Frustrated at age 42 by a “glass ceiling” at an international bank in Paris, Véronique, an attractive Afro-French metis, came to me to strategize her “retirement” to a backwater, rural banking job in order to be closer to her two soon-to-be teen children. Within two coaching sessions, Véronique realized that she didn’t actually want that solution at all; that her dream ambition was to assert herself as an international banker, thanks to her language and technical skills.
Over the following sessions, Véronique learned a conflict management and negotiation technique called Non Violent Communication. We role-played interviews and used NLP visualization to build her confidence. By the time she successfully negotiated a favorable financial departure from her current job, she was enjoying her new-found empowerment. [Read more…]