"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

- Tao Te Ching

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Executive Coaching

One-on-one coaching creates space for dual development: activating the unique wisdom and gifts you already have while building concrete skills to increase your effectiveness.

Engagements are customized to your unique needs and context

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Coaching engagements include:

Assessment - Data gathering through 360 interview process, Enneagram assessment, and intake conversation

Personalized Coaching Program - Highly tailored and co-created program that includes observable outcomes to guide our work, relevant resources, and weekly practices

Adaptive Learning - Support integrating and applying new perspectives, skills, and practices to move the needle in the areas that matter to you most


Common outcomes:

+ Grounded confidence and authentic leadership presence

+ Greater clarity, ease, and enjoyment

+ Clearer and more effective communication and conflict resolution skills

+ Ability to navigate change and ambiguity without burning out

+ Positive ripple effects extending to teams, organizations, and communities

Client Testimonial

“Before starting coaching, I struggled with confidence in my own work and capabilities. I often felt overwhelmed by responsibilities and caught in cycles of anxiety that made it difficult to appreciate my achievements or trust my professional path.

The turning point came when Emilie helped me connect with my deepest strengths. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, she guided me to uncover my own mechanisms, to recognise where my resilience comes from, and how to activate it when I need it most.

From that moment on, I began to understand that the tools were already within me.

Today, things are different. I make decisions with more confidence, I recognize progress rather than take it for granted, and I face difficult moments with a sense of stability I did not have before.

Coaching with Emilie opened a window into self-knowledge, helping me discover my strongest roots and build a way of working that supports me through life’s challenges and demands.”


Alex U. - University Professor and Researcher

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Team Development

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High-functioning teams require intentional work to build trust, navigate differences, and create genuine alignment and coordination toward shared goals and vision. We strengthen your capacity to navigate complexity together and achieve your desired results with more ease and enjoyment.

Each engagement includes:

Assessment - Stakeholder interviews to understand team dynamics, personalities, challenge areas, opportunities, and priority topics to address

Co-design - Together, we articulate and clarify priority outcomes. From that foundation, we collaboratively design sessions for your team's specific dynamics to increase collaboration and effectiveness

Facilitation - With a team of world-class facilitators, we deliver powerful experiential workshops to deepen understanding and alignment, and practice new ways of working together to reach your goals


Common outcomes:

+ Greater alignment around values, vision, and strategy

+ Increased understanding and trust across differences

+ Ability to have difficult conversations, reduce drama and conflict

+ Improved communication and feedback loops

+ Strengthened relationships and team cohesion

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Leadership Programs

True leadership development requires immersive, cohort-based learning that combines skill-building, self-awareness, and real-world application within a supportive community of peers.

Drawing on tried and true learning arcs and adult learning methodologies, we design customized programs for your unique context.

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Program Design Process:

Assessment & design - Data gathering to understand organizational goals, participant needs and desires, as well as cultural/professional/community context

Curriculum development - We integrate experiential learning and fundamental skills practice with personal development work

Cohort-based learning - Participants learn and grow with and from their peers and build lasting networks of support

Applied practice - Learning is integrated via weekly self-reflections and practices, as well as via applied leadership projects

Common outcomes:

+ Grounded confidence and practical leadership skills

+ Deeper self-awareness and authentic leadership style

+ Peer networks that provide support and accountability

+ Tools to navigate complexity and ambiguity with greater ease

+ Leaders who are more effective, collaborative, and values-aligned

Client Testimonial

“When I had the vision of creating a leadership program for The African Leadership Group, it became reality with Emilie's help. She turned my ideas into a community project by getting input from community leaders. Emilie has helped these leaders know who they are through coaching and working with the Enneagram.

Program graduates have become elected officials thanks to her coaching.

Most fascinating is how Emilie navigates many different backgrounds. She is often the only white person in the room, among African Immigrants, African Americans, and Latinos, and she is at ease and much loved and respected. Emilie has transformed many lives in our community, including mine, and we love and appreciate her forever.”


Papa Dia, Executive Director - African Leadership Group

Collaborators and Co-facilitators

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    Effley Brooks

    President, Tiger Bee Consulting, LLC. Professor, University of Denver. Master Facilitator, Leadership Expert, Emotional Intelligence Coach.

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    Mary Shippy, Ph.D.

    Founder and President (Emeritus), Align Leadership. Transition coach, master facilitator, and organizational development expert.

  • A man with a beard and short hair, wearing a blue blazer and white shirt, standing next to a brick wall with arms crossed, looking at the camera.

    Madiama Mbaye

    Founder and President, Mentium Institute. Author, Executive Coach, Positive Intelligence Specialist, Public Speaking Trainer.

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    Marybeth Gallagher

    Founder and President, Insightful Leadership. Executive Coach, Corporate HR and Organizational Development Consultant and Advisor