Our international coaches

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Connecting people with themselves and with others is my passion. Helping people to make the next step towards the person they are destined to be is very inspiring and rewarding to me. My coaching, consulting and training experience is mainly with people working in large companies / multinationals. In my coaching I am always looking for the question behind the question. Deep listening and guiding in a confronting manner is the way I prefer to coach. Being out of your comfort zone is the breeding ground for personal growth.

My professional foundation comes from sixteen years with the international practice of PwC. As a consultant I was focussing on the areas of change management and people development. Since 2013 I’m helping people and organizations as an independent consultant, trainer and coach.

Yvonne and I live near Amsterdam with our two sons Stan (’03) and Cas (’05). In the evenings & weekends I’m coaching and training at our boys’ local football club. And I’m living my own professional passion as well as I spend a lot of time on my own personal development journey in many different ways. Nature is the place I love to be and is also the perfect setting for coaching, so who knows….

My coaching areas:

• Career Coaching
• Life Coaching
• Business / Corporate Coaching

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I am a Brazilian Life Coach. My life’s essence is to help people bring out their best, to help them overcome their problems and to reach their goals or to find out what are their dreams.

I have a specialization in Strategic Business Management and 10 years of work experience in corporations, banks, industries. For the last 4 years I worked with personal and professional development of trainees. I am a great listener with a positive mindset, able to motivate and encourage people to pursue their goals and to be better in whatever they want to be.

If you are a Portuguese speaker living in another country, feeling unhappy in any areas of your life, feeling that you are not moving forward, you don’t know what you want and where to start, then we can work together. We set one small step that you can take in each area to experience more fulfilment and fun in your life right now. Through our work together I will help you overcome any challenges that may arise and bring out your best, enabling you to continue steadily forward as you create and live a more fulfilling, balanced and fun-filled life.

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I empower individuals to overcome individual obstacles in their relationship with themselves. Using clinically tested and evidenced-based interventions alongside direct and playful engagement with the senses, I enjoy helping clients take steps toward creating their more ideal personal and vocational lives, as they explore individual identities and interests. My therapeutic style builds on client self-acceptance, empowerment and utilisation of insight. I focus on creating a positive, collaborative therapeutic relationship and selecting interventions based on each client’s particular needs. As research shows, increased self-awareness and personal resiliency is essential in navigating the challenges found along individual paths, making effective changes, developing fully our potential and attaining more satisfying results.

I am a licensed person-centred counselor, wellness coach and mindfulness trainer who also holds a doctoral degree in the social sciences.

I have a private practice in Amsterdam and specialises in grief and loss, stress, anxiety and burn-out, cultural tensions and high sensitivity.

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I am a life, career and leadership coach. I help my clients get a clear understanding of what they really want from their lives and careers and I assist them throughout their journeys of change. This includes building new awareness and acquiring new skills necessary to take them to their new destination. Prior to becoming a coach, I worked as a corporate lawyer for more than 15 years and I bring a lot of transferrable skills to my coaching practice. I am kind, curious and solution oriented, I am a good and compassionate listener, I have a critical mind and I am not afraid to challenge easy answers.

As most professional expat women, I am familiar with the challenges of living, working and having a family abroad. Helping other expats find their way and build a joyful life is one my main purposes as a coach.

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I’ve been working in the corporate world for more than 10 years – starting in Siemens telecom division and seeing it merge with Nokia, moving into financial services – ING Bank, ING Insurance, payment services and currently ABN Amro. While building my career towards department head and team lead, I understood that what is driving performance, and gets people motivated is not a fancy office, coffee machine or their salary, but something else. I became curious to find out…

I specialize in coaching for:

• Career, executive, transition to management coaching
• Coaching for starters – how to land that job? What to look for in a company?
• Changing careers – discovering what you really want to do

Also training:

• Coaching culture in organisations
• Diversity coaching and group training on diversity
• Body language, public speaking
• Team dynamics
• Bias and how to work with it

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As a certified person-centred counsellor and coach, I create an atmosphere of acceptance and trust where my clients will be able to discover their abilities and to find solutions. I believe that everyone has the capability to make the life changes they want. However, sometimes emotions or external factors are making change difficult. I see my role as that of a facilitator, a motivator, an impartial and confidential helping hand.

During a career in astrophysics in which I have been lecturing, tutoring and mentoring students and young researchers, I have developed a particular sensitivity to the problems of people pursuing competitive careers, to intercultural communication and to the challenges of balancing career and family life.

In one-to-one sessions I help clients to achieve their goals, such as making career choices, career improvement, developing efficient study plans, public speaking, better self-esteem, self-discipline, self-compassion, better communication, overcoming stress.

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My role as the coach / trainer is to empower my clients to move from where they are now to where they want to be by creating awareness and responsibility within them to find their own answers. I will be there to help facilitate and support this change.

I feel that it is my role in life to help facilitate this through the coaching, mentoring and training I provide.

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Malgosia is a business and career coach. After working in different corporations for many years and observing people struggling with confidence, motivation, and changes, she decided to help people strengthen their skills and bring them to the point they would like to be. In her work she brings an empathy and positive attitude for everybody going through changes while challenging the habits and helping to find and apply solutions together.

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Mariapia Di Palma holds an MSc in International Management from Bocconi University, Italy, and the Certified Co-Active Coach (CPCC) designation from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in the USA. She is also an accredited Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), and is certified in the Leadership Circle Profile™ by The Leadership Circle. Mariapia is currently certifying in Conversational Intelligence® for coaches at the Creating We Institute.

In her role as leadership and development coach at The Blackboard Tree, Mariapia works with individuals, teams and organizations to help them achieve their potential and create sustainable competitive advantage in their learning and development journey.

Mariapia plays a fundamental role in facilitating both young talent and more senior professionals in their personal and professional development in areas such as leadership, change management, communication, teamwork and team dynamics, confidence building and self-awareness, talent development.

She works at best with high potential clients in self-discovery of their own leadership style, professional passion, as well as discovering their role in their team / organization, while being faced with personal and/or professional challenges. Her clients include Master/MBA students, young professionals, NGO owners, consultants, social entrepreneurs, and more seasoned business executives, who all have in common being in a transition phase towards greater contribution to their social and business environment (for which impact they need greater self-reflection, deeper observation, practice of learning goals, application of acquired new knowledge and vision).

In her coaching, Mariapia makes use of action learning plans and development models that focus on:

• leadership competences, personal traits, psychological tests, limiting beliefs, mental models;
• conversational intelligence and mastery of effective communication;
• career coaching; peer coaching / peer mentoring skills;
• definition of personal and team action learning plan; leadership and team effectiveness;
• presence and confidence.

Mariapia focuses her coaching/training practices on theories and relevant research derived from the fields of management, leadership, education and positive psychology.

In her free time, Mariapia highly enjoys traveling, cooking, photography, reading, and friends.

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Hello, I’m Michelle.

I’m a qualified Transformational Life Coach supporting individuals to navigate through various life transitions with confidence and clarity.

I see my role as coach to empower clients to tap into their own inner wisdom and resourcefulness to achieve their goals and design the life they want.  I love seeing clients experience insights about themselves or their surroundings that lead to transformation.

I’m curious, compassionate, a good listener and not afraid to ask the tough questions!

A little about me.

After more than 10 years in consumer marketing roles in Sydney, Australia,  I took my very own ‘Eat, Pray, Love’  journey around the world. Not only did I meet my future (Dutch) husband during my year of travel but I also got clear about my purpose and passion in my life – guiding and cheerleading others to pursue their passions and live life on their own terms.

I’m a lover of good food, wine, travel and yoga and proud mumma of two boys.

To get in touch please email me at michellemourits1@gmail.com

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I am an international, dedicated and results-driven coach whose passion is to challenge and enable you to take action to make the necessary changes to help you reach your goals. I will encourage you to remain committed and to stay on track. The more powerful the focus on your goal, the more motivated you will be!

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I am a Co-Active coach with a strong background in business and a Master degree in Communication Science. I have held several corporate jobs in widely differing business & cultural context and, I guess you could say, I am a big fan of change. My belief is that we are constantly either getting out of a change, currently undergoing one or preparing ourselves for the change to come. With this in mind, I work together with my clients to help support their own personal and professional change and expansion with a goal of a positive, desired transformation.

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In my role as coach I focus on life and outcome coaching. As life coach I approach the issues at hand from a holistic perspective. Furthermore, I always like to dig a bit deeper to find out what the need is behind the want. Sometimes, the chosen path might not be the right one to fulfill the hidden desire. After it has become clear what you as a client want, I then like to focus on outcome coaching. In this way I help you get very clear on your goal and assist you moving forward and navigating any (internal) barriers you encounter along the way.

My education in this field has been focused around NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), being a certified master-practioner, certified trainer and specialized in dealing with health and well-being. I have studied mindfulness, self-compassion as well as nature coaching. I am presently rounding off my studies in person-centered counselling as well as NLP therapy.

I live in the vicinity of The Hague. I have the Dutch nationality, but was born and raised abroad as the child of expats. I am bi-lingual and provide coaching in English and Dutch.

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Hi, my name is Stefania.

As person-centred (job) coach practitioner and certified Talentenspel® coach, I act as a resource facilitator. In this role I support, inspire and challenge people through the phases of a change or of a transition period.

You identify your questions and achievements. Together we explore your resources (skills, abilities, competences, knowledge, gifts) and your choices, in how to use them. Together we strengthen your confidence, activate your awareness and inner responsibility. Correspondingly, you choose how far you want to act.

I am currently finalizing my Master’s in person-centred coaching in Zeist, the Netherlands. If you would like to make an appointment with me, please email me at sgarosio@gmail.com

I coach in Italian, German, Dutch and English.

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Hello, I’m Vanessa! I’ve been a certified Life Coach since 2004, with a specialization in communication, mindset, and health. My goal is to empower individuals to effectively construct happy, healthy, meaningful, and productive lives. I use a results oriented 6 step process to support the changes clients want to make, no matter what area of life they are focusing on (job, relationship, health, etc).

Using strategy and intuition, I help clients learn how to present themselves at their best, as they want to be seen, so they can better connect with the opportunities life presents. I’ve found that developing an inner sense of fierceness and confidence goes a long way when it comes to changing something in your life. Strategies can be learned. Tools can be gained. The energy you put out can be cultivated. I focus on all three.

A bit about me – I’m originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, have a passion for food, nature, window shopping, positive social impact and entrepreneurship. I’m also the founder of two local skillshare groups in Utrecht, where we create community through learning. More about my professional and educational background at linkedin.com/in/vanessasmith and my coaching approach at vasmith.com

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My name is Verginia Spier, blogger, coach and counselor.

My experience

After almost 25 years working in various positions, among others, manager, senior officer, head client service team in the financial world, there was a sense of dissatisfaction about seven years ago. Did it have everything I had been looking for? I have been researching to find out what I missed in my life. In 2011 I started my own Practice counseling and coaching Joyousness. I have a lot of fun and am grateful for the feedback I receive from my clients.

• My education
• NLP Practitioner
• NLP Master Practitioner
• Counseling with Imagination
• Dutch Training to Enneagram Coach
• Strengthope accredited Coach
• Strengthope Team accredited partner

I do extra training every year. As a coach I use these methodologies

• Mindfulness in coaching
• Deal with resistance
• Solution-oriented counseling
• NLP

My mission

My biggest motivation is Reflect. What I mean by this is a way of understanding and analyzing experiences and giving them meaning. Reflection is the process whereby information is converted into meaning, by gaining insight into your motives and motivations. .This gives you room to work on your own development. I would like to share my knowledge and experience with others. That is why I founded CoCoJoyousness.

My vision

I believe that everyone has a talent. Together with you, I want you to get acquainted with your talents and possibilities.

“Look in the mirror. Within it is a source of good that never ceases to flow. As long as you do not stop examining yourself.” – Marcus Aurelius

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I work as a holistic practitioner and life coach, for more than 20 years, I assist people who want to make profound positive changes in their lives.

Certified as a Soul Coach, Past Life Coach, and Mindfulness Trainer, I work with you through one on one coaching sessions which are designed to support you in your everyday life and beyond.

Using powerful techniques, we explore your relationship with yourself and others, and move beyond the blockages and stuck-ness, into a positive flow, in any area of your life that you would like to transform. The results are tangible as your energy increases, and your life becomes purposeful. Being true to your authentic self is the key to understanding your life’s purpose.