Leadership at this level
was never meant to be
figured out alone.
Rigorous, confidential coaching for mission-driven leaders in education, public health, NGOs, and foundations. For capable people leading in complex, high-stakes environments around the world.
You are building something real in a place that demands everything.
You have the experience, the vision, and the team. What no one mentions is how isolating the role can be: the gap between who you need to be for your organization and the conversations you cannot have with anyone inside it.
“The person who was supposed to bat for me was ignoring me. I did not know who to speak to.”
That is not a personal failing. It is what leadership looks like when you have no peer at your level and nowhere to think out loud without consequences.
Coaching gives you that space. It is one place where you can be completely honest about what is working, what is not, and the kind of leader you want to be.
A thinking partner
with no stake in the outcome.
You are the expert in your own work. My job is not to advise you or tell you what to do. It is to help you think more clearly, test your assumptions, and reach decisions you can stand behind.
- Mentoring: an expert tells you what they would do
- Consulting: someone solves the problem for you
- Therapy: understanding why you are the way you are
- Training: acquiring skills and frameworks
- Someone with their own agenda for your decisions
- Focused attention on what matters most to you
- Sharp questions that help you think a problem through
- No judgment, no agenda, and full confidentiality
- You do the thinking. You own the conclusion.
- ICF-credentialed practice, with over 2,000 coaching hours in the last five years
Proven methods.
Cross-cultural experience.
Leadership looks different in every culture, sector, and organization. Trust does not respond to KPIs and Gantt charts alone. Coaching at Kintana Institute pairs rigorous, internationally recognized methodology with deep cross-cultural fluency, so the work fits the context you actually lead in.
What you say stays between us. For many leaders, this is the first place they can be fully honest about what is really going on.
The problem you bring is often not the one that matters most. Together we get underneath it, so you spend your energy on what will actually make a difference.
When something does not add up, I will say so, respectfully and directly. You get candid feedback from someone who is fully on your side.
Training adds skills you can forget. Coaching builds self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and confidence in your own judgment. Those changes stay with you long after the engagement ends.
CliftonStrengths to identify what you already do well. For those who choose it, the Positive Intelligence™ program to manage stress, quiet self-doubt, and recover faster from setbacks.
For leaders doing something
that matters and is hard.
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01Education leaders
School directors, regional and ministry education officials, and foundation program officers working on teaching, learning, and school leadership. You are carrying systemic change with limited resources, and you need space to think.
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02Public health and public sector leaders
You lead teams inside large institutions, under real pressure, with outcomes that affect people’s lives. Coaching helps you lead with steadiness and clarity rather than constant firefighting.
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03NGO, foundation, and social impact directors
You lead ethically, often with under-resourced teams, cross-cultural staff, and competing donor pressures. Coaching helps you lead from your values, not just your obligations.
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04Founders and leaders in transition
A new role, a new team, a new country, a new version of yourself. Transitions expose the gap between who you have been and who the work now requires you to become.
Three ways to work together.
Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute curiosity call, so we can see together whether this is the right fit.
Executive Coaching Session
- One-hour call with 45 minutes of focused coaching
- Bring a decision, a challenge, or a conversation you are preparing for
- No long-term commitment
- Ideal for a specific moment, or to experience coaching before committing to a year
Leadership Partnership
- 16 individual coaching sessions to use within 12 months
- 4 additional sessions to get to know each other, set your goals, and look back at what changed from start to finish
- Roughly every two weeks at the start, then every three to four weeks as the changes take hold
- CliftonStrengths assessment to identify your natural strengths, and a session to explore the results
- Email access between sessions
Leadership Partnership with Positive Intelligence™
- Everything in the Leadership Partnership
- The 7-week Positive Intelligence™ program at the start, to help you stay calm, focused, and clear under pressure
- Additional support to put the practices to work in your daily leadership
The Positive Intelligence™ program is offered in English.
Please note: I do not hold coaching sessions from December 14, 2026 to January 8, 2027, or from June 23 to July 16, 2027.
If leadership coaching is funded by the leader’s organization, I provide proforma invoices, tax details, and documentation so your procurement process is straightforward. Coaching is available in English and French.
I am an executive coach, credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), based in Madagascar with over 2,000 coaching hours in the last five years. I have coached leaders in Ministries of Health across West and East Africa for the Gates Foundation LGMS program through Strathmore, World Food Programme managers through Factor10 Coaching, and many others through WorkBravely. My clients have also included leaders at Bloomberg and Autodesk.
I am also the founder and director of Sekoly Kintana, a trilingual Montessori school in Fort-Dauphin. That means I do not just coach leaders. I am one. I know what it means to hold a vision, build a team from scratch, navigate institutional complexity across cultures, and keep going when the structural support is thin.
My approach draws on internationally recognized coaching standards, positive psychology, and a deep understanding of what it takes to lead across cultures. I designed and led a leadership camp for Tekfutura, facilitated an emotional intelligence and social-emotional learning workshop for school principals with Projet Jeune Leader, and have coached members of PJL’s leadership team individually.
You cannot lead people with KPIs and a Gantt chart alone. You prepare the ground and wait for trust to germinate. That is also what coaching is.
A conversation costs nothing.
Not having one might.
Book a 30-minute curiosity call. No pitch, no pressure. Just two people thinking together about whether this is the right fit.
Book a curiosity callDrop-in sessions from $250 · Year-long partnerships from $6,000