Executive Counselor for Leaders with Responsibility, Ambition, and Reflective Capacity
As an executive counselor, I work with leaders navigating complex responsibilities, bridging personal development with strategic realities, and creating the space for clarity, alignment, and meaningful action.
summary: I support leaders who carry weighty responsibilities – offering a discerning, confidential space to reflect, realign, and act with clarity in service of their role, their development, and their impact.
Executive Counselor for Leaders with Responsibility, Ambition, and Reflective Capacity
Leadership is not merely a role – it is a continuous process of alignment: between inner and outer worlds, between person and mandate, between conviction and assignment.
I work with individuals who carry responsibility in complex contexts – board members, executives, senior professionals, and supervisory directors. People who seek space for reflection, meaning, and forward movement. My work bridges personal and professional growth with the strategic and operational realities of leadership. This means engaging with questions of positioning, influence, loyalty, meaning, strategic action, and personal alignment – while also serving as a thought partner in organizational and governance dilemmas around direction, culture, team dynamics, decision-making, and transformation.
I work as a counselor – not simply to address behaviour or effectiveness, but to explore essential and existential questions. This includes identity, recurring patterns, and what needs to be acknowledged – especially in leadership roles where vulnerability often finds little room. My style is engaged and discerning: not therapeutic, yet grounded in psychodynamic insight; not detached, yet professionally anchored. Our conversations are deepening and purposeful, offering a space in which leaders can reorient themselves in service of their role, their development, and their impact.
I work with senior professionals, supervisory board members, executive leaders, and those at key transition points. I also support high potentials preparing for their next step in leadership or strategic influence – always in confidence, with discretion, rhythm, and clarity.
Who is this work for?
It is for leaders who understand that growth begins with awareness. For professionals who want to act from integrity and inner strength. And for those willing to explore their role within the larger whole they serve.
— Rene de Baaij
