Reasonance

Thrive at work

Executive coaching and mentoring that help leaders flourish in their organisational system

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WHY REASONANCE?

We spend most of our life working. Everyone deserves to thrive at work. Here are the most common obstacles leaders have to navigate in order to flourish:

As an individual leader

  • Difficult, nuanced and important decisions need to be made urgently but you can’t quite get to decide which way to go and you feel you are losing time
    -> Frictions with colleagues prevent you from collaborating effectively and geting the results you want
    -> You feel isolated. There is no one you can really confide to.
  • Days of immense hope and sense of achievement are often followed by darker days of doubt and lack of self-confidence
  • Difficult, nuanced and important decisions need to be made urgently but you can’t quite get to decide which way to go and you feel you are losing time
  • You have succeeded so far thanks to your natural strengths but you sense that you need to broaden your leadership style to accommodate further growth and complexity

As a leader managing teams

  • Your team find it more difficult to navigate the increasingly complex organisation and get stuff done in that environment
  • It feels like your team is just a group of individuals fighting their corner. The level of collaboration is sub-optimal.
  • Your team are in a pivotal phase of their career when they need to move from experts to enablers, from individual contributors to leaders, from doers to influencers
  • Your team struggle to project themselves into the organisation and establish a credible career path there
  • Your team lack the self- confidence and assertiveness to cut through and apply their strengths in a productive way in the organisation

Solutions

How can I help?

I have a rather unusual combination of extensive leadership experience and rigorous coaching credentials, all applied in the context of fast-growing digital businesses. This has equipped me with the context and tools to support my clients achieve their objectives.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Based on an initial conversation, I will devise a programme targeted at your specific needs. This could involve:

  • An accelerated coaching booster programme of a few sessions that focuses on the most immediate development opportunities
  • A more comprehensive and extended programme of support over 6 months that includes an initial professional personality assessment and regular interactions to shift behaviours and mindsets that are harder to change quickly
  • An on-going support with regular sessions that address key issues as they arise. This can include advisory input into strategic or operational issues or coaching support on team and individuals.
  • I can also intervene as a mediator to rebuild a relationship that has suffered at work

HOW DO I COACH AND MENTOR?

  • I am both supportive and challenging. I will listen with undivided attention and not judge, but I will also point out the bullshit.
  • I can coach by listening and asking powerful questions, but I can also mentor by sharing perspective and advice based on personal experience.
  • After a few coaching sessions, past clients have said that they feel more self-confident, they understand how to best position themselves in their organisational systems, have improved the quality of their collaboration with important stakeholders and have adopted new mindsets and behaviours that help them thrive further at work.

About me

Extensive leadership experience with rigorous coaching credentials

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François Coumau

Director and Founder

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Extensive leadership experience

I have 25 years of leadership experience in international growth businesses, including 10 years at Mars, 9 years at eBay and 3 years at a PE-backed media business for which I facilitated a successful exit.
I have therefore ample experience of a variety of leadership experiences in complex and fast moving environments. I have accumulated over the years plenty of mental models and frameworks that have helped me navigate complexity.

Rigorous coaching credentials

Since 2018, I have built a coaching practice with CEOs/Founders of early-stage businesses and senior executives of fast-growing scale ups and corporates.
I am certified with the International Coaching Federation (Associate Certified Coach). I have trained with the highly reputable Academy of Executive Coaching (Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching, 2019). I am qualified to run personality assessments with both Hogan and Praditus (both self-assessment and 360 feedback).
I am also a co-founder of Step Change,a leadership development practice that drives accelerated positive change to teams.

Education and Interests

I have graduated from HEC Paris (Master in Management, 1994), London Business School (Executive MBA, 2003) and Birkbeck College, London University (Masters in Organisational Psychology, 2022).

I have written about the impact of remote working on leadership in start-ups and my current research focuses on cross-team collaboration.

Testimonials

Why choose us?

My structured sessions with Francois helped me to grow more self-assured. I learned to navigate my organisation more effectively and he helped me to work as a peer with my new leadership team, whilst supporting me to embrace new ways of thinking and acting that helped me to develop as a people leader. In addition to coaching, Francois is an excellent sounding board drawing on his years of experience in leadership himself

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