The hardest part of coaching leaders is finding a place to stand. The problem with being a coach is that we want to solve problems, to fix things. The truth is that clients always bring their solutions with them.
My work is not to provide answers. It is to listen and to ask the right questions. I hold a place steady so that what a client knows can come into view.
When a client succeeds, the capacity is always theirs, and what they reached was theirs to reach all along.
René Anant Feddersen
Executive and entrepreneur coach, facilitation trainer, based in Chiang Mai, working across Thailand and Southeast Asia in English, Thai and German.
Entrepreneur, leadership coach, and transformational facilitator with multicultural fluency across Western and Asian business contexts. René was born in Thailand and has lived and worked in Europe and the United States, and spent 40 years of life in Southeast Asia (predominantly Thailand). He brings intellectual sharpness and enrolment energy that opens minds and shifts perspectives, with a persistent focus on setting and achieving big goals.
works
The coaching draws on direct operating experience. It is built for leaders working in Southeast Asia's cross-cultural environments — where a decision, a relationship, or a handover has to work across two languages and two different ways of doing business.
Native-speaker fluency in English, Thai and German means both sides are understood in the language they think in, and in the cultural background they come from. For an organisation placing a coach with its leaders, this is the real difference: the coaching is native to both cultures.
and approach
30 years of business experience covering startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. 10 years of facilitation training and coaching.
Every engagement is private. What is discussed between a leader and the coach stays there.