From High Performer to Executive Leader
Executive coaching for newly-appointed and promising future directors
The transition from senior manager to executive leader is much more than a title change - it’s a transformation in identity, impact, and strategic scope.
Many high performers come across a roadblock when stepping into a broader leadership role. Not because they lack competence, but because no one prepares them for the shift: from expert to influencer, from delivering to leading.
This programme supports this transition and equips them with the mindset and leadership practices needed to succeed.
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​It’s not a course. It’s not therapy. It’s a fast-track, high-stakes, deeply personal transformation designed for leaders stepping into senior roles.
Why this programme is different
This isn’t executive coaching as usual.
We build a shared leadership lab inside your company. Up to 6 leaders, hand-picked, move through a confidential cohort experience. They challenge each other. They grow together. And they build a trusted internal network that lasts far beyond the program.
Alongside that: a powerful one-on-one executive coaching, real embodied leadership practice and a proven structure.
This dual-track approach delivers accelerated personal growth and a collective momentum.
The Experience
An 8-month container, custom-designed for your company’s strategic leadership pipeline.
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Individual executive coaching
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Cohort sessions with up to 6 peers
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Real-time leadership simulations
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Embodied leadership practice
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World-class 360° Leadership assessments
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Impact measurement at the end of the journey​
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No Cohort? No Problem. This transformation is also available as a bespoke one-to-one journey, tailored to your leadership context, pace, and ambitions.​
What you will gain
This programme strengthens the key capacities needed to lead at the next level. Depending on your needs we may focus on:
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Strategic integration: blending strategic vision with operational execution.​
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Authentic impact: developing the ability to impact and inspire at every organizational tier.​
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Resilient leadership: cultivating serenity and resilience in high-stakes environments.​
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Priority Setting : mastering the art of clear and effective prioritization.​
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Boardroom presence: embodying a leadership presence that resonates and drives results.​
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Your Leadership Evolution
This isn’t about learning more. It’s about becoming more.
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​The programme includes the following components:
Is this you?
You’re a newly appointed or soon-to-be senior leader.
You’ve been a high performer. Now you need to lead in a different way. You want to:
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Navigate increased complexity.
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Enhance influence across all organizational levels.
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Maintain clarity and impact under pressure.
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Improve boardroom exposure
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You want to grow, as leaders and as human beings. And you are ready to do the real work: engaging your mind, body and emotions to better understand yourself and turn a new leadership vision into powerful and consistant behaviours.
Why I Built This
I’ve walked alongside leaders for 20+ years, in Fortune 500s, scale-ups, and complex systems.
Again and again, I’ve seen the same thing: brilliance breaking down under pressure, not from lack of knowledge, but from disconnection, from purpose, body, self.
This programme is my way of changing that.
It is not theoretical. It’s visceral, rigorous, and real.
In their words
Manu has the extraordinary skill to teach you things just by listening and asking simple questions.
Ronny Goossens, Head of Digital - Aquafin
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In just a few hours I learned a lot about myself. I practiced being whole and present to what I care about and now I have the tools to not forget.
Caroline Thomaes, Vice-President Corporate Sales - Procter & Gamble
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Spending time with Manu was truly investing time in myself. Different from all other coaching, training or leadership courses was that Manu helped me to find inner peace with my authentic self. He invited me to untap this infinite potential and gave me some tools to support me in the journey. Then, it was up to me. And I’m working on it!”
Peter Pintens, International Portfolio and Innovation Director - La Lorraine Bakery Group
How to get started
The right partnership
Before launching a new cohort, we always start with a conversation. This ensures the programme is aligned with your organisational goals, and that it's the right fit for the leaders you have in mind.
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It’s also an opportunity to explore how the coaching dynamic will support both individual and collective growth.
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Whether you’re an HR leader, a senior executive, or simply someone who cares about growing real leadership, I’d be glad to explore if this fits your context. Contact-me.
