How can Bureau Babette help you?

What clients and participants say

I recently completed a coaching journey with Babette. After working in HR for a long time, I was questioning whether I still wanted to do it, what my exact talents were, and what I could do with them moving forward. From the first moment, there was a connection with Babette. She is critical, asks sharp questions, and doesn't settle for a half-hearted answer. She holds up the mirror that you want to be held up. I fell into my own traps a few times during the process, and she noticed it before I did. I can highly recommend Babette!

HR adviser professional services,

As an entrepreneur, I'm always ‘on,’ making a good work-life balance and focus seem difficult. Babette quickly and efficiently helped me see how to deal with this, allowing me to find a better balance. Her approach is friendly, challenging, direct, and thorough, with a very surprising result that has immediately benefited me. During a short coaching period, Babette made me aware of my subconscious, and that's where the key lay.

HVAC Consultant Shipbuilding,

Babette has been a great help to me in a very short space of time. Thanks to her probing questions, her approach to her work and her enthusiasm, I’ve also developed a different perspective on my role in the business world. Babette has helped me realise what else I can achieve with my strengths. Thank you so much for your help.

Project Manager, Business Services,

Babette coached me very professionally. She is excellent at brainstorming and actively helps to identify the core issues and potential solutions. You can tell she's a really good listener. Furthermore, she doesn't shy away from reflecting or confronting when necessary, which gives you a push in the right direction. For me, this has resulted in a clear future career plan. This gives me immense peace and energy. I'm back on the right track.

Healthcare & Non-profit Management Consultant,

Thanks to the coaching trajectory with Babette, I can now take the next step in my career. I've thoroughly enjoyed mapping out my qualities, pitfalls, and ambitions with her. Babette is engaged, enthusiastic, and analytically strong. I've learned a lot about myself, both in my work and private life, and have been able to immediately translate that into concrete actions.

Journalist at Elsevier,

The coaching journey with Babette has made a huge contribution to my insight into myself, my strengths, and my desires. Babette is involved and goal-oriented. I am surprised by the added value of the coaching journey on both a personal and professional level. It helps me in utilising my traits and making the right choices.

Freelance business services provider,

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FOR PROFESSIONALS

Discovering new opportunities together to gain more self-direction.

I am both knowledgeable and experienced in coaching: HR professionals, procrastinators, people-pleasers, doubters, career switchers and perfectionists. We will go on a voyage of discovery so that you grow both professionally and personally.

FOR YOUR ORGANISATION

For organisations investing in collaboration and talent.

Facilitating learning processes is my profession. I offer training courses and (team) programmes focused on collaboration based on everyone's strengths. I am also a partner for organisations encountering HR(D) organisational issues.

What is your question?

Personal Leadership

We all need to lead where we are planted and shine where we now find ourselves (Robin Sharma)

You do everything you can, yet sometimes you realise it is not enough. You would like to experience more fulfilment in your relationships with clients, colleagues and others around you, without losing sight of yourself. It is time to strengthen your personal leadership.

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Career coaching

The best way to predict your future is to create it (Abraham Lincoln)

Feeling stuck in your career, unsure about your next step or ready for a change? Career coaching helps you gain clarity, build confidence and make choices that truly suit you.

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Leadership & Teams

Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability (Lencioni)

I help and train managers and teams who want to take the initiative themselves when it comes to teamwork and leadership.

As a team coach & trainer, I offer a safe and challenging context in which professionals can and want to learn from and with each other. Colleagues find their own answers to challenges and dilemmas in collaboration and leadership.

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Clients

ABOUT ME

Work that fits with who I am

For years, I knew what it was like to simply survive at work, and to slowly lose your spark when your work no longer reflects who you truly are. I allowed my own high standards and the expectations of others to guide me. I wanted to do right by my team, the organisation and my family.

By the time I reached forty, I was tired of simply getting by. At first, that realisation felt like failure. I knew I needed to pause and reset. Yet it was precisely by standing still that things began to shift. It gave me the space to reconnect with what genuinely worked, for me and for the people around me.

Does this sound familiar? My experience is far from unique. As an HR manager, I regularly saw individuals and teams become stuck; whether in their own patterns or in the way they worked with others. There is often so much untapped potential, yet it becomes buried beneath responsibilities, expectations and the pressure of everything that “needs” to be done.

That experience lies at the heart of my work. I want to bring a more human approach back into organisations. People are more than their roles or job titles. They are individuals, each with their own needs, doubts and strengths. This should be visible not only in words, but also in how we work and act. I help you regain control over your work and your life. You learn to notice signals such as fatigue, make room for doubt and choose what feels right for you.

I work with individuals, teams, and within the broader organisational context. My approach is personal, playful and experiential. Using elements from training acting and improvisational theatre, I set people in motion – both literally and in their development.

Are you curious to find out what my approach could do for you or your team?

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