Meet The Coalition
Licensed facilitators of
adapt and succeed
Members of Global Coach Coalition are a select group of practitioners and coaches who have undergone rigorous personal and professional development to become licensed facilitators of Adapt & Succeed. More than a group, it is a movement to get proven strategies in the hands of more of the globally mobile so they can make the most of their lives IN TRANSIT.
Alicia Giblett
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
Alicia has spent a decade educating international school students across elementary and middle school as an elementary classroom teacher, middle school design teacher, ICT teacher, educational technology specialist, and even at times, a librarian and performing arts teacher.
She met her British husband in Bangladesh and gave birth to her son in Austria. Every year was a new adventure - spanning 9 “homes”, 4 countries and 3 continents in 11 years. Constantly changing, moving and reinventing, Alicia understands transitions.
Desiring to continue working with students but on a deeper level in the areas of mental, emotional and social health and well being, Alicia left the classroom and undertook one more transition - a professional one! Alicia is passionate about working with International School Teachers, Parents of TCKs and TCKs themselves to support them in leaving well, arriving well and living well abroad.
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Clients
Third Culture Kids, Middle School - University
International School Teachers and Families
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English
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Location / Time Zone
Malawi / GMT + 2
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Website
Andrea Puck
Imperial Feng Shui Consultant
Born and currently living in Germany Andrea has a global mindset and experience living on 3 continents for over a decade. She understands the hassle of moving around and getting settled in your home of choice. As a certified Imperial Feng Shui Consultant and a member of the Expat Coach Coalition she is facilitating a unique program tailormade to support expats on their journey back home.
Related to her family history Andrea also has a background and personal experience in Naturopathy and Herbalism. So well-being is an essential part of her work with clients.
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Clients
Repatted expat families and those soon to repatriate.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Angie Weinberger
The Global Mobility Coach
Angie Weinberger has over a decade of coaching experience and 25 years in International Human Resources, specialized in Global Mobility for Germany and Switzerland. Angie supports minority expats looking for income in the host country and those looking to build high-performing global virtual teams. Angie Weinberger became an Intercultural Executive Coach in 2010 by Dr. Eva Kinast and Drs. Boudewijn Vermeulen.
In 2013 and 2015 she was certified as a Professional Certified Coach by the same coach educators.
In 2018 she was certified as a seminar leader for group coaching according to the Boudewijn Vermeulen® method by Dr. Eva Kinast. Angie has been an licensed practitioner of Adapt & Succeed Abroad since November 2020. She has worked with over 250 coaching and consulting clients. She also has a background in systemic consulting and intercultural training.
Committed to bringing the Human Touch back to Global Mobility, Angie is the author of ‘The Global Career Workbook’, a self-help career guide for internationally mobile professionals and ‘The Global Mobility Workbook’. She is a recognized consultant and lecturer in Global Mobility and Intercultural Management. She also lived and worked in the UK, Australia and India.
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Clients
Expats and their partners
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Languages
German, English
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Location / Time Zone
CET
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Website
Anna C. Seidel
Global Mobility Trainer
Confidently navigate the chaos and confusion of expat life with children supported by Anna, an experienced mother of global nomads. Anna is a certified trainer, coach, and engineer with 40+ years of expat experience who empowers clients as parents and as individuals. Building on a solid foundation of experience and state of the art programs she helps the whole family love their expat experience without regrets.
Anna has lived abroad all her life and is currently raising her own Third Culture Kids in a cross-cultural marriage. She knows what keeps you awake at night - as a parent and as an individual.
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Clients
Parents raising children outside their passport country.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Arlette Chatlein
Expat Life Coach
Born in Curaçao, Arlette moved to The Netherlands when she was 19 years old. Little did she know that it would only be her first expatriation. Arlette is a certified coach with 20+ years of experience of multicultural expat life in Africa, Asia and Europe and mother of a 27 years old son and a 16 years old daughter.
She has knows firsthand what challenges expats face when relocating with their family to different cultures and is passionate about supporting expats in their journey to feeling grounded, empowered and able to overcome the everyday challenges of Expat Life.
Her focus is helping you grow effective relocation roots in order to expedite your relocation success.
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Clients
Expats spouses, Expats, Repats
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Languages
English, Dutch
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Location / Time Zone
Italy / CET /UTC +1
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Website
Coming soon
BARBORA GEMMELOVA
The Expat Coach
Barbora is a mentor to solo expats. Originally from Slovakia, she has lived, worked, and studied in Switzerland, the UK and Italy for a decade. Having emigrated solo at the age of 19 and starting from scratch, she understands what creating a life abroad means with all its ups and downs.
She aims to empower and support expats aged 20-35 seeking their true self while facing expectations from their original background and a new local culture.
As an expat, she understands that expatriation, as well as an unexpected repatriation, can be a blessing or a disaster. It is her goal to help her clients turn their experiences into an eye-opening and empowering opportunity.
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Clients
Solo Expats, Introverts
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Languages
English, Italian, Slovak
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Location / Time Zone
CET
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Ben Voegele
Male TCK Coach
Born in Idaho but raised overseas, author Ben Voegele spent his formative years in Hong Kong and Taiwan. An advocate for Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and the ex-pat life in general, Ben has also lived and worked professionally in Shanghai, China, as the Director of Admissions at Shanghai Community International School. Currently finishing up his master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Ben is passionate about working to combat the stigma associated with men’s mental health issues and the well-being of TCKs and ATCKs. Ben is a teacher, coach, published author, ex-pat facilitator, podcast host (BenThere), speaker, and blog writer (BenThere.org). A proud Boise State University graduate, Ben lives in Salt Lake City, UT, with his wife, Emilee, and their dogs, Kayla and Wrigley.
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Clients
Expat & TCK Consultant/Facilitator
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Languages
English (Fluent), Mandarin Chinese (Proficient)
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Location / Time Zone
Salt Lake City, UT (Mountain Time)
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Website
Claire Hauxwell
Confidence and Mindset Coach
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Clients
Female Accompanying Supportive Spouses/Partners (Expat and Domestic) – Stay-At-Home Moms, Empty Nesters, Child-Free Accompanying Spouses and Self-Employed/Entrepreneurial Spouses
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
Zurich, Switzerland (CET)
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Website
Dawn Fleming
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
Dawn is originally from Minnesota. After a successful real estate career and a divorce, Dawn totally switched careers. She graduated Western State University College of Law and became a licensed attorney in 1996, specializing in International Business Transactions. Dawn provided expert advice on intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, distribution and franchising, and corporate law.
Realizing a legal career was not in alignment with her goals, Dawn retired as a lawyer. She went on to become an award-winning Top Producer and popular Corporate Sales Trainer in the relationship marketing industry. For over two decades she trained and mentored thousands of entrepreneurs helping them launch, grow and maintain successful home based businesses.
Due to her courageous audacity to change careers, locations and lifestyles others asked for guidance. She launched the Overseas Life Redesign podcast to share stories of other courageous souls who stepped out of their comfort zone to create a new life abroad. Her training and coaching programs were born out of Dawn's burning desire to help others find community and support. Her book Claim Your Dream Life will be released in March 2022.
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Clients
Dawn helps midlife (age 40-65) professionals and business owners from the US and Canada create the life they’ve always imagined overseas (first time expats).
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
America/Cancun (CST most of the year, changes to EST during US Daylight Saving Time)
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Elena Darmenko
Cross-Cultural Psychologist and Adaptation Strategist
Elena is from Moscow (Russia) and was raised in a multicultural family.
She’s an expert in cross-cultural communication with over 15 years of experience in Psychology and Foreign Relations. She also has a background in Strategic Management. Her personal expat story includes several years in Scandinavian countries and the Middle East.
In 2020 Elena completed her postgraduate degree at Diplomatic Academy of Russia in the field of professional adaptation of foreign staff of international organizations.
She focuses on the adaptation of introverted expats to help them feel more self-confident both in professional and personal communication by creating their own comfort zone.
Elena is a certified Art therapist and helps expats to manage their stress in new cultural conditions. She also supports intercultural couples, who want to improve their relationships and build their unique family culture.
Elena’s core value and principle is to be on her clients’ side whatever happens in their lives, assisting them to make the most of their experience abroad.
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Clients
Expat professionals, intercultural couples, introverted expats
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Languages
English, Russian
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Location / Time Zone
Moscow, Russia UTC +3
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Website
Erin Reyes
Intercultural and Language Specialist
An expat since 2006, Erin has gone from living as a single woman in a remote village of Central America to raising a family in one of the largest cities in the Middle East. She is skilled in supporting fellow expats to navigate the complexities of an international life. She is the Founder of Culture Dive and co-founded Shababeek Intercultural Development Center in Amman, Jordan, which facilitated over 388,000 hours of Arabic language sessions in the first 7 years of operation.
Erin has advised 1000s of people as they learn Arabic, and knows the frustration of struggling to communicate and the exhaustion of living in a different culture. She wants to help you transition well and flourish abroad.
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Clients
Language learners, individuals and young families looking for a supported start overseas.
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Languages
English and Arabic
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Location / Time Zone
Jordan
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Hélène Raison
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
At age 15, Hélène, French by birth, left her rural county to start a journey of back-and-forth abroad experiences. She also experienced the “tough repat” experiences. She has lived in France, Pennsylvania and Texas in the USA, Mexico, South Africa, and recently repatriated to Lyon, France.
After years in banking, she made a switch to be more of service to others. She has worked for organizations whose main drivers are empowerment and social and economic inclusion. She is a certified coach.
From her expat life, she loves navigating between groups, like an "outsider within," investing herself where she lives as much as she can to dig in the new culture she encounters and create bridges of understanding.
She has incorporated her love for questioning through all of her work to ensure there is a clear call to action that helps her clients thrive in who they want to be.
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Clients
Expat professionals, accompanying partners, and other relocating individuals or families who do not identify as expats
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Languages
French, English, Spanish
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Location / Time Zone
Lyon, France/ UTC + 1 hour
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Website
Jane Ordaz
The Menopausal Expat
Life on the move is challenging, and to top it off: you’ve hit menopause. This is the most significant change of your life in mind, body and spirit. Discovering the new you is unsettling, what’s more you’re doing it as an expat. Work with Jane to take control of both journeys, eliminate the overwhelm, and make the most of you during this powerful time.
Jane is British married to a Mexican living in Mexico, and “proudly menopausal.” A qualified coach and mentor with 30+ yrs supporting others to fulfill their potential, Jane is also an intercultural dialogue facilitator. Curiosity is her north star.
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Clients
Globally mobile menopausal women.
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
Mexico
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JULIANNA OVERMEYER
Christian Expat Adventure
As a child Julianna always wanted to live overseas. When her children grew up, she flew the nest. With a passion to see God glorified in the lives of young people, she spent 1 year in the Gambia, West Africa before meeting a South African and moving for love (and service). Currently she is the Center Director for a small NPO that assists women and families confronted with Gender-Based and Domestic Violence.
Married to a South African, Julianna has 3 grown daughters and is learning to be the “Best Grandma” to 3 boys and 2 girls residing in the USA. She is passionate helping Christians recognise how God is working in and through the process of transition, no matter what their vocation or line of work.
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Clients
Lovepats, Expat grandmas, Christians abroad
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
South Africa (SAST) GMT+
Kim Adams
Mentoring Families Abroad
Creator of the Expat Family Connection podcast, Kim is on a mission to raise a healthier generation of Third Culture Kids - and the parents who raise them. She loves learning through reading, which helps her feel prepared - even for the unknowable - and wants to put that to good use by sharing it with others.
She’s given birth in every country she’s lived in so far (does that mean it’s time to stop moving?!?!) and brings her experience guiding families through vulnerable periods to her work as a licensed practitioner of Adapt and Succeed Abroad.
Kim understands international schools from the inside (due to her husband’s job as a teacher and now administrator) and outside (as a parent). She’s experienced the difference between living in a city with an excellent expat support network, and one where there’s virtually no support. Kim is committed to help you bridge the gap to have the support you need.
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Clients
International schools families and teachers. Parents raising TCKs. American IB families abroad.
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
Oman
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Linda Mueller
Expat Partner Coach
Linda empowers expat partners to create a life they love, one filled with purpose, fulfillment, and a renewed sense of self. With extensive personal and professional experience overseas, and as a three-time repat, she utilizes her experience to coach expat partners with compassionate accountability during all stages of the expat/repat cycle.
Linda is a certified life coach and the mother of a third culture kid with 10+ years of expat partner experience in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. She fully understands the opportunities and challenges that expat partners encounter while living abroad and is passionate about supporting those on a similar journey.
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Clients
Expat partners & repats who want to find purpose and design a life they love
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
USA / CST / UTC -6
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Website
María J Devolx López
Expat Partner Coach
After 20+ years of living abroad as expat, repat, and fauxpat, María decided to put her international life experience to work. She is passionate about working with those who enter the expat world for the first time AND seasoned expats in need of readjustments to embrace the global mobility lifestyle with its thorns and many flowers. María is Spanish, married to a Belgian diplomat and is the mother of three kids born in three different continents. She lives and breathes expatriation in her very own way.
María has worked in the corporate world, taken 8 gap years to look after her kids, reinvented herself as an educator and currently is working toward ICF coaching certification. Throughout her life, María has adapted her professional journey to her personal goals, enriching her life with a wide range of working and learning experiences.
María´s focus is on adapting. She enjoys transforming challenges into opportunities and being intentional about living a happy life. She believes that the expat life is like filigree: twisted and beautiful!
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Clients
Expats to-be, new expats on the block, expats in a personal transition. Spanish speaking expat women.
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Languages
Spanish, English, French
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Location / Time Zone
Belgium / UTC +1
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Matthias Augustin
Global Mobility Facilitator, Coach and Trainer
Matthias, born in Zurich, Switzerland, is a certified coach, corporate mentor, and trainer. People in change processes, whether in their professional or private lives, are his main focus. In the context of Global Mobility, it doesn't matter if someone settles down in a new country, if one is a LovePat living with someone together from another country or culture or if one is now planning to move to the next country or even to return to one's country of origin. As a man in his fifties, Matthias is also an ideal sparring partner for men in such situations.
In his work, Matthias also coaches executives and c-level executives in their professional development, reorientation, or building up new businesses as well as in the areas of leadership, mental fitness, and resilience. More than 50 percent of his clients have a cultural background other than Switzerland. Matthias has further training as a business mentor/coach and has completed the training as a Global Mobile Facilitator. He is the father of two adult sons and lives together with his girlfriend.
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Specializations
Expats / lovepats (partners of expats) / repats, relocation and onboarding into new business roles and companies, but then also job applications, team communication, leadership, resilience, sleep, burnout prevention, mental health and life design.
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Clients
People in change processes who want to grow into their potential through reflection and willingness to learn.
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Languages
German and English
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Location / Time Zone
Switzerland / Winter CET (UTC +1) / Summer CEST (UTC +2)
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Nancy Wigglesworth
The Lovepat Coach
British humour meets German efficiency. Nancy has lived abroad for most of her adult life and has made Germany her new home. She has 25+ years of experience in the international relocation industry, and is a certified coach, trainer, and NLP practitioner. She lives just outside of Munich with her German husband and Spanish dog.
Nancy strongly believes it doesn’t have to be difficult. She’s on a mission to inspire people to find confidence, connection and laughter whilst making a new country home.
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Clients
Lovepats; those who have moved abroad for love and life, and are living long term in their new country.
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Languages
English and German
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Location / Time Zone
Germany
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Nic Scholtysik
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
Nic is a ThirdCultureKid (TCK) turned serial-expat who recently moved to her 7th country. She’s living the multi-cultural married life and raising 2 TCKs in Sweden. In her podcast A Home Worth Having she explores belonging and how we can create it when we’re living an international life. Her own expertise lies in interior design and how to create space that makes us think and feel good about ourselves and what ‘enoughness’ is for each of us individually.
Nic rooted her design work in the idea of essentialism and sustainability: “As little as possible, but as much as needed to feel complete and satisfied.” She prides herself in designing spaces that don’t pose for social (media) likes, but that make life for her clients easier by focusing on their personality and the future memories they yet want to have. She helps first time expat families make their life abroad a mindful and savoring experience from the start. For experienced long-term expats/immigrants, Nic supports those who are ready to stop pretending their experience is temporary and fully dive into designing what their settledness should look and feel like.
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Clients
First-time and experienced expats.
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Languages
English, German, French, Spanish, and Polish
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Location / Time Zone
Stockholm
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PAULINE ALBERTS
Expat Success Coach
Pauline is a lifelong expat; originally from the Netherlands. She grew up and lived in seven different countries and worked on four continents, both as the accompanying spouse as well as for her own professional assignments. She is married and has three children (one with special needs) who were all born in the Middle East.
She started her professional life as project manager and consultant with a large international company and then spent many years in various forms of education. In 2016 she found her passion for human behavior and personal development. She is now an ICF Certified Professional Life and Leadership Coach and Coach Trainer and has her own coaching practice with clients all over the globe.
From experience, Pauline knows that being successful in an international and culturally diverse environment comes from good preparation, a healthy amount of self-knowledge and the right guidance, during the whole journey of transition. Both in her coaching conversations as well as in her workshops and trainings, she is an empathetic, engaged and inspiring partner for her clients, supporting them towards new insights and successes.
Specializations: Leadership (at work and at home). Wellbeing (incl. burnout prevention and recovery). Transitions (anything from a new country to a new life phase)
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Clients
Cross-cultural Teams / Expats / Expat partners / Repats
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Languages
English and Dutch
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Location / Time Zone
Amsterdam / Winter CET (UTC +1) / Summer CEST (UTC +2)
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Renata Andrade
Global Work-Life Coach
A psychologist, coach, HR executive and 4x expat, Renata specializes in helping expat women reconnect with their purpose, their self-worth and figure out a fulfilling career for themselves while supporting their families and their partners’ careers abroad. You’ll get emotional support as a whole person, from an experienced professional who's qualified to understand and support you ... while you create results.
Renata knows what it means to be an expat partner, to rethink and rebuild your career, requalify in 3 different countries knowing that you might move again, to raise Third Culture Kids, and to run a location-independent business.
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Clients
Expat women who want to figure out their careers abroad.
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Languages
English and Portuguese
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Location / Time Zone
Italy
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Sandra Corona
About This Member of Global Coach Coalition
Sandra Corona has resided in Saudi Arabia for the past 7 years. She sees herself as an Ologist. With nearly two decades of experience Facilitating and developing Partnership experiences for International Assignees she calls herself an ExpatOlogist. She chose to leave corporate to become an expat advocate and a strong believer in the Four invisible forces that make or break a team: Culture, Psychological Safety, Cognitive Diversity & Motivational Drive.
Coming from a Latin background, she knows what it’s like to be raised in a multicultural household. Throughout the years, she understood that the feeling of not-belonging was not related to color, race or country. With every move, she earned a badge in coping skills but also a set of new challenges. She continues to work on her courage, honesty, empathy and on the way, she looks forward to encouraging those that could possibly feel excluded or stuck while adjusting to life abroad or with every life move.
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Clients
Seasonal Expats, World explorers, curious minds, Expatriate Families and Grieving families abroad + pet grief.
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Languages
English, Spanish
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Location / Time Zone
Saudi Arabia / AST /
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Shannon Jones
Support for Relocating Families
Shannon is a certified life coach and founder of Thriving Relocation. She helps relocating families make confident decisions about relocating, transition smoothly when they move to a new place or repatriate back home, and create thriving lives no matter where they live in the world.
Shannon’s professional background in Psychology and Transformational Coaching, combined with extensive personal experience in international relocations, give her compassion and insight into the struggles that relocating families face. Her commitment to health, wellness and mindfulness is woven into her work with clients.
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Clients
Relocating Families
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
California, USA
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Susan Shirley
Cross-Cultural Leadership Adviser
Susan works with leaders and teams worldwide. As the founder of Global View Leadership, Susan’s mission is to ensure that cultural differences are never what keeps someone from reaching their goals. She helps international organizations develop their best employees by offering professional and team development services where and when they need them. Susan holds an MBA, is an ICF accredited coach, and has lived abroad seven times over five continents.
Susan has the perspective and sense of humor gained from first-hand experience living and working abroad in many different roles and cultural contexts.
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Clients
Expats, local & expat Staff in international organizations, cross-cultural teams.
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
India
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Susan Shirley
Cross-Cultural Leadership Adviser
Susan works with leaders and teams worldwide. As the founder of Global View Leadership, Susan’s mission is to ensure that cultural differences are never what keeps someone from reaching their goals. She helps international organizations develop their best employees by offering professional and team development services where and when they need them. Susan holds an MBA, is an ICF accredited coach, and has lived abroad seven times over five continents.
Susan has the perspective and sense of humor gained from first-hand experience living and working abroad in many different roles and cultural contexts.
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Clients
Expats, local & expat Staff in international organizations, cross-cultural teams.
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Languages
English
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Location / Time Zone
India
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Sheila Karwal
Global mobility facilitator and trainer
Sheila Karwal is an HR strategist, an intercultural trainer and facilitator. She has lived and worked on different continents and traveled to many countries as a diplomat. Currently Sheila is based in India. Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sheila has worked for many years as HR manager.
In that role she gained a wide and in depth experience in issues regarding global mobility, leadership and management in an international context and on what it takes to be successful abroad.
She has management, coaching and training experience and worked with individuals as well as teams both in the Netherlands and abroad.
Because of Sheilas’s international experience, she knows that working and living abroad can be a very rewarding experience but can also be hugely challenging. She has seen and experienced that many couples and spouses struggle during postings and are less effective and happy than they could be. Her drive is to support and help expats in their international assignments, in all stages of their global lives. It can really make all the difference between feeling lonely, lost and overwhelmed abroad and feeling happy together.
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Clients
First time and experienced expats, expat couples, diplomats.
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Languages
English and Dutch
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Location / Time Zone
Indian Standard Time +4,5/5,5 GMT
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