Coaching trajectories
- for scientists & driven professionals -
Deep down, everyone knows their own answers
However, sometimes it is hard to find those answers by ourselves, for various reasons:
My role is to help you find your own answers
In my coaching trajectories I"ll help you find those answers through:
And to help you take necessary steps
Coaching for scientists
Beyond your PhD
You are working on your PhD or you already have earned your PhD and are at a crossroads in your career. What will be my next step? Do I want to stay in academia? If yes, as a postdoc or assistant professor? Do I want to go abroad or stay here?
Maybe I want to leave academia. What job options do I have outside academia?
This process can be really overwhelming. How do I know what I want? Maybe you lack confidence or have no idea where to begin. Or maybe you are torn between completely different career options. During the coaching trajectory "Beyond your PhD" I’ll help you deal with your doubts or barriers, you will get practical steps, advice and coaching to help you find your next job.
Work-life balance in Academia - individual coaching
You are a driven academic who longs to make a difference with your work and at home. But at the same time you feel tired, overwhelmed or stressed and you struggle with feeling balanced. Maybe you think that a poor work-life balance is just part of what it means to work in academia. Maybe your struggle with balance makes you doubt whether you belong in academia. Maybe you feel that you have to make a choice between feeling balanced or living your ambitions. Work-life balance can feel daunting or even impossible when working in academia. Although finding balance in academia is no easy feat, it is certainly possible to feel more balanced!
You can make an impact in your work and private life and stay balanced along the way!
Coaching for driven professionals
Career coaching - Making career choices
You are at a crossroads in your career, you keep going in circles in your head and you cannot make a choice which way you want to go next. Perhaps there is a concrete opportunity opening up. But you can't decide whether you should go for this or something else. Or, Your contract is ending soon and you are wondering what next step suits you. You may have already made a list of the various pros and cons of possible next steps. But that does not provide a clear choice either.
Or, Perhaps no concrete choice presents itself, but something is nagging at you even though you have a great job and you are good at it. Rationally you can't complain at all. And yet .... You get much less energy from your work than you would like. You wonder: “Is this it? Can't I do much more? “ You want to get more energy and joy out of your work. Maybe you do a lot of things based on willpower, you adapt to what you think others expect of you and you feel like you live mainly on autopilot. Behind your dilemma there is a desire or a wish somewhere. Feeling what you want or desire will help you make a choice that really suits you and what you have to offer to the world.
Finding more balance
Do you feel out of balance? Do you feel rushed or stressed? Maybe you sleep poorly and worry a lot. Are you often exhausted at the end of the day and do you mainly work on willpower? Do you find it difficult to let go of work or home? Do you always feel like you're falling short somewhere? Or do you feel like you have to choose between your ambition and your balance?
You don't have to keep muddling along alone. You have to do it yourself, but you don't have to do it alone! I would be happy to help you get back in control of your work-life balance. So that you can experience more fun, lightness and energy in your life again. So that you feel more balanced while also making the difference you want to make in both your work and private life.
Take steps with confidence
You know exactly what you want, but somehow you don't take steps that will bring you closer to it.
And that makes you feel stuck or failing. Because you know what you want, right? Then why don't you just take a step?
Apparently there is something stopping you from moving. That doesn't mean you're failing. It just means that you still need something before you can take the steps you desire. I'm happy to help you find out what is stopping you and what can help you get moving.