The Team
Experienced Coaches
Geographical Locations
Years of Experience
Alumni Coached
COACHES EUROPE
Emmanuel Bompy, MBA'85J
France
Certified coach by Transformance , MBTI and TMS certified, Trained in Process Communication, Human Element (Schutz) and Transactional analysis.Logotherapist. Associate member of SFCoach (Société Française de Coaching)
My professional career is like a Rubik’s cube :
3 types of education (Aeronautics engineer, Insead MBA, Executive coach certification), 3 types of positions (Sales & Marketing Executive, BU Director, Strategy & Change consultant and coach), within 3 types of environment and management culture (French, US and Japanese companies).
I can help you to take a step back before choosing or filling a new position or function, meeting a new challenge or making a difficult change decision, while maintaining the right balance and consistency across all levels of meaning.
I bring my clients a special attention to what needs to be changed or kept to be successful within their new environment or context.
One of my favourite quotes : “Happy those Execs who know how to laugh at themselves, because they will never stop having fun”
Nicolas Bontron, MBA'97J
France
French, MS in telecommunications, INSEAD MBA ’97, certified coach.
For the last 8 years, Nicolas has been working with executives to help them manage their career and more specifically their career crisis: when their job is being terminated or when they want to get out of a turbulence situation (burn out, end of expatriation, loss of motivation, …) He helps them to consider the various aspects (professional, personal and financial) of the situation: communication, reputation, health, risks, finance, legal and tax. A successful project leads to an executive who has overcome his/her career crisis and regained energy to bounce back in his/her professional life. In addition, Nicolas has been involved with INSEAD as a career coach for MBAs and EMBAs since 2006 and he is member of the INSEAD Alumni Association Career Services Group.
I started my career as a Telecom Engineer, working for Orange in France, Germany and in the US. After my MBA at INSEAD, I worked for 8 years in international high tech marketing.
Philippe Slioussarenko, MBA'77
France
Founder and leader of “Management of Human Goals “(M.H.G. Europe), a French consulting firm assisting companies in the development of executives and their teams, and in the efficiency of organisations.
For more than 30 years I have acted as a personal coach to international clients (Corporate and individuals) to increase their personal effectiveness and performance levels at key points of their professional development: joining new organizations, climbing the various
professional ladders, creating and strengthening virtual and international teams, organizing transitions (M&A), restructuring, strategic repositioning, succession planning.
My practice of coaching is based on the following values and fundamentals:
- The belief in the human ability to change, while acknowledging that change can be difficult and therefore resisted.
- Each individual is creative, resourceful and whole. Everyone has the answers or can find the answers. The coach job is to ask questions, not to find the answers. Clients are more resourceful, more effective and generally more satisfied when they find their own answers
- The partner relationship: The client and the coach work together to design a partnership that meets the client needs. this relationship is like having a personal navigator of your life: someone who will help you find your way and stay on course
- The agenda comes from the client not from the coach. the relationship is entirely focused on getting the results clients want
Some specific benefits of my interventions include:
- Clarifying what you want: your purpose and vision; articulate your desires and aspirations; setting effective goals.
- Having someone to keep you focused, challenge you, keep you accountable and confront you when you are falling behind your commitments.
- Having a sounding board for your ideas, plans and strategies.
Nathalie Metcalf, MBA'93D
United Kingdom
Diploma in Clinical Organisational, Psychology (CCC 2010) and MBA (1993), MBTI (Steps 1 & 2), Career Leader, DISC, Neo and GELI (360). Qualified Systemic Team Coach.
Nathalie is a career and executive coach with a passion for helping people reach their full potential, based on a deep understanding of their strengths, skills, experience, challenges and aspirations. She has been a coach for INSEAD MBAs, EMBAs and alumni for the last 12 years. Based in London, she frequently meets her coachees from her garden studio, helping individuals clarify their career goals and navigate crucial transitions in their journey. She has also conducted hundreds of CV reviews for MBAs and EMBAs over the last 8 years.
More recently, she has also been dedicated to coaching senior professional women wanting to return to work after an extended career break, playing a crucial role in the introduction and growth of ‘returnships’ at Top 500 listed companies in the UK.
Her background in Management Consultancy at both Arthur D. Little (London and Singapore) and Accenture (Australia and the UK) has given her an appreciation of career challenges that senior executives face across industries and at various stages of their careers. Since setting up her own professional development business in 2001, Nathalie has specialized in coaching, senior leadership development and communication skills.
Vanessa Sadler, MBA'89J
United Kingdom
Coaches Training Institute (CTI) – Core curriculum; Certified Administrator – MBTI® Step I, II & Teams, 360-Degree Assessment Benchmarks® Skillscope®; Workplace Big Five, FiroB, Career Leader, Influence Style Indicator; Certificate in Group Coaching; Associate Coach at Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) & Leadership Choices GmbH.
Vanessa has 16 years’ experience as an Executive Coach, coaching at Senior levels specialising in Strategic Career Management and Leadership Development. She has lived in Asia for 8 years, mainland Europe for 8 years and is currently based in the UK.
She has coached INSEAD GEMBAs, alumni, and MBAs from over 80 nationalities. Her coaching has covered all areas of career development including mid-career transition, job search strategy, networking, re-branding within a multi-national to get the right post-MBA role, entrepreneurship and family businesses. She has also worked with Senior alumni to secure CEO roles and non-executive director positions. Vanessa also has extensive experience helping clients with their personal branding using tailored CVs and linked-in to secure opportunities and has prepared them for interviews.
Her approach is to facilitate the development of her clients to take charge of their own careers, build awareness of strengths/values and challenge self-limiting behaviours. Vanessa has navigated several career changes herself, previously working as a Strategy Consultant for The LEK Partnership and Schiphol Airport, and as a Business Development Manager for AT&T. Prior to doing her MBA at INSEAD she worked as a Chemical Engineer for Shell.
Stella Mantechou
Europe
MBA, American College of Greece | MSc International Management, University of Surrey| BA in Business Administration & Management, University of Macedonia Greece
INSEAD Executive Coaching Certification
Stanford Design Your Life Certified Coach
Occupational Psychological Testing, British Psychological Society
Coaching & Mentoring Certificate, UK Institute of Leadership & Management
Stella is an international career and executive coach, with over 18 years of global experience gained in the UK, Middle East, Asia, EU and US markets, where she lived and supported the development goals of various executives. She has coached countless diverse candidates on their professional development goals from undergraduate to executive level and has helped many with international career transitions.
After setting up and growing successfully for the past 5 years the Executive Career Development office at INSEAD, across France, Abu Dhabi and Singapore, she founded “Inspiration Ride”, an education and career consulting partner for individuals and corporations. In the past she also supported the career journey of INSEAD’s MBA students in the Middle East and in Singapore, from where she gained local market knowledge. She has continually brought her knowledge from global markets and employer recruitment practices into developing future leaders who achieve successful personal transitions. In her practice, she combines systems psychodynamics coaching, practical approaches, and a combination of coaching models to offer the tools needed for navigating your professional journey.
Stella advises also ed-tech founders, due to her renowned knowledge of the global higher education sector and her passion for disrupting education. She was the initiator and curator of a regional “think tank” in 2012, the Middle East Career Development Conference, that run for 4 consecutive years and she was among the 50 top career thought leaders that were invited at the Career Summit organized by Google in 2013. She also currently serves as the Director of Communications at the executive board of the MBA Career Services for Working Professionals Alliance, in the USA.
Patrick Fearon
United Kingdom
Qualified Coach through the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme. Director, Corporate Coaching and Consultancy Limited; Director and co-founder SineMuris Limited.
Patrick has 15 years experience as an Executive Coach, focused on Leadership Development and Career Change. His own career has been one of change and international development. He started his career as a banker at JP Morgan in New York, London and Brussels, before being recruited to be Managing Director of a commodities trader, where he put together and managed brokerage teams. As an Executive Search Consultant at both Russell Reynolds in London and at TASA International in London and Hong Kong, where he was Managing Director for Asia, he worked with organisations and executives at key moments of transition. In his current coaching work he is focused on working with executives to be more effective as they develop their careers.
Patrick currently works with MBA’s, EMBA’s and alumni of a number of major Business Schools in the UK and France. Much of that work involves helping his coaching clients to identify and effect the changes they wish to make in their career, either through promotion within their own organization, or through a change of company and/or role, and to coach them through the process of effecting that change. He has also provided workshops on CV preparation and will be giving a webinar on Career Change to INSEAD alumni in 2019.
In addition, Patrick coaches executives from a broad range of corporations, which range in size from major multinationals to SME’s and start-ups. The seniority levels of his coaching clients vary from C-suite to new management. The topics to be coached are for the clients to decide, and cover a broad range of issues from the creation and implementation of strategy, to improving day-to-day skills, such as communication and delegation.
As a coach, Patrick considers his role to be to provide a calm space, that will enable those who work with him to think through what they want to do next, or how they might improve the way they are currently doing business. His coaching style is to question, challenge and listen very carefully, not only to what is being said, but even more importantly, what is not being said.
Holger Karsten
Germany
Holger is Executive Coach and besides his coaching activities, he is responsible for the “Career Services” of the German alumni association of INSEAD (including a program for future supervisory board members) and is a senior lecturer at TUM in Munich.
Holger Karsten works as executive coach with great enthusiasm and brings a wealth of more than 35 years of experience and a clear own stand into his work. Holger is business- and results oriented and can switch easily with high role flexibility between the roles of coach, consultant and sparring partner.
Holger started his business career with AUDI AG, gaining deep insights into the automotive industry as assistant to the board member in charge of production (level “Abteilungsleiter” and with 30 years youngest “leitender Angestellter” of the VW- group).
Having become a management consultant, he built up the European Automotive practice as Vice President of Arthur D. Little, ran their largest German office as Managing Director and was head of the European HR- Committee.
As one of the Managing Directors in the Frankfurt Office of Merrill Lynch, he gained extensive experience in the Financial Services-segment, especially Investment Banking, namely M&A and Corporate Finance; this work was by nature global and included intensive teamwork across cultural and continental borders.
Afterwards he returned to top-management consulting and worked for AT Kearney and as partner for Accenture, before he became Managing Partner / shareholder of Leadership Choices, a management consulting firm focussing on executive development.
COACHES MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Gaj Ravichandra
Middle East/Australia
Gaj Ravichandra, Reg Psych, MComm, MAICD
For almost 20 years as a Registered Psychologist, Gaj has worked with individuals to formulate and deliver on their career paths. He has supported organisations across multiple industries and cultures to identify, select, develop and retain top talent. As a Peak Performance coach, Gaj also assists individuals, corporations, sporting teams and educational institutions to maximise their potential and performance.
He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and currently is Managing Partner of Kompass, an International Career and Performance Consultancy that works with leading business schools and organisations. He has worked across 4 continents with the last 9 years in the Middle East working within the following industries: Finance, Healthcare, Aviation, Technology, Industrial, Education, Government, Oil & Gas, Construction & Telecoms.
Leila Rezaiguia
Middle East/Africa
Leila Rezaiguia MA Chartered MCIPD, PCC, ORSC, NLP
Executive & Relationship Systems Coach
Co- Founder & Managing Partner
A Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Executive, Career and Systemic Team Coach, and an NLP Business Master Practitioner based in Dubai (UAE). For more than 20 years, Leila has been partnering and supporting individuals and leadership teams in understanding business needs and contexts, developing their leadership skills, creating high performance, coaching and mentoring cultures, designing learning and development, talent management strategies, systems and processes that lead to delivering successful holistic and tailored frameworks, programmes and projects. She is passionate about Individual and Systemic Team coaching and coaches, mentors and facilitates leadership development workshops to professionals at every organisational level, from C-suite to Entry level graduates in English, Arabic and French.
Leila has worked in UK, Europe, MENA, Turkey and Asia both in public and private sectors; an international experience gained in Global Financial Services, Government, Oil & Gas, Energy, HR Consultancy, Executive Education, FMCG, Manufacturing, Power Plant, Airline, Transportation, Retail, Hospitality and Real Estate industries.
For the past five years, Leila’s role has been building Kompass Consultancy; a successful innovative global talent management consultancy specialising in enabling individuals, organisations and educational institutions to achieve performance excellence and career success. Leila is also the Business Partner/ Head of the Academy of Executive Coaching UAE in the UAE, GCC and Levant regions. Her areas of interest and expertise are: Coaching, Women in Leadership, Mentoring, Talent Management and Organisational Development.
Jenny Tyobeka, AMP'03Oct
Africa
Jenny is the Founder of JT Executive Coaching & Advisory Services and a credentialed and professionally accredited Executive Coach (Association for Coaching, UK). Her clients come from an extensive range of entrepreneurial ventures & major industries, inclusive of pharmaceutical, technology, manufacturing, global management consulting and financial services. They are based in Europe, Africa the Middle East and South East Asia.
Her coaching, over 12 years, has evolved to being fast-paced and performance-driven, with a developmental angle, as she has adapted to the needs of her clients. Her focus is on helping them activate their emotional energy for motivation and action, to overcome barriers, and close the gap between knowing and doing to accomplish goal attainment. She brings a highly personalised approach to all her coaching relationships, shaped around each client’s specific needs.
In her own career, she has had high-performing P&L (PBT > $60 million) and balance sheet (up to $1Billion) accountability, as Senior Manager, Managing Executive, CEO and Non-Executive Director in blue chip publicly listed, private and state-owned financial services companies, spanning more than 15 years. In addition, she has served on 6 major company’s Boards.
Jenny has qualifications in Psychology, Sociology, Social Research and Statistics, Financial Markets and Instruments, Financial Management, Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption, Innovation in the Age of Disruption, has completed INSEAD’s Advance Management Programme, holds a professional qualification in Social Work counselling and social group work, and is also a trained Resilience Practitioner.
COACHES USA
Peter Jacobs, MBA'92J
San Francisco
MA in Career Development from JFK University; Coaching Training through the Newfield Network; National Certified Counselor (NCC); Master Career Counselor (MCC), INSEAD MBA, BSE Wharton.
Since 2001, Peter has been coaching successful professionals to build fulfilling and rewarding careers that fit their values, skills, interests and needs. Peter’s clients have achieved sustainable career progress, developed themselves personally and professionally, created balance between work and non-work priorities, as well as landed interviews and job offers.
Clients have said that Peter has knack for (1) asking questions that offer new perspectives, (2) finding the essence in each story or narrative, and (3) uncovering resources and ideas to pursue new possibilities both in current job roles and beyond. Peter uses a market-oriented approach to personal branding and job search, and coaches his clients to overcome both internal and external obstacles to success. Before becoming a career coach, Peter worked for 14 years as both an individual contributor and people manager in a variety of Finance, Procurement and Business Process roles in the U.S. and Western Europe.
In addition to his private practice and work with employees as an independent contractor at Genentech’s CareerLab, Peter is an adjunct career advisor to MBA students and alumni at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has facilitated Job Search Action Groups and webinars for the Wharton Executive MBA program in San Francisco.
Peter holds an MA in Career Development from JFK University, an MBA from INSEAD and a BSE from Wharton. He completed Coaching Training through the Newfield Network.
Miguel Noguerol, EMC'16
Miami (covers as wel South America)
Professional Coach certified by University of Miami (ICF ACTP Program), Miguel holds the EMCC, INSEAD Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change, with Distinction. A practitioner of multiple 360Degree Leadership Style and Personality Assessment instruments– including PA, GELM, and DISC. Member of the Institute of Coaching (IOC) at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School affiliate; and International Coaching Federation (ICF). As Executive Coach and Change Leadership Consultant, Miguel is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Brazilian born, and based in the USA since 1998. Miguel had over 30 years of global leadership experience in the Technology Industry and held several Senior Sales and General Management positions, leading multicultural and multifunction organizations in Brazil, Latin America, and globally working for Sun Microsystems, Motorola Solutions, and Zebra Technologies.
In 2014, he managed a career transition into Executive Coaching, Change Leadership and Organization Development Consultancy. He works with talented individuals and organizational leaders, from different industries around the world to establish their vision, core leadership values, to discover and reflect on his-her professional goals, leadership skills, style, and behaviors. He partners with the client to develop plans to enhance specific leadership competencies, and drive execution of defined enhancement goals in their lives, careers, and organizations. In his executive coaching practice, he assists executives in the areas of Career Development and Transition, Leadership Development and Training, Executive Communication, 360-Degree feedback of Leadership Style and Competencies, Role Transition, Organization Development and Leading Change. Miguel is passionate about Multicultural Leadership and the development of Emotion-based Leadership skills as essential elements to support individual’s career development and drive of organizational excellence in a global enterprise environment.
COACHES CANADA
James Fleck, MBA'87J
Canada
CEO Advisory Coaching and Facilitation
James is an experienced public company CEO who works as both a senior leadership coach and as an executive team facilitator. He brings to his practice meaningful experience as an operating executive as well as the perspective of having worked with a wide variety of C-level clients. James was a founder of the CEO Advisory Services Practice at Knightsbridge Human Capital, but he now works exclusively in private practice.
Prior to practicing as a coach, advisor and facilitator, James was the President and CEO of Camco, the largest manufacturer and distributor of home appliances in Canada. He also worked in senior operating roles at GE in the US, Europe and Asia in industries ranging from from energy to advanced materials to consumer products. He has served on a number of public, private and not for profit boards, and has guided start-up firms as a venture capitalist. In these roles James has guided firms through significant change, including acquisitions, restructurings and the sale and integration of entire companies.
James has coached CEOs, entrepreneurs and executive teams at major banks, retailers, manufacturers, technology companies, resource companies and professional services firms. His clients include Top Forty Under Forty recipients, Rhodes’ Scholars and CEOs of some of Canada fastest growing and best-managed companies. James also assists executive teams and boards in strategy facilitation and team alignment, helping teams to address challenges related to organic growth, acquisitions and their integration as well as restructuring and cost reduction.
James has offices in Toronto and Calgary and he takes on assignments throughout Canada, the US and, occasionally, further afield.
COACHES ASIA
Alex Hope
Singapore
Executive Masters in Organisational Psychology, INSEAD. Masters in Counselling & Masters in Management; Certificate in Wholebeing Positive Psychology. Mindfulness Practitioner. Accredited in personality profiling instruments including Hogan, MBTI, LSI, Workplace Big Five, Situational Leadership II® and a range of 360 assessments.
Based in Singapore, Alex brings over 26 years of Asian corporate and entrepreneurial experience to her clients. As a Coach she combines her diverse work experience, cross cultural attunement, business acumen and her deep passion for helping leaders understand what motivates and inspires them and ultimately achieve breakthroughs in personal and professional performance. As a Career Coach, Alex partners with her clients to develop their short and longer term career aspirations in alignment with the client’s strengths, values and purpose & developing essential career skills such as personal branding, resume building, networking & interviewing skills so the client can be confident in all stages of their job search. She has been a Career Coach at INSEAD since 2009.
She gets a lot of joy from her family, David her husband of 26 years and their 2 children aged 19 and 22 years, and being with nature. She has strong connection to John Muir’s words “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks” and she ensures whether it is walking, running, riding in Singapore’s parks or kayaking in the ocean, that it is a priority in her day.
Andrew Jones
Singapore
Andrew is an Executive Coach, Facilitator & Career Counselor, with over 26 years of global leadership experience in Asia, and he has been an external career coach at INSEAD since 2012. He studied Coaching at Ashridge Business School, UK and holds the INSEAD Masters in Coaching & Consulting for Change.
Andrew works with a wide range of leaders and professionals to C-level, where career progress and leadership development are always intertwined. His style, tools and processes are tailored to the client’s objectives. When career counselling, he partners with clients along the whole development cycle from self-awareness through career strategy, personal branding, networking skills, interviewing, and contract negotiation to plotting a course for the first 90 days and beyond. Andrew builds a close and trusting relationship with his client. He keeps the client’s perspectives central and strives for new insights by exploring what is going on, both in the material the client offers and in the conversation as it unfolds. He facilitates the client to develop their behaviors or solve their own problems in the context of all the systems they belong to. He connects his coaching ability with his Leadership & HR experience to offer confidential counsel to leaders, who need a sparring partner, with whom they can test out new ideas, or be challenged.
Andrew navigated his own career transition out of Deutsche Bank AG to launch his Coaching business in 2012. At Deutsche for 13.5 years, he held various global HR, Operations & IT leadership roles as Managing Director. Before that, he started his career in the UK and moved to Kuwait for HR consulting and corporate roles in the 90’s
Susanne Peltz
Singapore
Master of Science in Management – The University of Goettingen, Germany
Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology – University of East London, UK
Certified Coach – The NeuroLeadership Institute, Australia, CTI (Coaches Training Institute) Core Curriculum. Certified Administrator – Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Step I & II (MBTI), Firo-B, 360-Degree Assessment Benchmarks® & Skillscope®. Accredited Career Management Consultant, Lee Hecht Harrison.
Professional Experience
Susanne is committed to helping global executives develop and manage their international careers. She has worked both as a coach and trainer, with professionals from over 80 nationalities advising them on career management and transition issues.
Susanne has close to 20 years of international work experience across Europe and Asia. She began her career at a global media conglomerate, Bertelsmann, holding various marketing positions in Germany and China. In 2004 she joined INSEAD initially managing corporate partnerships with companies in the APAC region. In this capacity, she gained insightful knowledge into talent sourcing and management development working closely with multi-national organizations.
Building on her experience, Susanne focused her efforts on coaching global executives since 2007. Her coaching work covers a wide range of career-related aspects including self-assessment analysis, career development strategy, CV & cover letter, interview skills and salary negotiation.
Lola Chetti, EMC'14J
Hong Kong - Asia
- Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change ’14 (Distinction)
- Professional -LLB (Hons)
- Change Consultant and Leadership Coach
In her practice Lola focuses on getting her clients to explore what really matters to them and supports them in leveraging this self awareness to establish their vision moving forward—all the whilst working on the areas that may be holding them back. Working with senior executives from diverse cultures and countries has brought Lola a wealth of experience and practical specialization in the sociocultural aspects of leadership development.Her experience spans from coaching ‘C’ suite clients on how to further enhance their development—and that of others working for them—to helping teams build cohesiveness so as to deliver better outcomes. Lola also consults on organizational culture and designs customized leadership training workshops for organizations.
MBTI (1&2)- Centre for Creative Leadership 360 assessments: Benchmarks, 360 by design, Executive Dimensions, Prospector -INSEAD: Global Executive Leadership Inventory, Personal Audit – LSI suite of Instruments (Human Synergistics): LSI, Co- Achieving, Group Styles Inventory, Management Effectiveness Profile, LSI conflict – Workplace Big 5
Prosci –Change Management Certification, Diploma in Coaching Supervision exp. in September ‘18
Lola ‘s first career was as a senior Magistrate in the judiciary; it is her passion for people and their personal and professional development that saw her transition to becoming a part-time voluntary worker in a refugee centre, later taking-up studies in leadership and coaching. For the past 10 years, Lola has been delivering executive coaching and leadership development training to Senior executives in Multinationals in Hong kong, Malaysia, Singapore , Indonesia, France.