Flore is Certified Professional Coach and Systemic Therapist. She is also certified in leadership assessment tools (Hogan, DISC) and holds a Master of Science in Engineering from French Grand Ecole ENSTA and an Executive MBA from Ecole des Ponts. Before becoming a coach, Flore had an extensive career as Executive Search Partner, Management Consultant and HR Executive in companies such as Accenture and Boston Consulting Group. She has lived in France, the UK, the US, Brazil and Hong Kong.
Through her career she has built a deep understanding of the challenges individuals come to face in rapidly changing and highly demanding environments. Her coaching approach is based in developmental psychology and consists of a few structured sessions with clear objectives. Throughout the sessions, she helps her clients untangle the complex situations they are faced with by nurturing a safe space and acting as a thought partner. She specializes in the following topics:
- How to manage complexity in personal or professional life: advancing a career, looking for a new role, managing an international team, solving blockers in terms of self-confidence or communication.
- Emotions management including stress and burn out.
- Leadership development.
- Entrepreneurs coaching
She deeply believes human beings are able to change. And to do so one needs active listening, time, and compassion as it is a journey to shift mindset and behavior. Her clients appreciate her nonjudgmental approach and her support in helping them getting clarity about their situation and their goals, they feel encouraged to look deeper at problems/obstacles by reflecting about their connections to their whole system (themselves, their team, the organization culture, their stakeholders, their supervisor) which makes new ideas emerge.
Her approach is grounded in five values:
- Confidentiality: No information will leak from the coaching conversation.
- Courage: She challenges thinking with kindness and compassion. She encourages clients to reflect on the progress they have made.
- Honesty: She is clear about what she can provide as a coach and what she cannot.
- Persistence: It is tough to find one's balance in our world and she partners with her clients through ups and downs.
- No judgment: She doesn't judge actions or behaviors. She helps her clients achieve their objective and move forward.
Her favorite quote: “You can’t stop the waves but you can learn how to surf” by Jon Kabat Zinn, American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the 'Stress Reduction Clinic' and the 'Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society' at the University of Massachusetts Medical School