A private one-to-one relationship

Private Advisorywith Andrea

Everyone relies on you. Who do you rely on?

Six months or a year of private work with me, on your whole life: your work, your business, your relationships, your health, and whatever comes next. One person who is completely on your side, and who will always tell you the truth.

For leaders, founders and senior professionals.

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You can tell me anything.

You are the one who holds it all together. At work, people need you certain. At home, they need you fine. Everyone close to you has a stake in what you choose, so there are things you say to nobody.

With me, you can say them. I do not judge you, ever. It is the thing my clients mention most: they feel safe, heard and understood, and never judged.

I am fully on your side. That is exactly why I will always tell you the truth, with care, even when it is not comfortable for either of us. I will notice what you leave out. I will not let you settle for the easier answer when you already know there is a truer one. And I will still be there next week, while you live what you have chosen.

You are not looking for someone to fix you. You are looking for someone who will tell you the truth, and stay.

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One thing brings you. All of you comes.

People come to me about one thing:

  • A bigger role
  • A business they are growing
  • A business they are letting go of
  • A boss or a colleague
  • A marriage
  • Their children
  • A parent who needs more of them
  • Their health

Or something that keeps turning up wherever they go.

That one thing is where we begin. But nobody lives in compartments. What happens at work follows you home, and what happens at home walks into your meetings. When one part of your life moves, every other part moves with it.

So the work goes wherever you need it to go.

My clients

They are chief executives and other C-level leaders, chief people officers, heads of legal, finance, sales and marketing in international groups, country managers, general managers, partners in their own firms, founders and owners, and creative leaders: architects, designers and artists with studios of their own. Many of them are award-winning in their fields.

What they share is not the title. They are already successful, and they want their whole life to keep growing, not only their career.

They take responsibility for their own part, they do the work between sessions, and many of them stay for years.

Two armchairs in a light room, set for a private conversation

How we work together

It is not a course, and there are no modules. It is a private relationship with someone who comes to know your whole story.

Whatever you need that week is what we work on. Some weeks it is a board meeting or a negotiation. Some weeks it is your marriage, your parents, your health or a choice about money. Often it is all of them at once.

Between sessions, you do the part only you can do: the conversation, the boundary, the new habit. That is where most of the change happens. Then you bring back what happened, and we take it further.

The choices are always yours. My part is to help you make them well, and make them last.

What this can look like

Here are three of my clients. They came for three different reasons, and each of them changed far more than the thing they came for.

She came about work.

She led the legal team of a large international group. She was respected across her industry, and everyone around her relied on her. Everything landed on her desk, her boss was openly hostile, and her family was getting whatever was left of her. She was close to burnout, and asking herself whether it was time to leave.

We started with her: why saying no had always cost her so much, and what she actually wanted from her work and her life. Her boss was part of the work, and so was home.

She stayed, on her own terms. She learned to say no and keep to it, built a team that carried its share, and had more of herself for her family. Months later, she was named among the best lawyers in the country in her field.

She became this confident, powerful woman. We had always admired her at work, but she herself didn't feel it until she worked with you.

A colleague who watched it happen

She came about love.

That colleague was next. She decided to work with me before we had even spoken. She came about her relationships, and she stayed for a year.

Inside that year came a promotion, and a negotiation with several banks that the whole executive team had feared. The result was several times better than the best outcome the company had imagined, her bonus was bigger than anything she had hoped for, and the chief executive named the deal after her.

For the first time, I am finally all right. It is exactly the feeling I described at the beginning, the one I wanted. I used to feel it a few times a day. Now I feel it all day.

At the end of our year

She came with a business task.

That is what she called it. She has since left corporate life after twenty-five years, and is now a partner in her own firm.

From purely business task, thanks to Andrea's coaching, it has become obvious that my need lays in alignment of my actions with my values.

Written publicly, afterwards

Three different reasons, and the same thing underneath: their whole life moved.

A year on

What my clients tell me

  • They feel all right all day, not only a few times a day.
  • They say no calmly, and nothing falls apart.
  • They stop doing other people's part for them.
  • They are promoted, paid more, and named among the best in their field.
  • They are more open, because their boundaries are firmer.
  • They feel at home in themselves.
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It is real work.

I will not pretend this is easy. It is hard work, but not the busy kind you already know. There are things you will unlearn, and things you will learn anew. There are beliefs, habits and routines you have lived by for years, and you will look at each one and decide whether it still serves you.

The woman who came about love said it better than I can, at the end of our year together:

"If you wrote down on paper what we changed, the list would not look very long. But resetting those things was terrible. I would never tell anyone it is easy."

She did it anyway. That is what my clients do.

Long after we finish

Some of my clients have worked with me for years, and some for decades. Some continue without a break. Others come back whenever life turns a corner.

Nine years after we worked together, one woman wrote: "I feel that the foundation I got was from you."

Fourteen years on, a general manager wrote that he still remembered what he took from our work, that each of us has high value, and that it had been a turning point for him.

What is included

  • A two-hour opening session. We look at your whole life, not only the thing that brought you.
  • Weekly private sessions by Zoom, one to two hours, depending on what that week needs.
  • Messages between sessions, for the moments that will not wait. I reply personally.
  • A review halfway through, to see how far you have come.
  • A closing session, so you leave with what you need to carry it on yourself.
  • Six months or a year. Some people begin with six months and continue. Others commit to the full year from the start.

Your investment

Five figures, in pounds sterling

Paid in full at the start. You hear the exact figure in our Let's talk call.

Please note: it is not refundable. Your place is held for you alone for the whole six months or year, and I work with people who are all in. If life gets in the way before we begin, we can move your start date.

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Who you would be working with

30+years of professional life
80+nationalities
20+industries

More than thirty years of professional life, more than twenty of them in this work, with people from over 80 nationalities and more than 20 industries.

I have worked with leaders and senior professionals from Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies, among them Dell, HP, IBM, Sony, Foxconn, IKEA, Vodafone, DHL, Eli Lilly and AbbVie, and with all four of the Big Four.

Two of my private clients were named among the best lawyers in their country.

Another, an architect who owns her studio, has won international awards for her projects.

My own work was recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Czech Republic chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF) in 2015. I have built and run businesses of my own, too.

Is this you?

If you can say yes to all of these, we should talk:

  • You are good at what you do, and people rely on you.
  • You have built something real, and you want more from your life than more of the same.
  • You want one person who knows your whole story and is fully on your side.
  • You want the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
  • You are ready for the work: to unlearn, to learn anew, and to do your part between sessions.
  • You decide for yourself, and you pay for this yourself.

It is not for you if you are looking for a quick fix, or for someone to agree with you.

It has to be a wholehearted yes for both of us: for me, that I want to work with you, and for you, that you are ready to do the work and that I am the right person for it.

Questions people ask

Is it confidential?

Completely. I do not name the people I work with, and nothing from our work is shared anywhere without your written permission.

What if I only want to work on one part of my life?

Then that is where we start. Most people come about one thing: their work, their business or a relationship. Where it goes from there is always your choice, week by week. In my experience, though, when one part moves, the rest follows.

Six months or a year?

Some people start with six months and continue. Others choose the year from the start. We talk about what suits you before you commit.

When do I hear the exact investment?

In a free thirty-minute Let's talk call. There is no obligation to book anything afterwards.

Why is it not refundable?

Because it is your full yes to your own change. Your place is yours for the whole six months or year, and the work asks for that commitment from the very first session.

What happens after six months or a year?

Some people finish there. Many continue, or come back later. There is no pressure either way.

How it begins

A free thirty-minute Let's talk call. You tell me what is going on, and I tell you honestly whether Private Advisory is the right fit, or whether something else would serve you better.

You have been in everyone else's corner for a long time. Let someone be in yours.

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