“Getting out of my comfort zone was not easy but Valentine managed to ask the right questions to get me there. Thank you for that”

— Susana Patino Cubiero

"Working with coach Valentine is a fulfilling experience and quite a journey for self-exploration. She is professional, detail oriented, caring and intuitive. While making sure our conversation is productive, she honors flexibility and space, which is important and greatly appreciated! Her background of education and personal life as expat definitely helped us to connect and resonate with each other. She is able to actively listen, understand and engage with me, even challenge me when needed! The coaching sessions are energetic, inspiring and relaxing at the same time, and I always got something to ponder on after the sessions.

Thanks to Valentine, I gained empowering personal and professional growth among lots of reflections and thinking processes. I would highly recommend her!”

— Xiao-yu Cheng, Leadership and Intercultural Transitions Coach and Business Consultant

“I feel so good after our sessions. I have so much more clarity and vision of where I want to be/go and exactly how to get there.”

— Corinne Karjama, Marketing Specialist

“What I really appreciate is that you have a very conversational style, and you ask great questions that get me to move from specific managerial concerns to the more abstract things that I said were important to me as a person. After we talk, I feel more prepared to approach staff and project management authentically, which is to say, without sacrificing my genuine belief that there should be encouragement, enrichment, and joy in the workplace. I find it easier to understand the part I can play in bringing my organization to its best, most helpful iteration, while recognizing the space I can make for consensus and individual empowerment. It's a more refreshing and humbling method than I was expecting, and I appreciate how little it's about "me" as a "Leader"--fitting some abstract mold of a testosterone-fueled, assertive Person of Business that dictates a vision and expects everyone to fall in line. I think the process you're using is a much better articulation of how to cultivate respect, buy-in, and creativity.”

— Matt Siemer, Executive Director