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Personal narrative coaching

Narrative coaching for leaders: A one-on-one session to clarify who you are and where youre going.

Narrative coaching for leaders: A one-on-one session to clarify who you are and where youre going.

Most leaders carry a story they’ve never fully examined.

Narrative Coaching is a calm, reflective one-on-one session that helps you understand who you are as a leader, what drives you, and how to express your story with clarity and confidence.

This is not therapy.

It’s not performance coaching.

It’s identity work that strengthens your leadership.

Through a structured, human conversation, you’ll uncover the patterns, values, and beliefs shaping your decisions — and learn how to tell the story that actually reflects the leader you want to be.

Most leaders carry a story they’ve never fully examined.

Narrative Coaching is a calm, reflective one-on-one session that helps you understand who you are as a leader, what drives you, and how to express your story with clarity and confidence.

This is not therapy.

It’s not performance coaching.

It’s identity work that strengthens your leadership.

Through a structured, human conversation, you’ll uncover the patterns, values, and beliefs shaping your decisions — and learn how to tell the story that actually reflects the leader you want to be.

What Is Individual narrative coaching?

What Is Individual narrative coaching?

Narrative coaching is a personal reflection practice designed to help leaders:

Narrative coaching is a personal reflection practice designed to help leaders:

See their life and career through a coherent narrative

Reconnect with their deeper motivations

Understand their values and leadership identity

Make clearer decisions rooted in purpose, not pressure

Strengthen communication through self-understanding

See their life and career through a coherent narrative

Reconnect with their deeper motivations

Understand their values and leadership identity

Make clearer decisions rooted in purpose, not pressure

Strengthen communication through self-understanding

It’s based on a decade-long yearly reflection method published in Just Thoughts, combined with leadership development principles and storytelling frameworks used with founders across Europe. When you understand your story, you understand your direction.

What we explore in the one-on-one narrative coaching session

What we explore in the one-on-one narrative coaching session

Your personal story map

You’ll walk through the core questions that reveal the shape of your identity:

  • What I love

  • What I’m good at

  • What I can get paid for

  • What the world needs

This creates your Ikigai-inspired narrative foundation.

You’ll walk through the core questions that reveal the shape of your identity:

  • What I love

  • What I’m good at

  • What I can get paid for

  • What the world needs

This creates your Ikigai-inspired narrative foundation.

The Leadership Story

Together, we clarify:

  • Who you are

  • What shaped you

  • What you stand for

  • How you lead

  • The meaning behind your work

  • The story you want to step into

This becomes a guiding compass for decisions and communication.

Patterns, Beliefs & Turning Points

We identify the moments, mentors, and lessons that shaped how you:

  • Respond to pressure

  • Approach conflict

  • Communicate vision

  • Build relationships

  • Make decisions

Leaders often discover hidden assumptions that drive their choices.

Crafting Your Narrative Statement

You leave the session with:

  • A clear narrative sentence

    (“I am…”)

  • A personal purpose line

  • Your leadership values

  • Your defining story in one page

These become tools you can use in recruitment, communication, strategy, and self-reflection.

Who this coaching is for

Who this coaching is for

This session is ideal for

This session is ideal for

Founders

People in life or career transition

Creatives, consultants, storytellers

CEOs and startup leaders

Heads of product or marketing

Anyone seeking clarity and alignment

It’s especially helpful when you feel

It’s especially helpful when you feel

Disconnected from your purpose

Unsure how to articulate your story

Ready to grow into a new chapter

Overwhelmed

Stuck or uncertain

What you walk away with

What you walk away with

After one session, you’ll leave with

A coherent story of who you are and why you lead

A coherent story of who you are and why you lead

A clearer sense of direction

A clearer sense of direction

A detailed narrative map you can revisit yearly

A detailed narrative map you can revisit yearly

A leadership identity statement

A leadership identity statement

Language you can use in communication, strategy, and team alignment

Language you can use in communication, strategy, and team alignment

Renewed confidence and groundedness

Renewed confidence and groundedness

Leaders describe the experience as

Leaders describe the experience as

  • Grounding

    uncluttered

  • clarifying

    surprisingly emotional (in a good way)

  • “it finally makes sense now”

Format & practical details

Duration

90 minutes

Format

Online or in-person

Follow-up

Optional reflection document + one-on-one check-in

Includes

Worksheets, narrative map, leadership story template

Ready to clarify your story?

If you want clarity, connection, and

confidence in your leadership — start with

your story.

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