Executive coaching
Developing Yourself as a Leader with Executive Coaching
Life as an executive leader is like an extreme sport: the mental demands are high. Your day is typically fully scheduled, moving from one critical meeting to the next, each with vastly different topics where your perspective or decision is crucial.
You’re not only yourself; you are always a symbol of your employer, with people around you interpreting your behavior and drawing conclusions beyond your knowledge or control.
Being an executive also demands significant sacrifices, with much you must set aside.
Yet, life as an executive can be deeply meaningful. Few people have the same ability to shape things in their desired direction. Whether you seek power, wealth, success, privilege, intellectual challenges, or the chance to make the world a better place, you can pursue it as an executive.
Life as an executive is also an extreme sport in the sense that you must manage your energy and performance levels like an elite athlete. Developing yourself as an executive is fundamentally about ensuring you have the energy to perform daily and sustain it over the long haul.
Personal Coaching
A personalized coaching process is often far more effective for you as an executive than a standardized leadership program. As an executive, you’ve likely participated in numerous leadership courses and seminars, and perhaps you’ve read everything you need to know about leadership.
You’ve had many years to hone your leadership skills, and your toolkit is likely well-established.
Personal coaching is a journey of discovery that yields the best results if you remain open to what may unfold. You’ll have the opportunity to explore what truly matters to you and how to harness the energy needed to perform each day. You’ll find a direction for your leadership development that feels natural to you. You’ll also uncover what it takes to continue excelling in your work while maintaining balance in other important areas of life: friends, family, health, and the good life in all its dimensions.
What can you work on during an Executive Coaching Program?
You can work on both concrete challenges and on constant improvement. These themes are just examples:
Transformations
How do you mobilize the organization’s strengths—and your own—to navigate a transformation?
Leadership in Headwinds
How do you manage your role in times of crisis or when you’re running out of energy?
Renew Your Leadership Team’s Energy
The best teams achieve significantly more together than they would individually. And that depends on you.
Your Own Energy
How do you harness your energy to not only meet your current challenges but to sustain yourself over the long term?
Rediscover Meaning
How do you make your work meaningful again and regain a sense of making a difference?
Ethical Dilemmas
What is the right course of action in a difficult situation? Which path will allow you to look back with pride on the decisions you’ve made?
How Does a Coaching Process Work?
We meet at my office in Copenhagen, where I have an inviting space right by the canals of Christianshavn. Virtual meetings are also an option, though I find that in-person sessions are generally more effective. Additionally, there are a few days each month when I travel to meet clients.
In the first session, we typically cover what you’d like to work on and confirm whether we’re a good match—that is, that I believe I can help you and that you feel you’ll benefit from the process.
A coaching process usually consists of 10 sessions. We tailor the frequency of meetings based on your needs, whether weekly, monthly, or anything in between. Along the way, we assess together if we’re on track and progressing as planned.
No two coaching processes are the same. It’s common for 10-15 sessions to fully address a particular issue, but my goal is always for clients to require as few sessions as possible. Sometimes, more sessions are necessary. Throughout, we build a solid foundation that will support you over the long term.
An Executive Coaching program is for you if you:
Need to implement a new strategy, a major transformation, or another large project
Are building a new leadership team or taking responsibility for an existing one
Must lead a team or organization through a crisis
Are facing challenges that demand skills you have yet to master
Have ambitions to be the best leader you can be
Want to achieve better results while enhancing well-being
Wish for your leadership role to feel natural and sustainable
Book an Executive Coaching Program
Get in touch today, and let’s find a time to discuss what you’d like to work on and whether a coaching program is the right fit for you.
How I Work with Executive Coaching
I have served as an HR executive at the VP and SVP levels in international companies and have been involved in numerous large-scale transformations. I’m trained as a psychotherapist and studied philosophy, and I’ve been both a sailor and a senior leader. As a business coach, I can therefore address your business challenges concretely, while also offering personal coaching to explore your approach to leadership and where you are in life—because, ultimately, it all ties together.
On my journey from sailor to senior leader, I’ve met people from all walks of life and across the globe, learning that those with wisdom and dignity live meaningful lives in countless ways. The professional world is often marked by competition for status, but we put that on hold when we work together. You can be yourself, and you can count on me to meet you without judgment, helping you explore your path with me as an experienced guide.
Many leadership models are out there, and most have a short lifespan. They gain quick traction on LinkedIn, spawn books, and sometimes tests, only to fade away gradually. I keep an eye on these trends but don’t commit to any of them. My approach focuses on timeless questions. I help you find a leadership role that feels meaningful and authentic to you. And I support you in navigating the tough choices and challenges that come with life as an executive.
Who Are My Clients
As a business coach, my typical client is a senior executive or middle manager in a larger organization. This might include a board member facing a transformation, a middle manager seeking general leadership development, or a newly promoted leader looking to enhance their team leadership skills.
I welcome clients from nearly all backgrounds—whether you’re a senior executive, middle manager, or employee, from a large or small organization, private or public. I’m not concerned with how many stripes you have on your shoulder; what matters to me is working with clients who have something at stake and are motivated to invest in their personal development.
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Executive coaching is a personal development process tailored to the unique challenges an executive leader may face. For executives, coaching often involves the whole person, as the energy needed to consistently perform at a high level must be drawn from both work and personal life.
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You can get support for all the personal challenges you face as an executive leader. This might include business coaching on how to handle a crisis or a transformation, personal coaching on sustaining the energy needed to maintain your desired level of performance, or guidance on rediscovering a sense of meaning in your work.