Executive coaching

Learning ability and self-reflection are important factors for future proof leaders. To increase self-awareness and personal and professional leadership, De Vroedt & Thierry has a carefully built network of experienced executive coaches. These coaches can keep leaders sharp, act as a sounding board about current or future situations, and pay specific attention to the person, the role that is fulfilled, as well as the context and the organisation in which the executive operates.

In our view, executive coaching is an indispensable part of building a competitive leadership team. Leaders today are expected to act as role models, inspire, make decisions and express their views on difficult issues and possible solutions. They often experience significant pressure to perform. An executive coach can serve as a sounding board, a safe haven, with as ultimate goal, as leadership consultant, executive coach and author Mary Beth O’Neill describes it, ‘helping leaders work through their dilemmas so they can transform their learning directly into results for the organisation.’

According to a study by PwC, companies that have used professional coaching for business reasons have seen an average return of seven times that of their original investment. And, as stated by Forbes, executive coaching can have the following advantages:

Which themes are discussed in executive coaching? Yvonne Burger (independent consultant, executive coach and professor ‘Organisational Culture, Communication and Leadership’ at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam) conducted research into issues that present themselves at the top. In her book ‘Mirror at the top’ she highlights the following themes: