Whether 1:1 or with a group or team, coaching is a client-centered co-creative process that supercharges your learning, vitality and accomplishment.
Perhaps the approaches you’ve used in the past aren’t producing the results you want. You’re ready to work with an experienced guide who has helped others succeed in similar situations.
That’s where I come in. My clients value me as a thinking partner who helps them successfully navigate challenging situations and significantly improve their accomplishments and well-being.
We combine our forces in a process that will give you clarity, tools, and inspiration to reach your professional and personal potential.
I draw on my 2000+ hours of experience coaching hundreds of clients, my coach training and certification, my PhD in organizational behavior, and my long professional experience to co-create a powerful learning experience that helps you achieve your present goals — and also plants seeds of capability that will continue to grow long after we’re done working together.
My Solutions For Your Success
You bring the challenge, readiness to change, and desire to create something important and meaningful. I bring the experience, skills, focus, and commitment to help you do it. Together we’ll put you in the driver’s seat!
Coaching For Teams
What You'll Gain Through Coaching
Crystallize your vision
Figure out where you want to get to and what you want to create. Specify high-value goals and intentions for coaching.
Map the terrain
Understand where you are now and where you want to get to. Deepen self-awareness. Clarify your vision and goals.
Power up
Lock in on your values, strengths and resources. Refuel. Build out your toolkit for greater problem-solving capacity.
Move forward
Develop and implement strategies that support your goals and vision.
Sustain wins
Build habits and approaches that power lifelong learning, success, and thriving.
Overcome barriers
Let go of mindsets and habits that hold you back. Shift from limiting perspectives to self-empowering ones.
Want to take a deeper look at what it's like to work with Monique? Read sample coaching stories.
What My Clients Say About Me
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“The coaching sessions provided me with a solid and trusted avenue for an open discussion on strengths, values, and goals, and on setting a work plan to increase my performance and competencies as a leader. This was a positive step at this juncture in my career development. Coaching sessions with Monique were extremely beneficial to me personally and to my career development. She is inspirational and full of energy. Monique assisted me in identifying areas in need of development and helped me find ways to address them in a comprehensive and efficient manner. I recall and use what I learned during coaching in work situations every day. I feel grateful for this coaching opportunity.”
Acting Section Chief, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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“I first discovered Monique through an article she had written in the Harvard Business Review. My initial goals for coaching were to strengthen my managerial skills, specifically in crisis management. Over the year and a half that she was my coach, we worked on many topics, especially stress management. Monique is a very attentive person and extremely precise in her work. With compassion and rigor, she helped me to advance toward accomplishing a specific goal in each coaching session. I can say today that Monique is a strong support in my professional life and I will not fail to call on her again in all situations of high strategic value. I leave with many tools in my pocket and with the feeling of having progressed. Thank you, Monique!”
Romain Mirian, Founder
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“As an executive team member, leadership development consultant and executive coach, I know how important it is for leaders to continuously develop and challenge themselves to find new, authentic ways to serve others. Monique helped me to do this throughout our two-year coaching engagement. As my executive coach, she enabled me to find clarity in uncertain times, discover meaning in the challenges I faced, and reminded me to stay true to myself in how I serve others. I wholeheartedly recommend Monique to anyone who is seeking to transform themselves through executive coaching!”
John McNulty, CEO
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“Monique helped me to achieve my goals, including some I didn't even realize I had at the beginning of our working relationship. On top of possessing an astonishing intellect, Monique is genuinely caring and thoughtful. What really impressed me was her ability to hear all of what I was saying and hone in on a particular detail or aspect that turned out to be the key to addressing an issue. Furthermore, her authenticity really shines through in her coaching. She always made me feel at ease and established an environment of openness and trust. Plus, she has a great sense of humor that makes it pleasant to work through things that aren't always pleasant to work on!”
Robert Kelley Ayala, Co-founder
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“I highly recommend Monique’s coaching practice to professionals evaluating their capabilities and professional goals or considering a career advance or transition. I was drawn to her solid academic credentials, experience with senior executives, and recommendation from the career center at MIT Sloan School of Management. Monique brings a variety of tools to the table – but most importantly, an ability to empathize in an objective and non-judgmental manner. I found her focus on mindset, values, emotions, and quality of experience innovative. I would emphasize Monique’s deftness in leading discussions towards self-discovery and productive reflection to overcome the challenges and obstacles I faced in reaching my professional objectives.”
Sergio I. Delgado Trevino, Portfolio Manager and Board Member
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“Monique is a fantastic coach who brought out the best in me and strongly supported me during the coaching process. She is extremely qualified, very caring, and a great listener. She helped me to reflect and explore different issues without judgement, always focusing on my goals and dreams to transform them into actions. She built a trusting relationship that helped sharpen my focus. She’s a great listener and helped me move forward on my goals. I recommend Monique if you want to reach your potential and find new opportunities.”
Alain Pottier, Co-founder
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"Monique is an exceptional leadership coach. She has a knack of getting to the roots of her clients’ experiences and creating effective strategies, based on a wealth of academic and leadership expertise. In my journey to grow the next phase of my career, Monique has been a supportive fellow traveler who brings a powerful blend of empathic challenge, inspired thinking, and pragmatism."
Michael Fischer, Professor of Organisational Culture & Leadership
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“The coaching we did has been very beneficial to me. I continued to learn after our coaching sessions were complete. You helped me gain comfort in my own skin and in my ability to project that confidence professionally in a way that is honest, direct and constructive, using empathy with the other party. I believe I had some of the ingredients laying around, but you helped me put it together, and for that I am grateful! Over the past several weeks there have been some management changes in my company and I'm talking to my manager about a potential change in my role. The actions I’ve taken on my own behalf were influenced by the discussions we had. I’m being my authentic self and reshaping my role into one that motivates me.”
Software sales manager
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“Monique is a skilled and gifted coach. She’s an excellent listener who uses what she hears to craft thought-provoking questions and paint word pictures that contain valuable wisdom for clients. She helped me gain clarity and confidence about my next steps. I am grateful I was able to work with her and highly recommend her.”
Mary Byers, Consultant, Speaker, Facilitator, and Author
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“I worked with Monique as a coach I was launching Graying Green: Climate Action for an Aging World. She was great: a perfect blend of asking insightful questions, listening to the answers, and helping me see the implications of those answers. I recommend her highly as a coach & facilitator.”
Mick Smyer, Founder & CEO
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“Monique is a dynamic, generous, thoughtful coach who takes the time to develop bespoke solutions for each client's needs. In my case, she tapped into my dormant but deeply resonant passion for performance to help me get past a serious creative block. Anyone who has the opportunity to work with Monique should definitely take it.”
Anne Ryan Hanafin, Teacher
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“Monique is great to work with. Inspiring, energetic and a fantastic role model for women looking to develop their careers and fly. What I really admire about Monique is her “just go for it” and bold attitude and she really does push her own boundaries to see what can be achieved. If you get the chance to have Monique as your coach, she will fill you with confidence to step forward and give things a go.”
Amanda Page, Founder
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“Monique is fully present and notices the nuances of what is going on. Monique listened actively and provided direct feedback by reflecting back what she heard and noticed, thus creating powerful awareness of what was going on within me. Her reflections of what she was noticing were eye-opening. Monique is also very warm and caring; she makes it comfortable to go deep and explore areas that are new and unknown. I had some powerful insights about myself. Thanks to Monique’s coaching, I am feeling more centered in my choices and understand myself better.”
Ave Peetri, Executive Coach and Founder
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“Monique is an enabling coach. She creates the space for reflection and guides you through it with well-placed powerful questions and insights that allow you to comprehend your deeper thoughts and to set actions for the future. She can be practical, helping you to design specific actions to move forward. She can also help you look at the bigger picture when reflecting on deeper themes is more important. The fact that she gave me space and the opportunity to reflect worked well with me; the coaching was always about my agenda and thoughts. I enjoyed and learned from her approach and gentle guidance. At a tangible professional level, I became clearer on what I want to achieve. And at a more personal level, I learned to give myself a break and appreciate my strengths further. Thank you, Monique, for the insightful and fun coaching sessions.”
Learning and Development professional
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“Monique is a great coach. She is direct and inquisitive and asks thought-provoking questions that add value. In my case, I was stuck on a project. She asked a few very simple, specific questions that helped me get a good jump start. It changed my path and really helped me move forward.”
Karen Semon
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“Monique is truly supportive and inspiring. She picked up the inconsistencies in my managerial behavior and brought them to my attention for me to address. She has a softly corrective approach that is most encouraging. Without any hesitation, I would recommend her as a coach for any of my colleagues.”
Chief Security Advisor, United Nations Department of Safety and Security
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“One of my defining connections of 2019 was with coach extraordinaire Monique. I had participated in mentorship programs before, but this was my first coaching experience. Monique created a non-judgmental space where she asked me important questions and helped me sort through the answers. This was very instrumental in preparing me for success in 2020.”
Melissa Sobers, Strategy and Policy Adviser
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“Monique is experienced and knows her job. Her style of coaching is excellent. She has the gift of listening, guiding you in the right direction by asking questions. She was able to draw out what was bothering me from deep inside without me noticing it. She kept me at ease, always encouraging me to contribute to solving a problem. I was relaxed and felt very engaged in the coaching. Her input was simple and useful. I benefited a great deal from the coaching.”
Chief Security Advisor, United Nations Department of Safety and Security