I am now offering leadership coaching — and looking for clients.
Grounded in an unusually broad international career and formal coaching training, I offer a confidential space for reflection, joint exploration and insight. I support through listening, questioning and challenge.
My Approach
Who I work with:
Advance or navigate a career in international organisations and complex multilateral environments.
Tackle leadership challenges at pivotal professional moments.
Lead more effectively across cultures, institutions and competing pressures.
Manage situations where principles and pragmatism clash.
Move through transitions with greater clarity and purpose.
I generally work with people living the complexities of an international life — specifically those who want to:
What I bring:
A long and unusually varied UN career — from a refugee camp on the Chad–Sudan border to senior advisor to the Secretary-General in New York — gave me direct experience of leadership under pressure, across cultures, at every level of the system.
I have lived through significant successes and major failures. The latter, I have found, are the more instructive. I have also failed notably as a saxophone player, farmer, stand-up comedian and fiction writer. This turns out to be excellent preparation for coaching: it keeps my ego in check and my empathy intact.
My professional training includes the Co-Active Training Institute's Fundamentals of Coaching and IESE Business School's Leadership Coaching Programme. IESE is consistently ranked among the world's top business schools in executive education by the Financial Times.