FOR THOSE WHO HOLD ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY
Executive coaching
The Hague or online.
The Hague or online.
You sit in a position where most people no longer give you real feedback. Your team looks up to you, your peers have their own agenda, and at home no one wants to talk about work again. The decisions stay with you and the stakes are high.
From the outside it often looks controlled. From the inside you know better.
There are doubts you do not share with your board. There are questions about what this work asks of you, about how you keep landing, and about what comes after this phase. You need someone who understands the level of your position and yet has no stake in your interest. Someone who makes room for what you cannot say out loud elsewhere.
The language of leadership often sounds clear. Set the vision, hold the course, take people with you. Practice is less orderly. Beneath the roles and routines lies a reality that is harder to share.
At your level, relationships are often coloured. Colleagues have their positions, investors have stakes, advisors want to stay on. Who still asks you something without an agenda?
You hit numbers, you make decisions, you come through quarters. And still, in quiet moments, the feeling can arise that something is running on reserve. That you are building things you have less and less feeling for.
What you do and who you are have become entangled. That makes you effective. But also vulnerable when the role shrinks or no longer fits.
Executive coaching with me does not mean we make you perform faster. It means we look at who sits beneath the role and what that person needs in order to lead in a sustainable way.
We go beyond the visible subjects. Not what you have to decide, but from which inner compass you decide. Not how you steer your team better, but what steers you when you steer. That brings up insights that do not come from a book or a leadership program.
Sessions last 1.5 to 2 hours. Long enough to get past the first layers. Short enough to fit your agenda. Everything is welcome. Without judgement, with full attention.
Confidentiality at your level is not a formality. What is said here goes nowhere else.
Sessions take place on location in The Hague (indoor or outdoor), online, or a combination.
Leaders who come here for a while often notice that it is not so much their functioning that changes, but the layer they function from. That sounds subtle. In practice it is substantial.
You react less from reflex. Where others escalate, you wait. Where others freeze, you cut through. Those differences become visible to yourself and to your environment.
When an option is logical on paper but something in you pulls back, you learn to take those signals seriously. That keeps you from going down paths you later regret.
You learn to tell the difference between work that still gives you something and work that only costs. That is crucial for anyone who wants to stay at this level for the long run.
Your identity leans less on your title. That makes you stronger in the current role and frees you for what comes after. And brings lightness and pleasure back.
With your board, with your team, with yourself. You learn to take them on sooner. That saves time and conflict later.
Executive coaching is a broad term. The market has many forms working under the same name. Let me briefly say what this is not and then what it is.
This is not performance coaching. There are executive coaches who focus on higher KPIs, faster decision-making, more assertive communication. That work is valuable, it is not my focus. If your question lies in that area, there are colleagues who can do that more sharply than I can.
Nor is this advice under another name. Some executive coaches work with frameworks and models they apply to every case. You then get a diagnosis and an intervention plan. That can be useful for acute problems. It is rarely what I do.
What you find at Cohere is a conversation that starts with what you bring and not with what I already know. We work with what shows up in the moment. Sometimes that is a strategic question, sometimes a personal layer, sometimes something in your body that gives a signal your head has not picked up yet.
I work from three pillars at once. Psychology, for what lies beneath behaviour and patterns. Systemic work, for how your position shapes you and which loyalties or unspoken rules play along. And an integral, experience-based approach, in which we do not only think but also experience what shifts when you stand differently.
That asks for more commitment than a solution-focused track. It also brings something different. Not faster leadership, but clearer. Not more control, but more honest contact with what you do and why. And from there you sail the course that fits you again.
I work with leaders who feel their role touches them at a layer that tools and frameworks do not reach. My approach combines Western psychology, systemic work and Eastern wisdom traditions. No fixed step-by-step plan, no quick fix. But room to see more deeply what is actually going on and to move from there with more clarity. I work on location in The Hague. Sessions live indoor or outdoor, online or in combination.
Each package starts with a no-obligation introduction. We discuss your situation and look together at which package suits you. The sessions after that last 1.5 to 2 hours, so we can stand still with you with all the room and attention, without rush or pressure.
A compass for those who want to take a first step. In three sessions we look at what is going on, you recognise your patterns, beliefs and stories and you get fresh insights to take into your work straight away.
For those who want to go to the core. In six sessions we create room for essential change. You explore who you are beyond your patterns, beliefs and stories, and learn to live and work from there.
For specific questions such as (impending) burnout, grief, major life changes or reintegration. A package fully tuned to what you need.
Get in touch for a no-obligation proposal
After a completed package you can always come back for a single session of 1.5 to 2 hours. For a check-in, deepening, or when something new shows up on your path.
Many employers reimburse coaching through the training budget, so it is worth asking. Are the costs a barrier for you? Let me know. There is sometimes room.
In a no-obligation introduction we explore together what is going on and whether there is a click. No commitments, just an honest conversation.
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