EXECUTIVE COACHING AMSTERDAM
COACHING THE HUMANS BEHIND THE BUSINESS
I'm Hannah Ray - an ICF-certified personal and professional coach, mental health first aider and yoga therapist.
Before owning my own coaching practice, I spent over a decade as a strategist in advertising agencies including 72andSunny, TBWA and St Luke's London running strategy workshops, research groups, and holding rooms that mixed junior and C-suite. I know what high-performance cultures ask of and influence the people inside them, and how much of leadership actually happens below the level of simply skills and frameworks.
I coach the humans behind your business to better support and manage their wellbeing and energy, whilst also creating the conditions for them to evolve their courage and capacity to take ownership of their success and professional development in work.
I've worked with teams and people at companies including Chanel, LexisNexis, Tony's Chocolonely, Fastned and University College Amsterdam, and hopefully look forward to working with you too.
Some companies I've coached people from:
EXECUTIVE COACHING - 1:1
For leaders, managers, junior and senior people alike who are carrying more than the job description suggests.
We work on things like:
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Self-leadership: how you make choices, how you show up, and staying connected to yourself while under pressure
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Identity: what happens to your sense of self when a role changes, a company restructures, or the promotion arrives and feels different than expected
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Confidence and competence: when self-doubt creeps in, especially for people who look like they have it handled
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Burnout and energy: patterns, recovery, balance, boundaries, and building a more sustainable relationship with work
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New dynamics: a new leadership team, a merger, a boss who works differently, managing people who used to be peers
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Tricky conversations: feedback, boundaries, pay, letting people go, saying the difficult thing
Delivered as a block of sessions or a quarter/half-year coaching journey.
I also offer Drop In Days. Where I come to your office (or event space) 1-2 times per month for a day, and your employees can book a session with me.
If you'd like to arrange Drop In Day, or multiple employees to take on 1:1 coaching with me, please get in touch to discuss options and partnerships.
TEAM COACHING
Is your team going through a cultural wobble or meaningful moment of change? Is there a desire or need to connect together or get back on their feet?
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Perhaps a shake up in team dynamics and trust due to restructuring, redundancies or rapid company growth?
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Managers getting to grips with new responsibilities?
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Launching new workflows that encourage more healthy ways of working?
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Creating safe space to talk about things, grow confidence, feel connected?
Teams don't usually struggle for lack of skill here. They struggle with trust, unspoken expectations, work identity shifts, life stuff going on outside of work, old habits, and the things nobody says out loud.
I hold space that creates the conditions for a team to have conversations about how things are, what things mean, and what needs to happen moving forwards.
My style is warm, human, and inclusive.
COACHING WORKSHOPS
I support your employees with all things work, leadership, wellbeing, purpose.
I offer workshops, sharing circles, group coaching, or yoga therapy sessions on topics like:
✨ Managing energy and regulating stress
✨ Improving confidence and resilience
✨ Creating healthier communication and relationships amongst colleagues
✨ Embracing your strengths, values and purpose
I make it a priority that my workshops give your employees something they can internalise and take it away with them.
Think practical exercises, visualisations, tangible tools and insights that get totally personalised to themselves and put in to practice.
This is about getting out of your head and not just sitting through another meeting like you probably have been doing day-in-day-out.
WHO THIS IS FOR
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HR and People leads who want to offer something more human than another engagement survey or pure performance coaching to their employees
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HR and People leads who want something more personalised, attuned and premium than another BetterUp or OpenUp platform coach
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Leaders and managers who want coaching for their people, not a course. Founders whose team is outgrowing how it used to work
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Companies navigating change and trying to keep their people intact through it
If you're not sure what's right for your situation, tell me what's going on and I'll come back to you with whether I could be a good fit to explore working with. If so, we can book a call and go from there.
Restructures, redundancy and difficult seasons
This is work I care deeply about. I've been through it myself, and I've worked with many clients through some of the harder moments that a company has. Most of my private clients come to me in this way.
I coach thoughtful people who care about work, who are going through a restructure, whose roles are at risk, or who are being made redundant. I also coach the people who remain, who are often left holding some guilt, uncertainty and the workload without much support.
I'll hold the difficult parts with compassion and honesty. No forced positivity, no pretending it's a growth opportunity if it isn't (sometimes it's just a bit shit, right?). Everything is welcome at this table.
Your employees' wellbeing and supporting them to find a way forward that feels right for them is my priority.
