I’m Christian Gijsbertsen
Personal Life & Leadership Development Coach
Life gives you choices.
Here’s #1 right now:
Leadership Coaching
The more clear-eyed we are about our intended destination, the more intuitive, decisive and effective we become in terms of direction setting. The less we understand our own motivations, the more we are at risk of veering off and ending up in places we don’t want to be. In addition to offering a coaching partnership to help you navigate the complexities of leadership in today’s fast-paced world, I’ve developed the BlueOrange Framework™️ for leadership development. It provides insights into principles that guide sustainable development in nature, and practical tools and techniques to aid decision making.
Personal Life Coaching
Two kinds of questions will trip you up in life.
The first kind is the question not asked, the help not sought, the problem of knowing too little.
The second is the more perplexing kind: problems that come from knowing too much.
Problems, or challenges if you prefer, are a deep ingredient of life. If we don’t get real about what really matters, we tend to get stuck on stuff that doesn’t matter.
It’s my job to help you figure out what really matters to you, amidst the endless distractions that seek your attention.
Goal Setting
Ever noticed how reaching a goal isn’t just about what you want, but about what problems you want?
Relationship Coaching
Do you know that becoming better at relationships, will make you better at everything?
Stress Management
How would you like to reduce stress by committing to what really matters?
Career Advice
The story of your life can spell almost anything. Feel like yours is spelling ‘ditto’?
What Is Life Coaching?
As defined in our contract, coaching is an alliance between me and you, in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize personal and professional potential. It is designed to facilitate the creation and/or development of personal or professional goals, and to develop and carry out a strategy for achieving those goals. I should also underline here, that coaching is not the same as therapy, and does not substitute for therapy if needed. Life, I believe, consists of love and problems. As a coach therefore, I care. I do not cure. The general purpose of my coaching is for you to become a better leader through a series of conversations during which I will ask probing questions to challenge your thinking, to help you discover new perspectives that will have a lasting positive impact in your life. In addition to these conversations, during which we may touch upon any aspect of your life, I will provide you with useful tools, materials, and/or exercises that will help you move forward on your goals. Just talk then? It’s that simple? Well, basically yes. The quickest and surest way to changing your situation, is to change your thinking. It is that simple, but I know from experience on both sides of this equation that it is also a hard thing to do, to challenge the nature of your thinking. Because your nature includes who you think you are.
Over many years, I have developed the BeSpoke™️ Coaching Method, tailored exclusively to you. You decide what area of your life we will Zoom in on, because you hold the key to your own growth. You’re driving. I’m just an inquisitive passenger. But I will sometimes challenge you to consider yourself to be the spoke rather than the axis of your own life. Life is full of paradoxes. Although life coaching is all about your life, our lives are never entirely your own. Leadership is always relational, oriented outward, involving others.
Of course, help can come from many different places, and often does, thankfully. Parents, partners, friends, colleagues, teachers, you name it, will cover most of what help we need. But sometimes those closest to us are not in the best position to help us. I’m unbiased, professionally trained through years of experience, and I have no agenda, no stake in your life or work beyond seeing you reach your goals. If that sounds good to you, then your next step could be as simple as scheduling a free discovery call. You have nothing to lose, and it might turn out to be just the ticket.
Who Is Coaching For?
My clients are those people who choose to take charge of their life, warts and all. It is a bold, adventurous, often downright heroic choice, that an absolutely overwhelming majority of life coaching clients look back on with pride and gratitude. You are not a statistic however, and I couldn’t tell you if I am the coach for you, not knowing anything about you. But that’s what free discovery calls are for.
Coaching is about the wonder of human potential. Specifically in my view, our unique potential to rise above our immediate circumstances. This more than anything, is what sets us apart from an ape. It is our inner life, offering both freedom and insecurity. You can be down in the gutter, or sitting on top of the world, and benefit equally from working with a life coach. In all honesty, life always comes at at cost. It is always a struggle in some way or another. Any leader will tell you that if you want to go places, you’re going to need help. No one gets anywhere by themselves, and all that getting nowhere is costing you way more in time, money, and frustration, than paying a coach would. Now, if you’re into numbers, the statistics do bear this out. Various studies have reliably shown average ROI on personal and executive leadership coaching of over 500%-700%, with 75% of clients saying that the value is “considerably greater” or “far greater” than the money and time invested, according to the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring.
Life is an event though, not an equation. It can only be understood in dramatic terms. And if you can’t really see the stage, or if you don’t like the view, better seats are available. Simply schedule a free discovery call by clicking on one of the buttons around here, and start telling me your story.
What is The Process Like?
Don’t worry about the process. I’ve already streamlined everything surrounding our sessions. Once you decide to take the first step, everything else will just fall into place. You will be welcomed into a comfortable coaching cocoon! Here’s what you can expect to happen.
1. Clicking any button on this website will send you over to a landing/information page. Unless you have selected a specific coaching package, you will arrive on the free intake booking page.
The landing page will tell you everything you need to know about the package you have selected. You can simply schedule your appointment right from this page.
2. Clicking to 'Buy' will first invite you to schedule an appointment.
Your appointment won’t be final until after payment. If you’re buying a multi-session package, you can either schedule all your appointments upfront in our calendar at this time, or log in later to do so. Our calendar will adjust to your time zone. You will receive email confirmation for each appointment, with a calendar invite, as well as a designated Zoom link for each call. So you don’t need to write anything down!
Your personal coaching cocoon will be your private dashboard, where all information regarding your appointments and your progress is collected and organised for you. Scheduling, payments, contracts, notes and survey questions, everything is right there in one place.
3. You will then be prompted to review and digitally countersign the coaching contract for your purchase.
Each coaching session – as well as the free intake – follows the signing of a coaching contract, which explains the nature of the coaching relationship in detail, as well as our compliance with the ICF ethics standard, and other aspects.
4. Payment through credit card or Stripe will finalise your scheduled appointment.
All coaching sessions are paid upfront. I like to get the money out of the way of my work, and I find that it helps some of my clients commit to their goals. Depending on the package you’re buying, it may be possible to pay in installments. You will be able to see the status of your payments in your dashboard.
Subscriptions are automatically charged on a monthly basis, until you cancel.
5. You will be asked to fill out a digital survey in preparation for your first call, and then we'll hit the ground running.
In order to help you, I will need to know a lot about you. The intake survey for a discovery call is really very basic and quick, but for a first coaching session, there’s a bit more preparation involved. Filling out the digital survey does a couple of things. It helps you organise your thoughts about what you want our sessions to focus on. It will also give me some idea of who you are before we meet, so that we can do a bit more than just drink coffee and chat. In short, it saves time and money, and it provides structure and orientation.
You will receive emails with all the information you need, including – in broad strokes – what we’ll be talking about, so that there’s no stress and no surprises.
And you can always log back into your personal dashboard where you have all information at your fingertips.
Coaching Packages
3 Session Coaching Package
Making changes in your life isn’t easy. But you can ease into it. See what you can learn in just three sessions.
€750
6 Session Standard Coaching Package
If life was simple, there would just be a manual. Since there isn’t, it will always take considerable time and effort to make significant changes in your life. A series of six conversations over a period of two to six months ought to get you moving in the right direction.
€1350
Monthly 1:1 Subscription
If you can appreciate the difference between a one-night-stand and a marriage, you will understand that taking the long term perspective on working with me is going to save you money, save you time, and allow you to get the most out of our alliance. It’s called life coaching for a reason.
€210/month
About Me
Entrepreneur and optimist. Active in ship management and passionate about personal and organizational learning and development. For billions around the world today, it is hard to see the future. There has never been a better moment to invest in our own capacity to lead, as professionals, as parents, as citizens, as human beings on this planet. Start growing today!
Testimonials
“Chris has a passion and a drive that becomes infectious. Moving first and trusting that the inspiration will come.”
“I’m still going to keep calling you Dorian.”
“We contacted Chris when our team hit a wall. One in a million.”
“Jumped the bowl. Saw the water. The framework is so simple, with the blue and orange directions of attention. It’s quickly become part of the language of our strategy design.”
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