WHO I AM
Deeply experienced. Rigorous in thought. Generous in relationship.
I am an independent leadership advisor and executive coach to CEOs, C-suite leaders and senior teams in global corporations. My work sits at the intersection of strategy, leadership, personality and context. I am most useful when the stakes are high: an important succession decision, readiness for a larger role, a CEO or executive transition, or a senior team that needs to elevate its collective performance.
After a long career in consulting, executive leadership and entrepreneurship, I created BeMore Consulting to work in a more personal and independent way, with greater depth and continuity across each engagement. That remains the design today. BeMore is deliberately a specialist practice. Clients engage me directly. When an assignment benefits from additional expertise, I bring together a small group of trusted partners while remaining closely involved and personally accountable for the work. I also value being easy to work with - responsive and flexible in how I support clients, while holding a high bar for the quality and integrity of the work.
A distinctive part of my approach is the depth of synthesis I bring to understanding a leader. I draw together assessment data, stakeholder perspectives, the demands of the role, business and organizational realities, and what I observe in the person. I am interested not only in what a leader does, but in what shapes it: the motives, assumptions, habits, values and patterns that influence how they lead - particularly under pressure.
My work is thoughtful and rigorous, but not formulaic. I do not start with a model and fit the person into it. I try to understand the individual in their particular system: what has made them successful, where those same strengths may create limitations, how other people experience them, and what the next chapter of their leadership now asks of them.
Purposeful leadership is one of the areas in which my practice runs particularly deep. I have worked with purpose as a serious leadership and developmental discipline for nearly 20 years. For me, purpose is not corporate messaging or a personal slogan. It is a way of connecting identity, values, contribution and performance - giving senior leaders a steadier basis for choice when navigating complexity.
My style is candid, precise and deeply developmental. I create enough safety for honest exploration while being willing to challenge assumptions, illuminate blind spots and go beneath the first explanation. The objective is not to manufacture a different personality or a more polished executive persona. It is to help leaders become more self-aware, more intentional and more fully themselves - and, as a consequence, more effective in the difference they make to the enterprise and to the people they lead.
EARLIER CAREER & CREDENTIALS
Before founding BeMore Consulting, I spent fifteen years with Korn Ferry, most recently leading the Chief Executive Institute® across EMEA and APAC. Earlier roles included leading Korn Ferry's Global Consumer Consulting Practice and its Consulting business in EMEA.
Prior to Korn Ferry, I held senior consulting leadership roles with Capgemini and Ernst & Young. Earlier in my career I founded and sold a technology market-research business, later becoming President of Dataquest Computer Europe.
I hold an MBA from INSEAD and a bachelor's degree from the European Business School. I am an ICF-certified, CTI-trained executive coach, hold an Institute of Directors Diploma in Company Direction, and am qualified in a broad range of executive assessment methodologies.
I work in English and French and speak conversational German.
