws on the mentor's own experience to offer guidance and advice. I do offer this in specific contexts (particularly in my scale-up consulting work) but it's distinct from coaching.

Consulting provides expert solutions to business problems. My scale-up consulting work sits here: strategic positioning, brand development and organisational clarity.

Therapy addresses psychological challenges and mental health. Coaching is not therapy and I'm not qualified to provide mental health treatment. If that's what you need, I'll always say so honestly.

I'm based in the Netherlands (Gouda, in the heart of the Randstad between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag) and work with leaders and teams globally. Sessions can be face-to-face, online or by phone. Whatever works best for you and your team.

I regularly work with clients across the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and the US, as well as with global teams spanning multiple continents. Cross-cultural complexity is something I navigate professionally and personally. It's genuinely part of how I think and work 

I work fluently in both English and German, which is particularly useful for leaders working across European or international contexts. I also understand Dutch and increasingly work in mixed Dutch/English settings. Pushing myself out of my own comfort zone feels only fair when I'm asking clients to do the same.

Pricing depends on the scope, format and length of the engagement. I don't publish standard rates because the right structure varies significantly. A three-month individual coaching programme looks very different from a year-long team coaching journey with a leadership team of ten.

The best starting point is a free 30-minute chemistry session. No pitch, no pressure. Just an honest conversation about where you are and what you need. From there, I'll propose something that fits.

A chemistry session is a free 30-minute conversation: a chance for both of us to see if we're a good fit. I'll ask about where you are, what you're navigating and what you're hoping for. You can ask me anything about how I work.

There's no obligation and no sales pitch. If I'm not the right person for what you need, I'll tell you and try to point you somewhere useful instead. Book your free chemistry session here

For individual coaching, sessions are 60 to 90 minutes. We meet regularly (usually every two weeks) and you bring the focus for each session. That might be a specific challenge, a decision you're sitting with, a pattern you keep running into or something you want to think through more deeply.

For team coaching, sessions are typically longer (two to three hours) and designed to work on both the task (what the team is trying to achieve) and the relationship (how the team is working together). These aren't just facilitated meetings. They're structured development sessions with real follow-through between them.

Come ready to be honest with me and with yourself. The clients who get the most from coaching are the ones who bring real material, stay curious and are willing to try things differently between sessions.

You're responsible for your own progress. My job is to create the conditions for change. Yours is to do something with what emerges.