Leadership Coaching

 

I am Katrien Nachtergaele: leadership coach, former HR executive, and expat several times over. I coach leaders who create their impact while staying human. Leaders with heart who get stuff done with respect, dignity and calm.

I help leaders translate their good intentions into behaviours that get results. Your most powerful lever and most valuable resource is how you respond to people and situations that trigger you. I can help you learn to manage them so you can keep calm and see clearly what needs to be done when it matters.

Create your own serendipity: work with me!

Work on what you can control

There will always be people who don’t behave as you’d hope. People you don’t understand, or you find plain irritating.

There will be setbacks. Stuff happens.

You can’t possibly change or avoid them all. You’re much better off spending your energy where it actually makes a difference: the way you respond to those people and the setbacks. This you can control.

Some of the topics I’ve worked on with clients:

  • Gain influence and promote alignment among your peers

  • Manage yourself so you can think clearly and act decisively in the heat of the moment

  • Start strong when newly promoted or hired

  • Ready yourself for greater responsibility

  • Lead as a human being, with empathy, compassion, and real connection - even when you are yourself under pressure

  • Coach people to develop and grow

  • Help teams build effective ways of working

  • “Katrien's coaching was invaluable during two major team restructurings - across Google Assistant and Bard. She taught me to lead with empathy, and shared effective strategies on how to maintain a resilient and focused team in uncertain times. Her guidance was both supportive and practical. I wholeheartedly recommend Katrien for her clear, compassionate leadership training. ”
    – Bret Barros, Google

  • “Katrien has helped me understand what kind of leader I want to be, what is needed to get there, and how I can best deal with tough stakeholders

    I aluonderstand better how I want to react and how I want to be when team members are underperforming. She not only coached well but also provided practical advice on how to cope with certain situations if I explicitly asked for it. Thanks, it has been very helpful.”

    – Isaac Borghouts, Accenture

  • “I had started a new role at the beginning of the journey, so the coaching has supported my progress in the new position, helping me navigate a new set of challenges, mostly interpersonal.
    I have become more aware of the perception of my actions and have been able to aproach my current challenge in a more adaptive way, applying a different approach dependent on the person I am working with. “ - Rachael Newbold, JLL

  • “Katrien has been brilliant in helping me expand my ways of thinking by continuously challenging me and asking (really) difficult questions. I tend to look for the easy way out and Katrien certainly didn’t let me get away with this. My coach really challenged my way of thinking and helped me to identify things that I may be doing that are not very constructive to achieving the outcomes I want. Working with Katrien has been so impactful for me. I’m seeing improvement in all the areas I had set out to work on. - Diane White, Unilever

  • “Katrien has been instrumental in my development and growth. We have identified together which areas require further stengthening for me to step up. Using live examples she coaches me and challenges my way of managing difficult situations. From her own broad experience, she is able to understand the dynamics at senior leadership level and to give practical advice. As a result, I feel more confident when taking up my new job.” - Liesbet Van den Stock, Sibelco

 

I work with leaders to develop the team's ways of working as a unit that generates more value than its constituent parts. Team coaching engagements are designed with the team leader for the specifics of what we’re solving for. Typically challenges are around getting everyone on the team to give due priority to team goals; managing conflict; inviting everyone on the team to contribute and feel like they matter.

Team coaching can help project- or initiative-based teams as well as the more traditional organizational unit.

 

Team

Coaching

 

Not sure what you need?

 

Not sure yet whether coaching is right for you?

Questions about the process?

Curious what I am like to work with?

You can schedule a call with me and ask me anything. Or if you prefer, ask your question here and I will get back to you.

Such a conversation is free and does not commit you to anything.

My coaching engagements are virtual, using an online video link (multiple options are possible). All you need is an internet connection.

Team coaching often has an in-person component. We can talk through what will work best.

I work in English en ik werk in het Nederlands, mijn moedertaal.