Your expertise got you here. Your wisdom takes you further.
I work with senior professionals in EU institutions, agencies and regulatory environments: Experts becoming leaders, Professionals navigating what comes next & Senior Leaders who need a completely confidential thinking partner
What I Offer
My leadership transition coaching is for 3 main groups of clients. Click on the orange buttons below or get in touch using my contact form to find out more.
1. The Expert Becoming a Leader
You were promoted on the strength of your technical expertise. Now leadership asks something different of you: managing people, influencing peers, navigating organisational complexity and conflict, building visibility at a new level. These are not instincts you were born. Nor are they deficits to be corrected. They are skills that are entirely learnable.
Senior experts and first-to-mid level managers in EU institutions, agencies and regulatory bodies.
2. The Mid-Career Professional at a Crossroads
You’ve been aiming toward leadership, but something has stalled, or shifted, or started to feel less certain. Perhaps a role you applied for didn’t work out. Perhaps the institution no longer feels like a good fit. Perhaps you are considering whether to stay in institutional life at all. These are not small questions and they deserve careful thought.
Mid-career professionals in EU institutions, agencies and regulatory environments facing a significant decision about their next chapter.
3. The Senior Leader Seeking a Thinking Partner
At Director level and above, you are rarely short of opinions, but genuinely trusted counsel is another matter. Your peers are also your competitors. Your team looks to you for guidance and certainty. And quietly, beneath the demands of the role, persistent questions can be forming: about the sustainability of the current pace, about what the next chapter looks like, about stakeholder relationships and shifting governance.
There are very few people you can think out loud with, honestly and without consequence. That is what I offer.
Director level and above in EU institutions, regulatory bodies, and central banks.
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Does any of this sound familiar?:
You’ve built your career on expertise and now leadership is asking something different of you. You’re excellent at your work, but managing people, influencing peers, and navigating organisational dynamics weren’t in the job description you trained for.
You are kind-hearted and courageous and could do almost anything, yet your current role is no longer the one you want. Perhaps your plans didn’t work out or something has shifted and the next chapter isn’t clear. Deep down, you know you have to address or change something.
You’re at the top, and there’s no one inside the institution you can think out loud with.
If any of this resonates, I’d be glad to have a conversation.
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What working with me feels like
Our sessions are not structured around a fixed agenda. They begin with what is most present for you – a challenge or opportunity you are navigating, a decision you are facing, a pattern you want to shift, a conversation you need to have…
I work from your strengths first. Before we address what is more difficult, we understand what you already do exceptionally well and how to aim it more deliberately in your new context. My clients consistently describe this as work that is perfectly tailored to them – because it is. There is no standard programme. There is only your specific situation, your specific strengths and what matters most to you right now.
I will ask you questions you haven’t been asked before. I will notice things you haven’t noticed about yourself, and help to uncover what you are not yet seeing. I will sometimes say something you don’t want to hear and stay with you in that discomfort rather than move past it too quickly. And I will hold what you tell me in complete confidence, always.
What clients describe afterwards is not a set of techniques acquired. It is something more fundamental: a clearer sense of their own strengths, a restored trust in their own judgement and the confidence to move forward on their own terms.
The wisdom was already there. The work is finding it.
Photo by Lucas Boitquin
Photo by Lucas Boitquin
about me
I spent twenty years working inside the European institutions: At the ECB through the financial crisis and the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, and at the European Commission through the European Semester and the RRF. I’ve advised some of the highest levels in these institutions. I know the culture, the pressures and the particular complexity of building a career in these environments from the inside. I now coach professionals navigating the transitions I understand best.
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) · PhD Economics · Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths Coach · 600+ coaching hours · 50+ research publications · Studies in Psychology
Why choose Live in Wisdom?
Confidentiality
Throughout my career, I’ve been entrusted to work on secret files in complete confidentiality, and my coaching environment is no different. I hold space for you to safely and openly discuss your topic. I work with professionals where visibility and discretion both matter and where the ability to think openly and honestly, without consequence, is rare.
Institutional understanding
I’m familiar with how the EU institutions, agencies and regulatory environments work, what the culture asks of you and how they are complex. I spent twenty years navigating this environment myself and it’s the daily workplace for my clients, my network and many friends. That saves us time and helps us dive deeper into the opportunities and challenges you are facing.
A trusted relationship
Many of my clients stay for the long term – not because they have to, but because the relationship deepens over time. There are no fixed programme lengths or prescribed outcomes. We work on what matters most, at the pace that serves you. Your progress is supported by exercises, check-ins, progress reports and feedback, according to your wishes and needs.
I’m your thought-partner, ally, and accountability-board
The sources of some of my Credentials
