Transformational Coach for Ambitious Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Leaders

You understand the pattern. But you are still living it.

Transformational coaching for ambitious professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders who are ready to move beyond recurring patterns, reconnect with what is true and create change they can actually live.

Online coaching in English and French.

Newfield Certified Coach · English and French · Online worldwide · International experience across six countries

Where this begins

When being capable is no longer enough

You may know how to work hard, adapt quickly and make things happen.

You may also find yourself repeating emotional, relational or professional patterns that insight alone has not changed.

Perhaps you are at a turning point. The person you have learned to be is still functioning, but no longer feels entirely true.

You do not necessarily need more advice. You may need the space to see what is actually shaping you, experience a different internal position and begin acting from it.

That is the work we do together.

Recognition

You may be here because…

You are facing a transition and no longer know what you genuinely want.
You understand a pattern intellectually but still repeat it.
You overthink decisions or react more strongly than you would like.
You find it easier to identify goals than to access your feelings.
You adapt so effectively to expectations that you lose sight of yourself.
You appear confident and capable while privately feeling uncertain or disconnected.
You struggle to express a truth, set a boundary or have a necessary conversation.
You have achieved what you were working toward, but it has not brought the freedom you expected.
You are tired of relying on pressure, performance or recognition to keep moving.
You sense that your current way of succeeding is no longer sustainable.

You do not need to identify with every point. What matters is that something in your current way of functioning is no longer working, and you are prepared to examine it honestly.

What the work supports

From insight to lived change

My work is not limited to understanding why you behave in a certain way.

We explore what created and maintains the pattern, how it is experienced in your body and emotions, and what becomes possible when you relate to it differently.

Clients often come to this work wanting to:

The outcome is not a perfected version of you. It is greater freedom in how you respond, decide, communicate and move forward.

How we work

Four movements

Every person and situation is different. I do not impose the same technique on every client. My approach brings together four movements.

01

See what is shaping you

We identify the beliefs, emotional reactions, language, roles and protective strategies operating beneath the current situation — how you interpret events, what you believe is expected of you, and the automatic responses you've developed over time.

02

Work beyond the intellect

Understanding a pattern does not automatically change it. We may work with embodied awareness, emotional expression, visualization, movement or spoken practices — experiencing a new response rather than merely analysing one.

03

Separate what is yours

We explore the expectations, family roles, identities and responsibilities you may have learned to carry — distinguishing your present truth and agency from patterns formed in another context.

04

Live the change

We translate what emerges into decisions, conversations, boundaries, experiments and practical action. Change becomes meaningful when it can be lived outside the coaching session.

Ways to work together

Two offers

Ongoing process

Transformational Coaching

A structured coaching process for broader change over time. We explore your goals, motivations, emotional patterns, internal conflicts and current obstacles. You develop new perspectives and responses, then put them into practice in your daily life.

This work may support you through:

  • career and identity transitions
  • recurring emotional or relational patterns
  • leadership and communication challenges
  • self-confidence and self-expression
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Three-session process

Emotional Release and Integration Intensive

A focused three-session process centred on a specific family relationship or emotional pattern that continues to affect you.

Through preparation, an imagined dialogue, spoken emotional expression and symbolic separation, you work with what has remained unsaid or unresolved and establish a clearer internal boundary.

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A particular lens

For people who have learned to achieve before learning how to be

My work is particularly informed by the psychology of the Achiever, including the patterns described in Enneagram Type Three.

Achievers often become highly skilled at reading expectations, adapting, performing and moving toward results. These qualities can create meaningful success.

They can also make it difficult to know:

You do not need to know your Enneagram type to work with me. The Enneagram is a lens, not a label or requirement.

"You are more than what you achieve, produce or prove."

What this asks of you

This work asks something of you

Coaching is collaborative. I will bring attention, challenge, compassion, structure and different ways of working. You will need to bring honesty, participation and a willingness to experiment.

Likely to suit you when

  • you are willing to look at your own role in what is happening
  • you want more than advice, reassurance or temporary motivation
  • you are open to working with emotions as well as ideas
  • you are prepared to try unfamiliar practices
  • you accept that meaningful change requires action between sessions
  • you want support without handing your decisions to someone else

May not be the right fit when

  • you mainly want confirmation that your current interpretation is correct
  • you expect someone else to decide what you should do
  • you want a quick technique requiring no continued practice
  • you are looking for prescriptive consulting rather than coaching
  • you currently need clinical mental-health treatment or crisis support
What clients have experienced

In their words

"Margot has a rare ability to combine emotional depth with practical guidance. Through our work, I became clearer about my direction, my values and what I wanted to create for myself."

Cecilia — Fund Manager, Qatar

"I felt trapped in a vicious circle that I understood but could not avoid. Knowing something and actually saying it are two different things. There is a sense of acceptance and freedom in saying it out loud."

Grace — Finance Consultant, Mauritius

"In eight sessions, I developed a deeper understanding of the root causes and triggers behind my overthinking and overreacting. The process gave me tools to navigate my emotions and brought me closer to my authentic self."

Herland — Operations Manager, South Africa
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A coach who understands both inner work and practical reality

About Margot

I am a Newfield Certified Coach trained in ontological coaching.

My approach is also informed by Neuro-Semantics and NLP, the Enneagram, leadership development, somatic practice and more than 500 hours of Vipassana meditation.

Alongside coaching, I work in international digital health marketing and content strategy. I hold an MBA and have lived and worked in six countries.

This combination allows me to work with both sides of change: the emotional and identity-level experience beneath the issue, and the practical decisions, relationships and responsibilities surrounding it.

About Margot

You do not have to know exactly what needs to change before beginning.

You do need to know that continuing in the same way is no longer enough. An introductory conversation allows us to discuss what is happening, what you are looking for and whether my approach is appropriate for you.

Online in English and French. In-person sessions may be available in Mauritius.