An initial conversation
with the sponsor
We clarify your context, expectations and what you would like to change. We also explore your role in the team’s dynamics.
Leaders · Teams · Collaboration
Think, decide
and act together.
As your business grows and the pace increases, you may feel you have to carry everything. I help you and your team find clarity and space to move forward together.
My mission: create the conditions for lasting success for your team and every member, bringing together performance, wellbeing and the enjoyment of working together.
Team and executive coaching · Paris and internationally · English / French
ICF PCC · EMCC-ACCREDITED TEAM COACH1,500+ COACHING HOURS · EN / FRA SYSTEMIC & INTERNATIONAL APPROACH
Sound familiar?
So much effort.
Yet things still feel stuck.
You see the tension, the tiredness, the projects that aren’t moving. You’re doing your best, and so is your team. But where do you even begin?
- We work late. And we’re still behind.How am I supposed to be in five meetings at once? The days overflow, we work late… and deadlines still keep slipping.
- That’s not my problem.On shared projects, everyone has their own priorities. Getting a helping hand becomes a project in itself.
- Who’s actually making the decision?We discuss it in one meeting. Then in the next. Somehow, it all ends up back with you.
- My door is open. But…Nobody brings you the difficult subjects. Or people come in all day long. When do you get time to think, let alone do any strategic work?
- People are running on empty.Fatigue is setting in and sick leave is increasing. You’re worried about your people and what happens next.
- And at night, my mind won’t switch off.Everything feels urgent and you feel you’re losing your grip. It’s hard to sleep when you feel alone carrying it all.
- I ask for ideas. The room goes quiet.You invite everyone to contribute, but nobody speaks up. Why isn’t anyone stepping forward? You can’t come up with every idea, make every decision and carry it all yourself.
Sometimes a short conversation is enough to see things more clearly and find a possible first step. A moment to breathe, regain perspective… and leave with a little less work on your mind.
Team coaching · Codir · Comex
Develop how
you work
together.
Team coaching focuses on your real challenges: the decisions you need to make, the relationships you need to build and the issues you need to address.
We work on the conversations your business needs to move forward, including the difficult ones. So everyone can contribute, responsibilities are shared and you can rebuild confidence in the team’s ability to act.
Book an introductory call · 30 minAn initial conversation
An approach
shaped around your team
We agree on objectives and how we will work together. Depending on your needs, the process may begin with executive coaching or combine individual and team work.
Experiment,
observe, adjust
Through team sessions, facilitation or offsites, the work carries into everyday practice, with concrete commitments and time to review progress.
My mission
Create the conditions for the team
and every member to succeed.
Understand yourself, others and the dynamics of the group, to support lasting performance and wellbeing. Leadership is expressed through behaviour, not just a title: taking initiative, listening and helping others move forward. We strengthen each person’s ability to step back, choose their response and act on what is within their influence.
Understand yourself
Recognise your reactions, habits and impact to broaden your choices.
Understand others
Explore different perspectives, clarify expectations and make differences a resource.
Understand the group
Explore the team’s “hidden life”: unwritten rules, informal roles and unspoken issues.
See differently → Experiment → Adjust together
Eleanor Baker
Business experience. An open mind. A focus on the whole team.
During fifteen years in management at Chanel and Hermès, I experienced the complexity of cross-functional and international projects: many stakeholders, each with their own priorities, and decisions to build together. At Hermès, I also helped my department navigate substantial growth. How do you move forward when everyone has good reasons for wanting something different? And find something better than a compromise that leaves everyone… equally dissatisfied? Those experiences inspired me to help leaders and teams develop solutions they can get behind.
A professional coach since 2017, I draw on more than 1,500 hours of coaching in English and French and 25 years of facilitation and training. I bring listening, energy, humour and the courage to ask challenging questions, within a systemic, solution-focused approach. Serious work does not require a serious face at all times.
British and based in France since 1998, I pay particular attention to differences in culture, professional background and personality — and the possibilities they create.
I completed my initial professional coaching training and certification with Erickson International in 2017–2018. I still collaborate with several peers I met during that learning journey.
Professional development, ongoing learning
My training.
The approaches that inspire me.
These training programmes and approaches inform my practice. I draw on them to suit your context and help you observe, question, decide and act together.
My professional credentials
ICF PCC
Professional Certified Coach · 2024
EMCC ITCA
Individual Team Coaching Accreditation
Practitioner · 2022
Training and approaches
Solution-focused coaching
My initial professional coach training and certification. An approach that continues to inform how I ask questions and help people draw on their resources.
Erickson International · 2017–2018
Systemic team coaching
Gateway in 2021, then Practitioner in 2022: a fully international programme with Peter Hawkins, exploring the team in relation to its wider environment.
Global Team Coaching Institute · Badge shown: Team Coaching Foundations — Certified Coach
Self-awareness and relationships
Will Schutz’s approach informs how I explore people’s place in a group, openness and the relationships that support cooperation.
The Human Element · Practitioner · 2025
Understanding how we work
A resource for discussing behavioural preferences and adapting interactions, without confining people to categories.
AEC DISC · Certification · 2026
Team Psychological Safety
Psychological safety
Creating conditions in which people can voice a question, disagreement or difficulty and learn together. Informed by Amy Edmondson’s work.
Team Psychological Safety · Certified Practitioner · 2023
Learning together
Co-development and Appreciative Inquiry
Drawing on experience, strengths and different perspectives to question a real situation and experiment with new ways of acting.
Learning together · Methods selected to suit your needs
I regularly draw on complementary methods, including Action Learning and drivers from Transactional Analysis. The drivers were developed by Taibi Kahler, who also created the Process Communication Model (Process Com). Depending on your needs, I may also use TC360. These resources remain in service of your situation and the objectives we agree together.
A professional framework you can trust
Ethics and confidentiality
Confidential from our first conversation
Our conversations are confidential, from the initial contact through to the end of the engagement. We clarify the confidentiality framework and its limits at the outset, in line with the ICF Code of Ethics.
When an organisation sponsors the coaching, we agree together what may be shared, with whom and how. Individual and collective coaching spaces are clearly distinguished.
Ongoing professional development
After first gaining the ICF ACC credential, I obtained the PCC (Professional Certified Coach) credential in 2024. Renewal is required every three years, keeping me engaged in continuing education and reflection on my practice. My next renewal is due in 2027.
Continuing education and supervision support my practice, helping me question my approach and develop my skills.
Professional engagement · ICF
Working together.
Learning together.
Broadening perspectives.
Within the International Circle of ICF France, I help organise around three professional development events each year, as part of a seven-person volunteer team.
This involvement brings me into regular contact with international coaches, creating opportunities to exchange perspectives and maintain a professional network spanning different cultures, backgrounds and approaches.
7 volunteers≈ 3 events per year350+international coaches
in the Circle
in the Circle
Themes of events I have helped organise
- Neuroscience in coaching
- Embodiment in coaching
- Vortex: a strategic decision-making tool
- Photolanguage in coaching
My contribution is to organising these events as part of a volunteer team.
Complementary ways of working
Step back.
Develop your leadership.
Your expertise has brought you this far. As your role evolves, trying to solve everything yourself can become exhausting. Coaching offers a confidential space to develop your leadership, draw on the talent around you and find more room to act.
- Clarify priorities and choices
- Delegate with confidence and develop autonomy
- Address tensions with greater confidence
- Set a direction without carrying all the answers
Engagement cannot be imposed. We work on the trust, meaning and room to contribute that help people choose to get involved.
Let’s discuss your situationThe greatest contribution of a leader is to make others leaders.
Simon Sinek
Create the conditions
for dialogue.
I also offer facilitation, team offsites, peer learning groups and management development workshops.
These formats bring different perspectives together and create space to experiment with real situations. We seek a balance of stimulation, challenge and enjoyment in learning, in service of your objectives.
“The best solutions rarely emerge from a single perspective.”
Testimonials and references
What clients
take away.
Feedback shared by teams I have coached over six months to one year. Identities are withheld to respect confidentiality. Translated from French.
Collective coaching · 1 year
Growing collaboration
What most transformed the way we work was not just acquiring new skills, but gaining a better understanding of our differences and complementary strengths. The coaching strengthened trust, made relationships smoother and developed a real sense of shared responsibility. Today, the team collaborates with greater maturity, mutual support and commitment.
Changes described
Stronger trust · Mutual support · Shared responsibility
Collective coaching · 1 year
Connecting individual and team development
The strength of this coaching lies in connecting individual development with collective transformation. By working on skills, real situations and interactions between managers at the same time, Eleanor helped strengthen consistency in management, the quality of dialogue and the teams’ ability to address the organisation’s challenges together.
Changes described
Management consistency · Dialogue · Shared challenges
Collective coaching · 6 months
Encouraging initiative and engagement
We worked not on additional management techniques, but on the conditions that truly enable a team to engage. The managers left with a shared understanding of motivation, a greater ability to encourage initiative and concrete actions to develop trust and collaboration in their teams.
Changes described
Shared understanding of motivation · Initiative · Concrete actions
Leaders, managers and teams supported within…
Technology & innovation
Dataiku · Septeo · Vinted Go · Ubisoft
Finance & insurance
CFM · Amundi · Matmut · Crédit Agricole
Consulting & industry
Abylsen · Equancy · 4CAD Group · Sanef
Retail, healthcare & education
Galeries Lafayette · Cooper Consumer Health · ESSEC
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Consulting & digital services
4CAD Group · Abylsen · Altares · Arcane · Equancy · FGS Global · Wefy
Technology & innovation
Dataiku · Gourmey · Graitec · Homa Games · Orange · Septeo · Swan · Ubisoft · Vinted Go · Waat · Work With Island
Industry & infrastructure
Dehon · Maïsadour – Groupe Coopératif · Sanef
Healthcare
Cooper Consumer Health
Retail, hospitality & entertainment
AEG Presents France · Comexposium · Galeries Lafayette · Hermès · Jacadi · Le Collectionist · Qérys · Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa
Finance & insurance
Amundi · CFM · Crédit Agricole · HDI · Matmut · MMA · Relyens · Sofinnova Partners · SWEN Capital Partners
Public sector & education
France Travail · ESSEC · Rennes School of Business · OPCO Commerce · US governmental agency
Some of the organisations in which I have supported leaders, managers and teams. The anonymised testimonials above are not attributed to these organisations.
A network alongside you
Complementary
strengths.
For your challenges.
My network has grown through my international career, my training with Erickson International and my involvement in the coaching community. Some of these collaborations date back to my initial training. Depending on your needs, I work with trusted coaches and facilitators from different cultures and countries to support a leadership team, several management levels or relationships between teams.
Challenges also arise between teams: conflicting priorities, information that does not flow and unspoken expectations. We explore these interfaces with you.
Together, we clarify roles and ways of working to offer you a coherent approach.
Let’s discuss your organisation’s needsArticles & perspectives
Keep the conversation going.
Contributions on leadership, collaboration and team life.
Selected by the magazine’s commercial representative for her expertise in international coaching, Eleanor Baker is among the six coaching organisations featured for the “Coaching & accompagnement du dirigeant” section of Inspir’, the MEDEF Paris magazine. Through this partnership, she shares her perspective on collaboration and change in multicultural teams.
Inspir’ · Preview · November 2026 issue
What if we needed to relearn how to work as a team?
How can leaders and teams question their habits, work through differences and have the conversations they need to move forward together?
Interview by Matthieu Binder · Preview · English translation available.
Read the interview
Inspir’ · August / September 2026 · Page 327
Strategy is not enough
How can teams turn diversity into collaboration and action? In this interview, I explore alignment, psychological safety and the leader’s role in organisational change.
Interview by Robert Dessi · Partnership · English translation available.
Read the interview View the magazine · p. 327Publications
Connect with me on LinkedIn
On LinkedIn, I share reflections and experiences on leadership, collaboration and team dynamics. Join the conversation there; this website explains how we can work together.
Events & encounters
Connecting with
the business community.
My participation in the Rencontre des entrepreneurs de France at Roland-Garros in August 2026.
A moment from the event’s photo booth.
Let’s start with a conversation
What would you like
to change in your team?
You do not need to have it all worked out. You can bring an unclear situation, a tension or the feeling that you are carrying too much on your own.
In a free, confidential 30-minute conversation, we step back from your situation and explore a possible first step. It is also a chance to see whether you feel comfortable working with me.
coaching@eleanorbaker.com · Coaching in English and French
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