Helen de Haan

Facilitator for Resilience, Self-Leadership and Mindfulness | Certified Professional Coach for Value-Based Leadership

Helen de Haan is from the Netherlands but has spent most of her career in Switzerland working as an international sports marketing executive in professional soccer and cycling. Due to her background in sports business, combined with over 10 years of personal development with a focus on positive psychology and transactional analysis, her coaching style comes with a strong multidisciplinary approach and features best practices that are also widely used in the professional sports world.

Certifications / diplomas

  • MBA in Sport Business Management (IE Business School)
  • Master Certified Professional & Corporate Coach (Isora Solutions, Madrid)
  • Federal Certificate for Trainers in Continuing Education (SVEB 1)
  • Resilience Certification (Leadership Choices GmbH)
  • NLP Master Practitioner Diploma (Academie Wending, Rotterdam).
  • MBSR Practitioner Training (Mindful Brain, Zurich).
  • Corporate Mindfulness Facilitator Training (Potential Project, Denmark).
  • Emotional Balance Facilitator Certificate (with Dr. Alan Wallace, Santa Monica Institute of Consciousness).
  • Transactional Analysis Counselor-in-Training, Advanced Module 2 (École de l’Analyse Transactionelle, ASAT-SR).
  • Inner Child Therapist Diploma (École de l’Enfant Intérieur, Annecy, France).
  • FiRE-Resilienz Certification (Leadership Choices)

Focus of work:

  • Personal resilience
  • Goal-oriented, values-based leadership

  • Self-leadership: emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and autonomy
  • Applying mindfulness at work

In the world of sports, top athletes don’t just “do” their sport, they live it. Like them, today’s leaders must develop a unique sense of purpose and cultivate their potential day by day, moment by moment. In this volatile and fast-paced world, resilience is a skill that can make the difference of a lifetime. I have deep respect and consider it a great privilege to accompany our clients on their resilience journey.

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