Coaching
Coaching for professionals and leaders.
Practical, concrete, focused on work that matters.
For professionals, managers and engineers who want to take more ownership, find direction in their career, or become more effective as a leader. Practical and development-oriented, with room for depth where it's needed.
Who it's for
For people who take their work seriously.
The people I coach typically work in professional business environments: IT, engineering, consulting, services. They are strong at their craft, genuinely want to contribute, and run into something bigger than a quick question.
My coaching is practical and development-oriented, but can go deep where it needs to. I don't work as a treating therapist, but I have many years of experience with people who are stuck through burnout, trauma, identity questions or sustained pressure. There's room for that, even within a coaching engagement that is fundamentally about work and growth.
It stays a focused collaboration: concrete, honest, with respect for what already works and attention to what plays underneath.
Coaching for private individuals is possible, but the focus of my work is on people in a work context. Send an email if you want to explore whether it fits.
Harry has nearly 30 years of experience with professionals, managers and leaders in technical and knowledge-intensive organisations.
Themes
Eight areas where coaching has effect.
Ownership
Taking responsibility without putting everything on your shoulders. Distinguishing between what's yours, what's the other's, and what belongs to the organisation.
Clarity
What's the actual question here? Often there's another theme underneath a career question. Get that clear first, then decide.
Talent
Getting clear on what you genuinely can do and want to do, not what the market or the careers page says. Using your talent gives energy back.
Workload
Not just doing less, but looking at workload differently. Which patterns reinforce it, and which can you break without harming your work?
Career direction
Next step, different role, different employer, or going deeper where you are. A few focused conversations often achieve more than months of overthinking.
Courage and fear
Everyone has their own pattern around courage and fear. Seeing it helps you choose more deliberately, in meetings, in conversations and in decisions.
Personal leadership
How you lead yourself, how you lead others. Practical, with attention to both results and connection.
Collaboration and preferential styles
With Preferential Styles I make visible how someone's profile works in relation to others. It helps professionals and teams better understand collaboration, tension and complementarity.
Integrative coaching
For analytical professionals who have already explored the standard route.
Integrative coaching is a good fit for professionals who have already done a lot of their own thinking, but find that the conventional routes no longer reach their core question. You're not looking for standard advice, but for a sparring partner at the intersection of work, identity, direction and personal development.
Conversations can take place in English or Dutch. I bring several frames together: talents and values, patterns of courage and fear, personal development, and insights from neuroscience. No off-the-shelf answers, but a substantive conversation in which your own thinking becomes sharper, broader and more effective.
How it works
Concrete, aimed at your question, in focused conversations.
We start with a no-obligation intro call. That clarifies the question and whether the work is feasible: what's going on, what would a good outcome look like, and is the fit right between us.
An engagement is typically around 8 sessions, with the length adapted to your specific situation. We work on themes you can name, with assignments you try out in your own work. No sessions for the sake of sessions.
Formats
- Individual coaching, online or in person
- Career coaching focused on direction
- Leadership coaching for (first-line) managers
- Coaching paid for by the employer
- Short, focused trajectories on a specific question
If coaching turns out not to be the right form, I'm happy to think along about what might be.
Testimonials
What coachees report back.
Walter Lunenburgtechnical consultant“Working with MonadCompany has been a truly transformative experience. Coming from a software engineering background, I wanted to develop the mindset and skills required to grow into a managerial role.
I’ve experienced a genuine shift in paradigm, gaining a deeper understanding of leadership, not just in theory, but in daily practice.”
Bas Eversbusiness innovation consultant, MERLINQ“The most important thing Harry has given me is awareness. Awareness of perceptions of myself and of reality, and of the power of wording and visualization.
Harry has a very broad theoretical background and practical knowledge; he was able to tune his coaching to my needs, and I could confide in him. I would highly recommend Harry to anyone looking to pursue their talents, in career and private life.”
Mayur Yadavhead of data management, Oxitec Ltd“His logical and data-driven approach appealed to me immediately. The emphasis on growth mindset, paying close attention to internal patterns, creates a unique method which I have found immensely helpful.
He is always researching new frameworks to improve existing processes; I like this approach as it helps you grow and helps you know more about yourself.”
Want to explore whether it fits?
An intro call takes about an hour and is no-obligation. Send an email or call.