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One-on-one success coaching

In one-on-one success coaching, I will help clarify your goals and vision and create a change within yourself. We will focus on what’s essential for you and discover where you get your energy from. We tackle limiting beliefs, values, and emotions that may have kept you from unleashing the power within you and achieving your dreams until now. We will accomplish this by taking a step back and putting things into perspective. We look at what you are passionate about and where you aim to develop new skills or attitudes to achieve personal fulfillment.

Coaching relationship

Coaching is an ongoing relationship which is tailor-made specifically for your development. The coaching agreement will be for a minimum of five sessions to get the best results. Each session will be an hour long. We will agree on the frequency of the meetings, depending on your goals. Some clients want to attend coaching once a week, while other clients prefer to do so once a month to put a new skill into action. The coaching sessions are held through web video applications such as Zoom or by telephone. The sessions will always take place in a trusting environment, away from external distractions.

Coaching objectives

You will set the agenda as you are the only person who knows best what matters for you and what you want to achieve. I will stand by you and support you no matter what your goals are.

Coaching process

In each session, we aim to develop new skills and attitudes by changing the filters through which you see the world. My sound and unbiased guidance will boost your life, leadership, and the ability to find the answers you are looking for. I inspire taking action to move forward  through compassionate listening and presence, exercising curiosity, asking powerful questions and empowering you.

Coaching outcomes

At the end of each session, we will evaluate if the coaching was successful, how far we have moved towards the established goals, and how far we have moved towards achieving your dreams. We will also agree on a specific action plan before the next session.

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Career Coaching

Most people's career paths have become more varied, and transitions in and out of specific jobs are more common. Career coaching is a powerful tool to boost your effectiveness and attractiveness, be it for the organization where you are currently working for, or for companies that might want to hire you. It will help you move forward in your current job role, or open new pathways that will get you more exciting and better-paid jobs.

Career coaching allows you to become aware of limiting beliefs, ineffective patterns, and behaviors and how those patterns affect your relationship to yourself or to others. To overcome obstacles and maximize your effectiveness, you'll need a fresh perspective on the whole array of your talents, skills and abilities. Understanding your unique qualities and talents will enable you to enhance your career within your organization, or find a new job where you can work with more passion and be more successful, which will ultimately be more rewarding financially.

As a coach, I have worked with board members, executives, graduates, and stand-out people worldwide to enhance their motivation, drive, and clarify their goals and outlooks for their careers. We will focus on what is important to you during our coaching sessions. We will look at what you are passionate about, what you value, and what has prevented you from achieving your professional dreams. I will help you face the challenges in your organization, choose new career directions, and prepare you for job interviews.

Career coaching can have spectacular outcomes. Many of my clients have gotten promoted in their organizations, or found new and exciting jobs.

Coaching relationship

Coaching is an ongoing relationship tailor-made specifically for your development. The agreement will be for at least five coaching sessions to achieve the best results. Each session will last one hour. Depending on your goals, we will design a schedule and agree on how often the meetings will take place. Some clients want coaching once a week, while other clients prefer it once a month to put new skills into action. The coaching sessions are held through web video applications such as Zoom or by telephone. The sessions will always take place in a trusting  environment, away from external distractions.

Coaching objectives

You will set the coaching sessions' agenda. I will help you identify your objectives, and together we will develop an actionable plan to achieve it. My sound and unbiased guidance will boost your understanding of what holds you back on your leadership and the best pathway to a successful career.

As your career coach, I will accompany and support you in whatever your goals are.

Coaching process

We will start each session with a review of your progress since the previous meeting and set  a specific goal for the session. I will ask you thought-provoking questions and, whenever required, give you feedback. Sometimes, the session may develop into a brainstorming session. We will do whatever it takes to bring you to the new level of action that’s required for the professional challenge  you are facing.

Coaching outcome.

At the end of each session, we will evaluate if the session was successful and how far we’ve moved towards the established career goal. We will also agree on a specific action plan before the next session.

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Testimonials

Many of you have already experienced Rene’s coaching style and insight, and you might agree with me that he is a fantastic leadership development coach and provides interesting perspectives and insights. His mind works in a very wise way, and his life and career experience are fascinating. I hope everyone who wants to will be able to find a time to meet with him while he’s here.
Kelly
Kelly O'Brien, Global Career and Leadership Development
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
"René is both a superb listener and a great synthesizer of ideas. He's a coach who takes in all the fine details of a person's story, then picks out patterns and themes that give a valuable explanatory perspective that the client can't easily see for her/himself, and from there delivers insightful suggestions that lead the client to a more lucid self-understanding with positive action points - which is the true value-add of a great coach."
Anthony
Anthony Nahas, PARIS - France
René is a highly sensitive and empathetic person.  Sharing with him is very nice because you sense a deep relationship and feel accompanied by him. With his breadth of knowledge and experience, he has always something of value to contribute. He has helped me to ask myself questions that I might not have asked if I had not had this space.  As a result, I could develop tools that allowed me to be better prepared to face certain situations in the future. I can highly recommend working with him!
Alex
Alex Komaromi, Montevideo - Uruguay
World Series Poker Champion
"I know René as a man with empathy and a deep tangible interest in the people around him. You can see in his eyes that he senses your emotional state. I know that I can always approach him when I need someone to listen and help me find my way. As everyone, René has had his share of darkness and personal crisis to deal with. During these times, he has sustained himself admirably and continued to passionately care for those closest to him while he was not in a good place. For full disclosure, he has been a friend for many years, since business school in fact."
Markus
Markus Stadlmann, Vaduz - Liechtenstein
"René, thanks for asking questions leading to answers so close to my eyes. Sometimes, you need a guide to find the things you've been staring at for years".
Piotr
Piotr Robak, Warsow - POLAND
"René Sonneveld has saved me at least 6 months of erratic thinking aimed at shaping my academic career to fit it into the biopharmaceutical sector. He's uncovered values that I had never identified, and he has smartly pinpointed the right questions. Astonishing how René can dissect your needs and provide shortcuts towards accurate answers. No matter what market you are in, seek his coaching. He'll get your money's worth."”
Fernando
Fernando de Mora, Professor of Pharmacology
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
"After being a project manager for building hotels in Russia and managing a family-owned training institute in Vienna, I started to think about what to do next at the age of fifty-five. It seemed like a perfect time for hiring a coach to see what I wanted to do for the next ten years of my life. I had numerous ideas, and coaching with René helped me put them in the right perspective; to understand the interconnection of these ideas. I probably could not have figured this out by just pondering my brain. Therefore, I can highly recommend his coaching to take a step back and get an objective and refreshing view of things."
Peter
Peter Kutschera, Vienna - AUSTRIA
"Rene coaching sessions have been extremely thoughtful, motivational, and to say the least, life changing. His approach of patience combined with encouragements allowed me to tap into aspects of myself and especially to improve the organization of my days. Rene created a natural environment where I could express myself and explore my potential. With each session I could see tangible results and growth. "
Christophe
Christophe Beaud, CEO peoplefone Group
Zurich, Switzerland

"Rene has a wealth of experience in advising senior teams and company boards that transpire and becomes evident when he is coaching you. When he coaches, he combines a rational side, based on his long experience, with an acute observation of details, emotions and empathy of the person. This holistic combination of "head and guts" makes the coaching doubly effective, uncovering solutions that a simple approach would not have achieved. In summary, it is a very effective pleasure having him as a coach."
Salvador
Salvador Barrio, DHL Supply Chain, Madrid - Spain
Paradigm Shift
Every session that I had with Rene had a realization leading to a perspective change and a short term goal to achieve tangible results.

Impact
Rene is highly imaginative and has fantastic skills in picking the right detail in a dialogue, and is always positive. He loves coaching, and it is visible in every minute of my discussions with him. Within a few sessions, my emotional construct shifted from extreme stress to highly optimistic and forward-looking.

Connection
Rene forms connections at an emotional level. No matter how my emotional state was before a session, I always come out of it highly energetic and with a positive outlook.

Once you get to know him, you connect with him for life.
Aravind
Aravind Kona, Commodities Research, Hyderabad, India
“René is a highly qualified businessman, but also a very good coach. He combines his broad experience in different aspects of business and management with his advanced knowledge of coaching using “state of the art” approaches. Being coached by René has been a great experience for me and an invaluable help in different situations.”
Raul
Raul Echeberria, Executive Director at Asociación LatinoamericanA de Internet
Montevideo, Uruguay
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