What kinds of results do my coaching clients achieve?

I have different types of clients:

• expatriates, diplomats and their trailing spouse
• international or mobile entrepreneurs (who are often expats wanting to become self-employed in their new country, or expat spouses).
  

I have helped my expatriate or diplomat clients achieve consistently the following results over the years:

• prepare for and manage the physical and psychological aspects of the relocation, the transition into a new culture (culture shock) and the integration process - together with their family
  
• become immediately efficient at work in the crucial but stressful first 100 days
  
• master the challenges of intercultural communication and leadership
  
• lead multicultural and remote (virtual) teams successfully
• learn the new language quickly and efficiently by using their own learning styles and NLP techniques
  
• master the hurdles of intercultural communication at work (colleagues and team) and in private
  
• create and develop new professional and social networks, make friends quickly with local people & maintain long-distance relationships (private and professional ones)
  
• maintain a solid personal foundation despite the stress of coping with new environments, a new lifestyle, new relationships and a foreign culture
• develop a good work/life balance an, in particular, find the time to discover the new country and culture
• master the different phases of culture shock and integration
  
• plan the next steps of their international career
• find a new job abroad or at home
  
• manage the often ignored difficulties of impatriation.

My entrepreneurial clients are mostly self-employed service professionals who are creating, or have already created, their own business based on their specific expertise, in the area of information management and knowledge transfer. They are trainers, consultants, coaches, writers, speakers, etc. Although working usually from their home-office, they develop their business internationally, based on the Internet, e-marketing and the NTIC (New Technologies of Information and Communication).

I help them

• make the shift from being self-employed and trading their time for money, to being successful business owners
• develop their business around their own values, their vision and their mission
• identify their unique expertise and specialities
• define 1 or 2 specific niches in which they become the absolute experts and which bring high revenues
• create and develop programs and info-products, for ex. ebooks, teleclasses or teleconferences, audio and video recordings, seminars and events, etc.
  
• identify and apply systematically the marketing methods that are the most appropriate to sell their products and services, and fit their personality
  
• leverage everything they do in order to develop multiple streams of income
  
• multiply their revenues through residual (recurring) income and even through passive income
• develop their business as a "portable business" that can be run from anywhere in the world
• automate, delegate or delete, in order to bring their business to the next level - so that it can ultimately be run and provide revenues even without them
• use strategic partnerships to develop their business
  
• develop an international strategy in order to leverage what they do in different languages.
  

I strongly believe that a service business can be successful only if it is based on excellence in the following areas:

• skills and expertise of the business owner
• management (even a home-business requires strong management skills)
• technique (Internet, organization of virtual trainings and events, use of software, etc.)
• marketing (including all the new methods of marketing that are constantly being created, like social networks).
  

Too many service professionals make the mistake to believe that their personal skills and expertise are sufficient to become successful in areas where they don't event need to make investments, as they already own a computer, a telephone, a printer and a broadband Internet access. My coaching aims at developing fully the potential of the 3 other crucial elements: management, technique and marketing.

Last but not least, having an excellent work/life balance and sound personal foundations is also crucial for success as an entrepreneur. I also help my entrepreneur clients achieve this through my coaching.

Generally speaking, my clients also report a number of untangible and not measurable benefits as the result of the coaching: balance and fitness, concentration and focus on their goals, self-esteem, physical and mental dynamics, replacement of limiting beliefs by supporting ones, improvement of personal and business relationships and communication, just to name a few.