LEADERSHIP COACH IN AMSTERDAM

OR ONLINE

Hi, I'm Hannah - a leadership coach in Amsterdam and online.

I partner as a coach for leaders, founders, small business owners, or anyone who wants to work on their self-leadership or inner-leadership.

I believe that leadership is largely about how we lead ourselves.

How do I make choices? How do I show up? Can I stay connected to myself as I navigate challenge or growth? How does my story influence or shape my style of leadership?

As an experienced coach, I hold space and guide you to deepen your self trust, sense of identity and success, and deeply connect you to an aligned and embodied version of leadership.

Leadership coaching is for career, business, life... But most importantly, it's for you.

BOOK A discounted TRY OUT SESSION

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WHAT IS LEADERSHIP COACHING?

My approach to leadership coaching is to partner with you and hold space for you to work through + manage the ups and downs of knowing and leading yourself, and the realities of being a leader in whatever your position is.

It is a collaborative process, where the coach facilitates you to explore your relationship with yourself and your sense of leadership. That could be anything from defining your vision + objectives, regulating stress, creating space to level up and grow your small business, or finding consistent motivation to get through your to do lists.

It is worth clarifying what makes my leadership coaching different, is that it is personal and has a therapeutic touch. It is not surface level leadership performance - it is more about your sense of self and identity, your self trust, your self belief, your courage and embodiment. I hold the space and offer you the tools to create the conditions for yourself to succeed. I firmly believe you already have everything you need inside you - it's a case of drawing it out and utilising it in the best way for you.

Arrange a discounted introductory session with me and we can discuss your needs and how we could work together.

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WHAT DOES A SMALL BUSINESS COACH DO?

HOW DOES SMALL BUSINESS COACHING WITH ME WORK?

WHY WORK WITH ME?

WHAT CHALLENGES CAN SMALL BUSINESS COACHES WORK WITH?

TESTIMONIALS

PACKAGES + PRICES

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WHAT DOES A LEADERSHIP COACH DO?

A leadership coach works as a thinking partner to help you more deeply explore how you want your business or life to work, how you show up, and how you relate and exist to the world around you.

They help you connect your professional and personal goals so that you and your business can evolve + work in better alignment with yourself.

A leadership coach is there to hold space for you and support you. They will, most importantly, listen to you, then offer questions, exercises, and various methods to help you identify what is in your way, explore any beliefs that are holding you back, and help you start to unstick yourself and move towards the space you want to be.

As your leadership coach, I am there to keep you connected to why you're doing what you're doing, keep you on track and hold you accountable.

I am not here to tell you what you should do, what I would do, or what success should look like for you.

I am here to hold dedicated time and space for you to think about one of the most important things in your life - your relationship with yourself and own sense of agency!

TELL ME ABOUT YOU + your small business

WHAT DOES A BUSINESS COACH DO?

WHY WORK WITH ME AS YOUR LEADERSHIP COACH IN AMSTERDAM OR ONLINE?

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My career, business and life experience, as well as professional training, has put me in a natural position to be a leadership coach.

I have worked as a strategist for businesses like eBay, Google, Tinder, adidas + Danone - so I get numbers, profit, KPIs and growth.

I also have experience holding space for the stuff you can't put numbers to in my yoga teaching and coaching training.

I also have my own personal lived experience of imagining, creating, and growing my own small business. I did my own concepting, business planning & logo and website designing, and am constantly exploring how I can support myself and find support around me. I can fully empathise with the various professional and personal influences and challenges that a small business owner deals with.

However, I strongly believe that success looks different to everyone, so I am a good fit for you if you want to work with someone who will hold space for you without jumping to conclusions, without judging, and without expectation.

I offer discounted try out sessions. So if you're interested, let's have a chat and see if we're a good match.

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WHY WORK WITH ME?

HOW DO my LEADERSHIP COACHING services WORK?

Deep-dive kick-off session (2-hr)

A 2-hr session to explore everything that's going on for you and your goals.

You'll complete a reflective worksheet beforehand.

This session creates the groundwork for our work together.

Holding session / Another block /

One off sessions

Once you finish your block, you may feel happy with where we get to and choose to wrap it up.

There is also the option for:

a) Holding Session-

We review + note down the insights, tools + other things that will keep you on track

b) Another Block-

Coaching can be like a ball of string. You may want to keep unravelling something and keep up the work

c) One Off Sessions-

If you'd like to dip back in every now and then, I offer one off sessions to work or move through anything on your mind

Ready to get things moving?
Let's talk about what you want to work on and where you want to go.

Say hello!

Let's introduce ourselves + have a discounted intake session about your situation.

Ask any questions about how I work, how I can help, and any more practical things.

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Regular (1-hr) sessions

Depending on your goals + situation, you can sign up for 3 or 6 months of bi-weekly sessions.

The content + approach is tailored to you + your needs.

Perhaps interactive tools in session, journaling exercises between sessions, or simply talking.

I'm always here

for you!

You're always welcome to reach out to me in the future.

Sometimes a 6 or 12 month break is nice before another stint of coaching work.

I am happy to work with you over as short or long period of time that is right for you.

BOOK A DISCOUNTED FIRST APPOINTMENT

HOW DO MY BUSINESS COACHING SERVICES WORK?

WHEN WOULD BUSINESS OWNERS CONSIDER A BUSINESS COACH?

WHen WOULD founders, ENTREPRENEURS OR small business owners CONSIDER A LEADERSHIP COACH?

Running your own business can be liberating, fun and personally challenging.

In many cases, it's tricky to separate yourself from your business, or, the other way round, to bring more of you in to it.

You might find a business coach if you want help with:

Navigating the rollercoaster of running your own business
Developing greater self-belief and self-esteem
Managing anxiety and stress
Setting + managing boundaries
Replenishing sense of wellbeing, energy and balance
Articulating your vision and setting goals
Connecting with your creativity
Creating strategies, structures + frameworks for (sustainable!) growth or action
Making useful plans, and sticking to them

READY FOR SOME SUPPORT? LET'S TALK

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Good question! This car driving analogy is a useful one...

In coaching, you are focused on driving. Moving. Going somewhere. You might ocassionally look in the rear view mirror to investigate what's going on behind you, mostly to serve the pupose of helping you continue to move.

In counselling (or therapy), you spend more time looking in the rear view mirror. You might even get out of the car and take a walk back down the road you came from to understand what brought you here.

In consulting, you hire a co-driver. They help you clarify where you want to go, and then give you advice and ideas of how to best get there.

Coaching is not a substitute for therapy or mental health treatment.

Coaching is not about giving advice.

Coaching is about helping you find your own movement.

1- COACHING

The coaching industry is not regulated. Anyone can call themselves a coach.

I am an ICF-certified Life + Business Coach - trained by Barefoot Coaching in H1 2021.

The course is approved by University of Chester, and is accredited by the International Coaching Federation - an international body who set moral, ethical and training standards for coaches to adhere to. It is also endorsed by the National Council of Psychotherapists.

I undertake extra CPD every year, like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Tools for Coaches with Barefoot Coaching, Mental Health First Aid with MHFA England, Relational Self Awareness with PESI.

Importantly, I also undertake monthly supervision from an experienced and EMCC-certified coaching supervisor to continue developing the safety and skill of my coaching practice.

2- YOGA

I am a 400hr qualified, advanced yoga teacher via Stretch London / Frog Lotus Yoga.

Most recently, 150hr Advanced Therapeutic Teacher Yoga training. Led by 2 senior yoga teachers and a counsellor, this focused more on holding therapeutic space for students in a way that focuses on the whole person - not just body or mind.

The first, 250hr Vinyasa teacher training.

This was about understanding the tradition of yoga, as well as exploring how the body and movement can create more freedom or intimacy with the mind/ego.

3- STRATEGY CONSULTANT

I have 10 years experience working in the creative communications industry.

I have been a brand strategist in advertising agencies, working on brands like eBay, Tinder, adidas + Danone, and continue to freelance from time to time.

Sessions are 75-min (apart from the first session of containers, which is 2hrs, and intake sessions which are 45-minutes).

If you are new to coaching and want more intensive and continued support, I recommend that you sign up for a quarter or half year container in order to make deep and sustainable change through a season of life.

If you want a more flexible or less intensive approach, and have done coaching or something similar before, then you could go for a block of sessions that you can use any time over 12 months.

Absolutely! Of course it is wonderful to do coaching in person, and I DO have a very mooi practice by the Amstel (check out Stories, Sarphatistraat). But doing coaching online has many other pros and offers something different to the experience that in-person doesn't.

I am more than happy to do all, some, or a few of our sessions online.

This is also a solution for people who either travel a lot for work, find it hard to travel to and from my practice before / during / after work, perhaps split their time between 2 cities, or simply would just prefer to do their coaching sessions online.

The most important thing when looking for a coach, is to find someone you click with.

The relationship is the most important thing. Find a coach who you feel safe talking to, who you feel you can open up to, express yourself to, feel un-judged by. Find someone who you feel can create the right kind of space with you over the time you work together and gradually bring the best out of you.

For example, you might find a coach who has amazing business success for their clients, but that does not necessarily mean they will help you go as deep as you can go to create the best version of success for you. Listen to your intstincts of how a coach makes you feel and then trust the rest of the process to follow.

Most coaches offer trial sessions so that you can see what it feels like before investing further. Sometimes these intake sessions are free. I no longer offer free first sessions due to limited availability and because I have found it works better to have more time to talk about your situation and get in to how we could work together. Therefore, I offer a discounted 45-min try out session. Book here.

If you would like to touch base first or ask any practical questions, I am very open to exchanging emails or having a quick 10 min chat on the phone before you book anything. Please contact me on hannah@takecoachingamsterdam.nl for this.

I offer life coaching, business coaching, career coaching.

These are pretty top level though. If you work with me, you will find out that, even though you came for e.g. career coaching, you will end up talking about life, relationships, confidence etc. too. These things are all linked!

My niche or expertise, is anything related to work e.g. career change, career development, work life balance, starting a business, going self employed, managing how you run your business, feeling more confident at work, balancing work with relationships, wellbeing and balance, sense of self, changes in identity due to work or lifestages, etc.