Master Certified Coach (ICF)
Nadja Talpaert
Passion
Nadja is a warm as well as down-to-earth and goal-oriented coach, who seamlessly weaves confrontation and affirmation together. Her focused questioning and conscious confrontation style contribute to accelerated awareness and self-development in the coachee.
With the specific development objective always in mind, she allows them to conduct guided reflection and explore other perspectives or courses of action. Nadja’s own personal career path both in business and HR, allows her to quickly empathize with very diverse business environments and issues. As an executive coach, she works on very diverse aspects of leadership and self-management. Themes that come up recurrently include: impact and influence, dosage in presence, setting boundaries and all aspects of clear and powerful communication. When appropriate, she also uses a horse as a mirror for the coachee’s behavior, actions and inner attitude. Like no other, horses directly, honestly and openly reflect the impact of your actions, behaviors and attitudes on others, without judging them.
Using targeted interventions, she lets the coachee, together with her horse Gin, experience what works and how things can be done differently. And above all, what it can yield for the individual, the employees, the manager and other stakeholders in professional or personal life if you lead from your own powerful core, your authentic self.
We dug into the cause of underlying feelings, we learned from dealing with difficult situations
and how to recognize and embrace my natural behavior in stressful circumstances and highlight it as a strength...
Nadja is sincere, inspiring and has a natural gift for breaking behavioral patterns.
In short, she’s an amazing coach!
Ik zou het al mijn bevriende leiders, die openstaan voor mooie inzichten en groei in hun leiderschap, aanraden.
Men zegt altijd dat niet-verbale communicatie veel belangrijker is dan woorden. Met paardencoaching VOEL je dit echt en hiermee leren werken zorgt voor een uniek leerproces.
Dank je, Nadja om je passie voor paarden en leiderschapscoaching te combineren in voor mij een onvergetelijke unieke ervaring en inzicht!
Nadja's insightful coaching brought clarity to my decision-making process and significantly influenced my leadership style.
Her approach is a perfect blend of empathy and strategic thinking. Nadja has a unique ability to ask probing questions that not only challenged my assumptions but also encouraged self-reflection. Through our sessions, she helped me identify and leverage my strengths, ultimately refining my leadership style. Nadja's guidance extended beyond immediate problem-solving; it had a lasting impact on the choices I made in my career. Her emphasis on fostering authentic leadership has been instrumental in shaping my interactions with colleagues and team members. The tools and strategies she provided continue to serve as invaluable resources in navigating complex professional scenarios.
I highly recommend Nadja to anyone seeking a transformative coaching experience. Her expertise and personable approach make her an exceptional executive coach who truly understands the dynamics of leadership in today's fast-paced business environment.
Het eerste contact met Nadja was warm en open, een noodzaak voor een coaching van een aantal maanden. Gaandeweg voelde ze aan wat nodig was om mijn persoonlijke groei te versterken. Ze gaf me een breder zicht op mezelf en door die te linken met mijn professionele omgeving kwamen we dichter bij wat nodig is om een pak blokkades in leiderschap te verlagen of vaarwel te zeggen. Maar er is meer… de technieken die ze toepaste waren enerzijds vertrouwd en toch vaak erg vernieuwend.
De impact van de sessies met paarden is iets wat je niet vooraf kan bedenken - ze tonen je keer op keer hoe je zelf wordt beoordeeld door anderen (een dier in dit geval) en hoe vooral vertrouwen, respect en daadkracht zorgen voor een hechte (team)band.
Nadja is oprecht betrokken bij het traject dat ik afleg in mijn loopbaan en leven. Ook naast het traject is ze begaan met het aangaan van de uitdagingen op mijn pad. Met raad en een luisterend oor brengt ze je, net als haar paarden, weer op gang als je even stilstaat en remt ze af wanneer het te hard gaat.
Een unieke aanpak en een unieke vrouw in het landschap van executive coachings.
Dankzij Nadja's rijke ervaring en enorme multidisciplinaire kennis heeft zij verschillende kapstokken aangereikt
waardoor de sturing, de onderlinge open communicatie, taken, rollen, afspraken en verantwoordelijkheden
nu duidelijker, efficiënter en naar een hoger niveau zijn getild.
Een warme en oprechte dank.
Specialities
Nadja combines a broad experience in leadership and consulting with over twenty years of experience in individual leadership coaching. Common thread through it all is her love for humans and animals/horses.
Executive coaching
Notice the Difference! coaches executives and c-level managers in their growth process and is committed to authentic, sustainable, effortless and effective leadership. Executives choose coaching with Notice the Difference! because they receive an honest and respectful sounding board. We take a critical but loving look at yourself as a professional and as a person, take stock of your personal qualities and blockages and together map out a growth path to expand your consciousness by reaching back to your own essence.
(Systemic) Team coaching
Notice the Difference! coaches teams towards greater connection, trust and effective collaboration. From a preliminary intake with the leader of the team and possibly other additional stakeholders, we look at the dynamics of the team, both above and below the waterline, and in co-creation work out an appropriate program in relation to the intended goal.
The core of systemic coaching lies in the fact that we look at the bigger picture, as well as the coherence of the parts of the system. Equine interventions are also systemic by definition.
Intervision Coaching
Notice the Difference! coaches groups and teams in a safe framework to learn on-the-job from and with each other. We bring small groups together and use the intervision methodology to work through actual, and preferably hot, cases in which employees are stuck. In this way, we invite participants to grow in autonomy and self-management. We also often use intervision coaching to anchor and deepen what has been learned after training or as part of various learning processes.
Intervision coaching is the tool of choice to strengthen and support ‘enabling leadership’ within your organization.
Horse Assisted coaching
Notice the Difference! together with its partner Kivik challenges individuals and teams to test their leadership or collaboration by leading a horse or herd. You get instant feedback on what works and what doesn’t, can experiment with alternative behaviors without judgment, and immediately test where that gets you and what it requires of you. In the past, many a world leader had his horse lead him; Alexander the Great, Buddha, Georges Washington, Ronald Reagan, … what about you?
Stress-en burn-out coaching
Notice the Difference! assists people in finding a healthy balance between load and load. We like to do that preventively to avoid co-workers going into stress or when they return to work after a leave of absence and want to find a new balance for themselves.
In periods of real burnout, we like to refer for specific medical and psychological guidance to our partner Kivik, where Dr. Annemieken Van Reepingen (MD) has developed a specialization.
Ze tonen je keer op keer hoe je zelf wordt beoordeeld door anderen
en hoe vooral vertrouwen, respect en daadkracht zorgen voor een hechte (team)band.
Nadja is oprecht betrokken bij het traject dat ik afleg in mijn loopbaan en leven.
Met raad en een luisterend oor brengt ze je, net als haar paarden,
weer op gang als je even stilstaat en remt ze af wanneer het te hard gaat.
Een unieke aanpak en een unieke vrouw in het landschap van executive coachings.
and she is offering a safe environment to let people grow, discover themselves
and learn to understand their impact.
In a pragmatic way she makes the difference together with the coachee.
It was a pleasure seeing people growing thanks to her approach.
Ik kreeg hierdoor het gevoel dat onze inbreng ertoe deed. Ik kon nadenken, analyseren en mijn zinnen vormen in de ruimtes die je openliet.
Het gaf ons ook de kans om aan te kaarten wat je dacht, voelde en wat de next steps in onze organisatie en naar onszelf persoonlijk moeten zijn.
De zaken die jij aanbracht waren concreet to the point.
Komt een paard...
Together with Dr. Annemieken Van Reepingen (MD), Nadja Talpaert wrote the book ‘Komt een paard in de boardroom – wat paarden kunnen vertellen over leiderschap’, published by Lannoo Campus in 2020 and now already in its 3rd printing. In this book, horses share their extremely powerful formula for flourishing and growing as leaders, both in your personal and professional life. Using anecdotal examples of leaders from the business and nonprofit sectors, the horses tell how they experience leadership in people.
Floreren en groeien
Volgers uit vrije wil
Horses are experts in leadership. They have survived on our planet for millions of years longer than we humans have, successfully, and in team. Leadership for them creates followers by choice. Discover the formula! And experience how horses can empower your leadership in the boardroom.
Discover what you too can learn from horses!
Are you curious about what horses can tell you about your leadership? We would like to invite you to come and experience exactly that. In this short workshop, you will work with a horse in a leadership exercise and discover, together with some other participants, where you can strengthen your leadership.
Leader of your own life, leader of a team or leader within your organization?
How small or how big does not matter in the expectations placed on you and the skills you can develop to be stronger in this. In this 1-day workshop you will put your finger on your leadership pulse and in a limited group and with the help of our horses you can personally experiment how things can be done differently and more efficiently. One day workshop including workbook.
Connection & Environment
In this first module, we will work with the first 2 elements of our Catalyst Leadership C.O.D.E.
With our Discover Your B.E.S.T.E. Self System, you will experience how to stay in your power, fully connected to who you are, and how to lead others from that powerful position.
In our C.L.E.A.N. Communication System we give you efficient methods to keep your finger on the pulse of your team and organization, but also of what is still going on around them. It will allow you to continue to take care of yourself more and better and thus feel happier day in and day out.
Direction & Engagement.
In this second module we will work on the following 2 elements of our Catalyst Leadership C.O.D.E.
In ‘Your Vision Quest’ we will search for your clear vision to continue to lead your life, team and organization from there instead of being lived. You will again be able to set the right priorities, make focused and efficient decisions while leaving more time for yourself.
In ‘The Engaged Movement Formula’ you will discover how you can get and keep yourself and your employees moving in an inspiring way, flexibly moving with what comes.
Would you like to be individually and personally guided in your growth trajectory towards stronger and more efficient leadership? We will gladly work out a proposal tailored to your needs based on a personal intake. Where and when these sessions take place, we determine in consultation and in function of your agenda.
Thanks to the horses, you will learn to lead in a powerful way, which will lead to enthusiastic and motivated team members in your organization.
- You will develop your personal and authentic leadership through the interaction with the horses and the interpretation by fellow participants and trainers.
- You will discover what is already working in your leadership style and where it is faltering, using the mirror that the horses offer you.
- You will work individually on your leadership challenges so that your impact as a leader grows.
You learn to balance your energy optimally so that you come to sustainable leadership.