For executives and management
Leadership coaching for those who set the tone.
Presence that resonates with the people around you — and what changes when that state shifts. Always at the practice in Utrecht.
Those who lead from tension, organize tension. Those who lead from a grounded place, create space.
Ten two-hour sessions, scheduled over several months by mutual agreement. This work is about what happens in a room — which is why it always takes place in person, and not through a screen.
Schedule an introductory meeting → 30-minute introduction · free of charge · online or in Utrecht
Six recurring situations
It rarely starts with leadership.
Hardly anyone signs up for executive coaching because they want to lead better. It starts with a situation that cannot be resolved with the tools that worked until then. Six of these recur constantly.
- A decision has been made, but there is no movement. Agreed upon on paper, but in practice, nothing happens.
- The real conversation takes place after the meeting, in the hallway.
- A style that worked for years produces something other than intended in this role.
- A reorganization where a direction must be championed that still feels heavy internally.
- A role that arrived faster than the experience required for it.
- The difference between what is said and how it is received.
What these situations have in common: they are not questions of knowledge. No model exists to solve them, and more decisiveness usually makes them larger rather than smaller. They play out in the space between people — and that space is largely determined by the state of the person leading the way.
That is where this work begins. Not with a style or a model, but with personal leadership in the most literal sense: what of you is present in the room before you say a word.
What the work does
What others notice first.
Leadership coaching here is not a training in communication skills nor a model to be applied. It works on the state from which one leads — and that is not a skill, but a physiological reality.
The change is therefore rarely dramatic. It is subtle, and the people around you usually notice it before you do.
Under pressure
Space is created between what happens and how it is handled. Not reacting more slowly, but reacting from something other than the first impulse. That difference is small, and it is visible to everyone in the room.
In what people bring
Those who feel safe report bad news sooner. How much information reaches a leader depends less on their door than on their state — people read this flawlessly and adapt accordingly.
Before anything is said
A room reacts to whoever enters even before a word is spoken. Those who pay attention to this need to persuade less — something has already been communicated without words.
What it is not: learning a new style. Style is the effect, not the cause, and tinkering with effects costs more effort than it yields.
The trajectory
Ten sessions, and the time in between.
Leadership coaching follows the same program as the other individual programs: ten two-hour sessions, scheduled over several months by mutual agreement. What differs is not the format, but the subject of the conversation.
The weeks between two sessions are not a break. What shifts in a session needs time to resonate — and in an executive's schedule, that is often the only moment when something can sink in.
All sessions take place at the practice at Oorsprongpark in Utrecht. This work is about what happens in a room between people, and that cannot be done through a screen.
Scope
Ten two-hour sessions
Rhythm
In consultation, usually over several months
Location
Het Coachhuis · Oorsprongpark 7, Utrecht
Introduction
30 minutes, free of charge — online or in Utrecht
Investment
€3,500 excl. VAT
For the full ten-session program · payment in installments is possible
The working method, the foundations on which this work rests, where it ends, and frequently asked questions can be found on the page about individual coaching. The trajectory is described there in its entirety.
Prior
Before we begin.
The subject is you, not the organization. A program is often requested because something is happening within a team, a board, or a reorganization. That is a good reason to start. But what we examine is the place from which you stand within it. If the conversation remains focused on others, little will happen.
It requires time, which is scarce. Ten two-hour sessions, plus the travel to Utrecht. In a busy schedule, this is no minor detail, and this work does not fit well between two appointments. Those who cannot clear the space would do better to wait until they can.
What is discussed here, stays here. Even when the organization pays. No feedback is provided to HR or a manager. If a client wants to know if the program is progressing, you decide what is shared about it.
And sometimes 'leader' is not the word. If the question lies primarily with the business itself — the pace, the decisions, the place the company occupies — then entrepreneurial coaching is a better fit. If it plays out outside of work, at a turning point or during recovery, then that is personal coaching. The program is the same; the conversation is about something else.
And sometimes it doesn't lie with one person. If the question truly lies in the dynamics of a team — in what is and isn't said between people — then team coaching is the shorter path. This usually becomes clear during the introductory meeting.
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Thirty minutes, and you will know enough.
Free of charge and without obligation. The meeting can take place online; the sessions themselves are always at the practice in Utrecht. We explore what is happening and whether this way of working is a fit. What is said remains between us — even if an organization is involved.
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