What has shaped me and my coaching model

My career began in engineering and sustainability, but my true work has always been around people—building trust, fostering collaboration, and helping teams find their shared direction.

Outside of work, I’m fueled by long-distance rowing, sailing, yoga and the discipline of studying classical guitar and piano. I’m also a mother of three, navigating the joys and complexities of family life alongside the responsibilities of leadership. My personnal journey has also been shaped by profound loss…

These experiences have deepened my empathy, resilience, and perspective—qualities that shape how I support and connect with others.

All of this informs who I am today. As an executive coach, I bring honesty, compassion, and curiosity to every conversation. I help leaders find clarity, build confidence, and move through moments of change with strength and intention.

After many years working along colleagues in industry transition, I began to notice a recurring theme: the people leading change—colleagues, clients, friends—often carry a heavy load. Many give so much of themselves that they struggle to sustain their energy over time. Some start questioning how to keep their motivation alive. For many, these roles require not just resilience, but an ongoing commitment to rediscovering their sense of purpose amidst constant challenges and change.

These were the people trying to drive change from within, often without enough support, recognition, and space to reflect. They are sometimes pushing against systems not built for transformation, and doing it largely alone.

That’s when it became clear to me: while advising organizations matters, an other essential leverage point is often the people inside them—the change-makers carrying the weight of transition. What they need isn’t just strategies and frameworks. They need support. They need space to breathe, to process, to reconnect with why they do this work in the first place, space that allows them to pause, regain perspective, and remember the deeper purpose driving their efforts.

That insight made me want to add a new sail to CL4Change boat wardrobe and I am currently training as a, executive coach with a  coaching approach specifically designed for “Sustainability Leaders” — those driving change in companies and associations.

I strongly believe that when we support them, when we listen, encourage, and help them find clarity and resilience, it will strengthen the entire transition process from the inside out.

A coaching model dedicated to sustainability leaders with the IDGs as foundation

CL4Change Navigation Model - The CL4Change compass

CL4Change coaching model is build on Claude’s navigation passion and experience and aims at helping sustainability leaders navigating change. Navigation captures:

  • Intuition (reading winds, tides, stars)

  • Structure (maps, compass, navigation charts)

  • The journey (crossing uncertain waters, finding safe harbors, heading toward a destination).

Sustainability leaders are like captains at sea:

  • They have a destination (vision, values, deeper “why”).

  • They need both intuition (reading currents, listening to the crew, sensing storms) and structure (maps, compass bearings, navigation tools).

  • They are often in uncharted waters (climate change, sustainability, social innovation).

  • They need to balance dreams (star maps) with pragmatism (charts & maps).

  • The coach serves as a compass — not steering the ship, but providing clarity, perspective, and tools so the captain can lead with confidence.

All this using the IDGs as one of the navigation guide, the set of inner capacities that help us steer the ship, read the winds, and stay the course when storms arise.

In essence, the IDG remind us that outer change depends on inner growth. They provide the human foundation for the systems transformation we are all striving for.