For leaders who have already learned how to do more. The work now is becoming more.
Confidential 1:1 and team coaching in English, French, and Dutch.
You already know what to do.
The hard part is finding the clarity to do it — when the stakes are personal, the politics are real, and nobody around the table can afford to be fully honest.
We hold that space.
Twenty years inside multinational matrix organisations — HR, Talent, DEI — taught me that the rational mind has a ceiling. Beyond it, leaders need a different kind of work.
I am ICF PCC and Co-Active CPCC. I integrate presence (Janni), vertical development (Garvey Berger), psychological safety (Edmondson), and the Pesch thesis: more awareness, more choices, real transformation.
I coach in English, French, and Dutch. Geneva, Lausanne, Suisse Romande, and remote across Europe and the Middle East.
Four traditions, integrated into a single practice. Empirical rigour. Developmental depth. Somatic grounding. Coherent across the individual, the team, and the system.
Somatic awareness is not soft. It is the leading indicator the rational mind is still catching up to. The work begins by widening what you can sense before you decide.
After Doug Silsbee & Janni LloydHigh performers do not stall for lack of competence. They stall when the level of complexity outgrows the structure of mind they are using to meet it. Coaching grows the structure.
After Jennifer Garvey BergerEdmondson's research on the highest-performing teams is unambiguous: they are not the smartest, the most aligned, or the most disciplined. They are the safest. We build that safety into the system, not the rhetoric.
After Amy EdmondsonThe Pesch thesis: lasting change is not behavioural compliance. It is the steady expansion of what a leader can perceive, feel, and choose — under load, in real time, with stakes.
After Nicholas Pesch & the Conscious Leadership lineageExecutives do not buy time. They buy outcomes. De Mensen offers three coaching containers — each anchored to a moment in the leader's arc.
For leaders stepping into a promotion, a first C-suite seat, or a step-change in mandate. The first 90 days set the next three years.
For leaders under sustained complexity — M&A, restructuring, geopolitical exposure, board scrutiny. Bandwidth, not burnout.
For executive committees and leadership teams that need to do real work in real conditions. Co-facilitated with a senior partner coach where the team is large enough.
Names and details changed. The transformations are real. Six conversations that show what coaching at this level actually does.
Two rival factions on the executive team. Every decision felt like choosing a side. Within 90 days she had rebuilt trust across both — without firing anyone.
Read the storyFourteen-hour days. The issue wasn't time management. It was identity. He restructured his calendar in three sessions — his daughter noticed first.
Read the storyTwo hundred people, growth stalled, every decision still hers. Letting go meant admitting the company had become something bigger than her.
Read the storyShort reflections from the practice — published as they land. The deeper stories live above; the long-form essays will live in Insights.
A team's outer performance has a ceiling — and that ceiling is set by its collective inner state. An experiential workshop for leadership teams working on real business challenges.
Read on LinkedIn →Releasing limiting beliefs I hadn't known were shaping my path. Systems work invites collective wisdom forward by helping people meet their edges together.
Read on LinkedIn →After nearly 3 years at Nestlé, dedicating myself fully to coaching — to make space for creativity, balance, and meaning.
Read on LinkedIn →How much of yourself are you actually bringing to the role? A short self-assessment rooted in the bandwidth concept — somatic, emotional, cognitive, presence under load. Twelve minutes. Yours to keep.
"Most leaders navigate the loneliest weeks of their career alone. Some choose not to."— De Mensen
The first thirty minutes is a Diagnostic Call — not a sales call, not a discovery call, not a chemistry check. A coaching conversation. You leave with something useful, whether or not we work together.
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