Emily Koolen

Emily is a Leadership Coach & Consultant with extensive experience in multiple, global sectors with a passion for growing businesses, teams, and leaders in new, innovative, and human ways. She has proven capabilities and demonstrated success partnering and advising executives and communities with an emphasis on future ways to work, transformative leadership, and real culture development.

Emily has over 10 years of coaching experience supporting leaders and teams through change, personal transformation, and leadership challenges. She is experienced in individual leaders from emerging leaders to C-Suite Executives as well as teams in conflict, change and who are creating or combining organisational cultures and environments (such as mergers & acquisitions). She’s been an active volunteer coaching women to empowerment, career transitions, new leaders, and those transitioning back into the workplace from parental leave, education, and more.

She creates meaningful experiences, journeys , and interventions (in-person, virtual, and blended) that promote curiosity and learning deeper, personal, and transformative ways. Client groups include intact teams, cross-functional and multi-national teams of all sizes. Focus is always on participant-centered experiences where diversity and challenge are paramount and the space is held to allow for optimal engagement. Emily is very experienced creating own, custom content and/or partnering with others in order to meet the needs of the audience and learners.
Experienced as a keynote speaker who merges humour, thinking, and calls to action to audiences of all shapes and sizes.

Working as a trusted partner with clients and stakeholders, her focus is to analyse what is needed, diagnose deep, sustainable strategies and any barriers to success and then be hands-on in implementing lasting change in structure, culture, and organizational growth.

She has a global experience in various sectors: Innovation/Venture Capital, Software (various including FinTech), Global Pharmaceuticals, Consulting, E-Commerce, Mobile Application, Global Engineering/Transportation, FMCG, Logistics, Hospitality, Real Estate, Managed Services, Legal, Government.